Evanson Biwott · Nairobi, Kenya
I build software
for a living, and
for the fun of it.
I spent a decade co-founding and scaling a logistics startup across Africa. These days I build logistics, trade and payment platforms made to scale across the continent, and write about tech, life, and whatever else is loud in my head.
- 14years deep in the craft
- 10of them scaling one startup
- 10+African countries reached
the mantra
do it scared,
do it tired,
just do it.
the work
Things I have built
that real people use.
FMCG distribution
AI super-distributor
An AI-powered super-distributor for informal retail in East Africa: the dukas, kiosks and mama mbogas. It predicts demand, aggregates fragmented suppliers, and opens working capital to vendors the formal system ignored.
Last-mile delivery
Logistics platform
The whole delivery stack for African cities (orders, drivers, dispatch and live tracking), built end to end as the only developer on it.
Fleet & transport
Management system
A TMS for operators who run real fleets: trips, vehicles, invoicing and a Flutter driver app that keeps working when the signal does not.
+ 3 more on the work page.
the writing
Fresh from the
notebook.
How this site is built (and why it's so boring)
Astro, a few hundred lines of CSS, and a deploy I never think about. The why matters more than the what.
read itKnowing what not to fix
There's a typo in the name of an app I shipped. I'm never fixing it, on purpose. A field guide to the most senior column on a tech-debt list: don't.
read itThe idempotency key that did absolutely nothing
Three independent defenses against double-charging a customer. A user tapped three times and got billed three times. All three defenses were present, correct, and useless at once.
read it