Founder and technologist in Brisbane, working on education, mentorship, and digital tools for refugee and African-Australian communities.
Roles
- External advisor, Multicultural Advisory Committee, Ipswich City Council
- Leadership team, Networking African-Australians
- Founder, Mentors Outreach
- Founder, Visit Dzaleka and Dzaleka Digital Heritage
Background
I was born in Burundi and grew up in Malawi, where I lived in a UNHCR refugee camp. I came to Australia in 2015 after being granted asylum by the Australian government.
At Networking African-Australians I help run homework clubs across Melbourne and regional Victoria, a mental health mentoring program, and leadership camps. In April 2025 we took 34 African-Australian students to Mount Eliza for three days on confidence, teamwork, mental health, and cultural identity. In September 2026, Ipswich City Council appointed me as one of six external advisors, chosen from 34 applicants, to its Multicultural Advisory Committee. In that role I advise council on planning, policy, and services that affect the city’s multicultural communities.
I’ve been starting things since 2016, when I founded Hungry Innovators, a non-profit for STEM education. In August 2019 I started Mentors Outreach in Brisbane. It is now mentoring program management software that organisations use to run applications, matching, sessions, safeguarding, and reporting, and Networking African-Australians runs its Homework Club on it. From 2018 to 2019 I hosted the Transition Phase Podcast, interviewing Brisbane entrepreneurs and creatives about how they built their work.
Much of my recent work points back to Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi. Dzaleka Online publishes news, stories, and service information from the camp; it recorded 17,952 active users in 2025, and in July 2026 I released its iPhone app. Visit Dzaleka runs guided tours led by residents trained as certified guides. Dzaleka Digital Heritage archives the camp’s cultural history. I’m also building DzalekaPay, which lets businesses and organisations in the camp take mobile money and card payments through payment links, tickets, storefronts, and fundraising pages.
I write software, too. I maintain four open-source projects: ATO Lens, a local-first tool for making sense of Australian tax records; Capsule, a control plane for running coding agents under explicit policy; Capsule App, a desktop workspace where those agents’ diffs, approvals, and checkpoints live on your own machine; and UpDeck, an unofficial dashboard for Up bank that works out payday, subscriptions, and spending on your device.
Away from work I read a lot and keep summaries of the books that stay with me. I also keep an archive of sermons, and I make generative art with P5.js.
The journey page lists all of this by year. You can reach me by email or on Twitter.