The journey
From a humbling interview tothe path I build now.
Twelve years, one continent, and a single conviction that hardened along the way. Here is the road, year by year.
Learning the craft
- 2013
Software Developer Intern
Softclans · Nairobi
Fresh out of JKUAT with a degree in IT and the quiet certainty that study had made me ready. My first job in the industry.
- 2013
The interview that humbled me
Serianu · Nairobi · December
I sat my first interview at the sharpest security firm in the country and, within a few questions, that certainty was gone. I had a vocabulary. I did not yet have judgment.
- 2014
Cybersecurity Analyst
Serianu · Nairobi
Started at the bottom of the operations centre. Novice in cyber, learning the work the hard way, one incident at a time.
- 2016
Consultant, regional delivery
Serianu · first Botswana engagement
My first work on the ground in Botswana, and the start of delivering security across borders rather than just from a desk.
- 2017 – 2019
Technical Solutions Lead
Serianu · across Africa
Leading detection, response and advisory delivery as the firm's footprint widened across the continent.
From operator to builder
- 2020
The reset
Kenya
COVID sent me back home. A forced pause that turned into a leadership reckoning about what I was really building, and for whom.
- 2021 – 2022
Finding the teaching
I began mentoring one-to-one and noticed the pattern everywhere: the gap African professionals felt was never talent, it was the absence of a path. I decided to build that path.
Botswana and the community
- 2023
Cyber meetups & mentorship webinar
February
Started running cyber meetups and a monthly mentorship webinar, turning private mentoring into something a whole community could climb with.
- 2023
Country Director, Serianu Botswana
September · moved with family
Took the country helm and moved to Botswana: running the operation, the team and the client work end to end.
- 2024
Founder, Ongoza Cyber Hub
OCH
Launched OCH: mentorship, drills, missions and the Schools of Thought, so African talent has a path from day one.
- 2026
Author, The Invisible Expert
& OCH cohort one
The argument in full, and the first full OCH cohort: hundreds of learners on the same climb I once made alone.
- 2025 – 27
MBA (in progress)
Hult International Business School · graduating August 2027
Sharpening the business and leadership edge behind the technical work: strategy, finance and the judgment that lets you scale it.