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Moses Mulwa

Kenyan software engineer Moses Mulwa, 23, has already zig-zagged from Nairobi hackathons to Bloomberg’s London trading floors, leaving a trail of inventive hardware and code. Raised on open-source tutorials, he shot onto Kenya’s tech radar while still an undergraduate, leading the Kenya Space Agency’s nanosatellite software team and proving that orbital payloads could be built for a fraction of typical budgets.

Weeks later he pivoted to earthbound impact, wiring sensor arrays and joystick circuitry into an electric wheelchair prototype that now helps the Association of the Physically Disabled of Kenya cut custom-chair production time by 60 percent. Those feats and the visibility he earned at community meet-ups, drew global recruiters; Bloomberg snapped him up in 2024, tasking him with optimising low-latency market-data pipelines that feed the firm’s iconic terminals.

Mulwa approaches finance infrastructure with the same mission-driven mindset, open-sourcing internal tools where possible and volunteering as a remote mentor for Kenyan robotics clubs after hours. Next he plans to collaborate with the Kenya Space Agency on a follow-up CubeSat focused on climate analytics and is exploring AI-driven assistive devices that can be 3-D printed in rural clinics. His trajectory suggests a guiding principle: innovation travels furthest when it lifts both satellites and societies.

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