Ship, then polish
Momentum beats a perfect first draft. Get it live, then make it good.
about · the long version
Hi — I'm Evanson.
I make things,
and then I break them.
Fourteen years of writing software — long enough to hold strong opinions and carry the scars that earned them. I co-founded Sendy and gave it a decade, scaling it across Africa; these days I build logistics, trade and payment platforms for the continent. This is the longer story — plus the bits that have nothing to do with code.
how I got here
Fourteen years,
badly summarised.
- 2013
where it started
An internship turned into my first real job — building payment and ticketing systems for a courier and bus company. The code was rough. I was completely hooked.
- 2014
we built Sendy
A few of us co-founded Sendy. I built version one — and it won its category at Pivot East 2014. We launched with three riders and a great deal of nerve.
- 10 yrs
the Sendy decade
Ten years and one absolute rollercoaster. I came in green and somehow left a CTO. We grew a three-rider hustle into something moving goods across the continent — it broke, we fixed it, it broke again, and I would not trade a second of it.
- now
building for the continent
These days I build logistics, trade and payment platforms made to scale across Africa. Most of that work lives under NDA, so you will not find client names here. Still shipping. Still in Nairobi.
how I actually work
Four rules I keep
coming back to.
Cut the ceremony
Fewer meetings, fewer confirmations, fewer rituals. More building.
Build for one bar
If it does not work on a patchy connection in a real city, it does not work.
Show the work
Sketch the plan, share it, then build it. Surprises are for birthdays.
the non-code facts
Life beyond
the laptop.
- based in
- Nairobi, Kenya
- writing code since
- 2013
- studied
- Software Engineering, Kenyatta University
- speaks
- English & Swahili
- these days
- Building logistics, trade and payment platforms that scale across Africa
- off-keyboard, find me
- Walking into unknown places, camping, off-roading
- cheerfully mediocre at
- Washing utensils, sleeping early, and remembering where the salt shaker is
the toolbox
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Python
- Go
- PHP
- Node
- Express
- Fastify
- Vue
- React
- Angular
- Flutter
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- DigitalOcean
- RabbitMQ
…but tools are just tools. The job is the problem, never the stack.