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About Candidate
Roina Atieno Ochieng is an accomplished Senior Technical Product Manager with extensive experience in leading product development, strategy, and scaling across diverse sectors. Currently at Kasha, she has successfully enhanced customer satisfaction and enterprise revenue through strategic SaaS product development and cross-country product localization. At Food For Education, she significantly improved product performance and delivery efficiency, impacting over 550,000 children. Her tenure at Microsoft saw her drive the end-to-end development of SDKs and CLI tools, leveraging customer insights to create impactful roadmaps. Roina also excelled at Sendy by optimizing resource management and improving app reliability. Her early career at Africa’s Talking was marked by remarkable growth in developer engagement and platform expansion across multiple African countries. Roina is adept in Agile methodologies, stakeholder management, and data-driven decision-making, making her a valuable asset in any tech-driven environment.
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Leading the customer driven product roadmap and product development process for Kasha's Enterprise and Retail products across Kenya, Rwanda and South Africa. Developing SaaS products for large pharmaceutical manufacturers and B2B and B2C retail applications for both pharmacies and FMCG.
Driving impact within product development of the Tap2Eat product at Food For Education. Co-leading the tech and product teams at Food For Education to scale the feeding program to deliver the tech product that enables the feeding program and enable internal stakeholders to use the platform to make data driven decisions.
Innovating on improving the developer experience on the Microsoft Graph developer tools: Microsoft Graph CLI, Microsoft Graph JavaScript SDK, Microsoft Graph Python SDK, Microsoft Graph PHP SDK and Kiota, Microsoft Graphs Code Generation tool to convert Open API specifications to SDKs.
Key focus on scalability, stability and security of the core architecture powering the logistics platform. Led and developed the technical roadmap for the core infrastructure supporting more than 250k users across 4 African countries.
Talk to me about how Africa's Talking is working for and with developers to bridge gaps by democratizing infrastructure for tech solutions. Actively head hunting for technical and non-technical talent and developing programs to build an inclusive, diverse and positively impacting team across Africa. Building scalable, sustainable and high developer communities across Africa, driving up the usage and adoption of the communications API products.Building scalable, sustainable and high developer communities across Africa, driving up the usage and adoption of the communications API products.
In charge of organizing community events for over 500 members of our developer ecosystem who span from beginner level developers to industry experts. Improved student participation in the group's program by 84% and increased female attendance by 124% upon entry as the lead organizer. Designed an effective hand-over shadowing training program for handing over the lead organizer to the colead for the group to enable continuation of the group's program despite leadership changeovers. Put together a specific rubric for integrating women techmakers events and general events to improve female participation. Study and deliver training content to the community and making the content relevant to the community.
Worked on 5 projects with distributed teams across 3 regions to build scalable backend Java infrastructure. During this time I worked on projects related to human resource management systems, Edtech systems, Meditech Systems and open source projects. I've worked with small teams of just 3 people to bigger and more distributed teams of uptown 20 developers. In the team settings, I also often played the role of scrum master.
Worked on 5 projects with distributed teams across 3 regions to build scalable backend Java infrastructure. During this time I worked on projects related to human resource management systems, Edtech systems, Meditech Systems and open source projects. I've worked with small teams of just 3 people to bigger and more distributed teams of uptown 20 developers. In the team settings, I also often played the role of scrum master.