Karanja Stanley

Architected and led rollout of AgTech3.0, a national agri-fintech platform integrating wallets, e-vouchers, contract farming, microinsurance, embedded finance, IoT/NDVI analytics and carbon credits, digitizing services for up to 1M farmers and supporting an ATI PPP of 9.5M beneficiaries.

Modernized digital banking services and transitioned legacy SOA to microservices to improve DFS product scalability and enable interoperability (MCo-op Cash).

• Hands on participation in SLDC as a lead software engineer and architecture
• Talent’s recruitment for data science and software Engineering roles
• Leadership and management roles to various teams and team heads
• Mentorship to individuals across the departments
• Products innovation and ownership
• Client engagement and conversion
• Ticket tracking.

Digitized horticulture value-chain payments by implementing wallet and voucher systems and deployed ERP+DFS hybrid solutions using cloud-native microservices to streamline payments and traceability.

Developed ICT infrastructure and a cloud-native ERP integrated with DFS to support agribusiness payments and farm-to-market flows, improving operational payment processing.

• Lead in creation and implementation of Dynamic Data Driven Scoring Engine; designed, developed and deployed an alternative data driven lending platform in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda that enabled financial institutions to lend to their clients using an alternative dynamic data credit scoring-engine. • Headed data crunch for cooperative bank’s mobile-wallet resulting to development of new services a

Led a regional DFS & AgriTech team of 30+ engineers and 10 data scientists across 10+ countries, delivering projects including Rwanda e-Subsidy and Tanzania dairy value-chain solutions that achieved up to 500% yield improvements.

• Retail and Biometric Security Solutions: -I. Lead in development of the most popular retail solution for East Africa (Core-Smart) that led to onboarding more customers in new regions i.e., East Africa, West Africa and Middle East. • Stabilized and optimized the existing retail solutions in the company and a such was able to reduce end of day process from 6hrs to just 6 minutes through refactorin

• Developed and implemented the 1st SMS banking platform in Ethiopia as a country in United (Hibret) bank • Supported development of new payment platform development in Malawi for MalSwitch • Connected several banks to ATMS and cheque clearing systems (Ecobank, ABC bank and Family Bank) • Supported and developed solutions for e-Banking supporting the ISO 8583 financial message brokers, switch skil

Learned commercial software engineering • Developed a blue print document and design for an ERP in the leading horticulture exporter in Kenya • Designed, developed, implemented and supported the companies the ERP

Built farmer outgrower ERP system and digitized payments with SAP integration to streamline grower payments and reporting.

Pursuing a Master of Science in AI & Data Science with focus on machine learning and data-driven solutions for applied problems.

Enrolled in a Postgraduate Certificate program in Artificial Intelligence covering applied AI concepts for business and analytics.

Admitted to a Master of Science program in Biometry/Bioinformatics; enrollment currently deferred.

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Applied Statistics with training in statistical methods and data analysis.

Certified in PRINCE2 project management methodology.