About us

A software studio built in Kigali, working with the world.

Homocentric Group was founded on a simple bet: that world-class engineering can — and should — be built in Africa, for Africa, and exported. Today our teams ship production systems for banks, telcos, governments and global startups.

Headquarters

Kigali, Rwanda

A city that runs on fiber, ambition and afternoon rain.

10+
Specialists
9
Countries
Values

What we refuse to compromise.

Craft

Software is read more than it's written. We optimize for the next engineer, not the next deadline.

Candor

We tell clients what we believe — even when it costs us the contract.

Compounding

Every project leaves the codebase, the team and the institution stronger.

Mission & Vision

The compass and the horizon.

Two questions sit on every wall in our office. What are we doing today? And where is the work taking us? The first is our mission. The second, our vision.

Mission

Engineer the digital infrastructure Africa is choosing to build for itself — and ship it on time.

  1. 01

    Build for production, not for pitch.

    We deploy what we design. Every demo runs against the same database the customers will.

  2. 02

    Hire from here, ship to anywhere.

    Our engineers, designers and analysts come from Kigali, Lagos and Accra — and ship to clients on three continents.

  3. 03

    Outlast the engagement.

    Code, runbooks and decisions are documented so the team that inherits the system never starts from scratch.

Vision

An African engineering firm whose work is quoted, not just contracted — at home and abroad.

  • Horizon · 2027

    A continental engineering bench.

    Operating teams in five African capitals, capable of staffing any production engagement in 14 days or less.

  • Horizon · 2030

    Civic infrastructure as a portfolio.

    Trusted to operate the rails — payments, identity, health records — that institutions depend on.

  • Horizon · 2035

    An export, not an outpost.

    Software built in Africa, exported to the world, with the surplus reinvested in the talent that built it.

Story

A short timeline.

From a four-person studio in Nyarutarama to a regional firm with global clients.

  1. 2019

    Founded in Kigali by a team of returning Rwandan engineers.

  2. 2021

    First regional clients across East Africa; opened the data practice.

  3. 2023

    Expanded into managed cloud and 24/7 SRE for financial-sector clients.

  4. 2026

    40+ practitioners; clients across 9 countries on three continents.

The bench

The people who actually type the code.

No generic stock photography. No anonymous “team” page. The names below ship the software, lead the meetings and answer the 2 a.m. pager — for clients on three continents.

Headcount by practice
  • Leadership03
  • Engineering03
  • Data & AI02
  • Design01
  • Operations01
Leadership
Leadership/7y

Aline Uwase

Head of Engineering

Builds calm teams that ship loud results.Aline runs the engineering practice. Before Homocentric she led platform teams at two Pan-African fintechs and contributed to the Rwandan instant-payments rails. She still reviews more PRs than anyone else on the team.

Distributed systemsMentorshipCalm under fire
Kigali, RW
Leadership/7y

Patrick Nkurunziza

Co-founder · Managing Partner

Sells the work he'd want to receive.Patrick co-founded Homocentric Group after a decade in the City and Lagos. He spends most of his week with clients and the rest defending the engineers' calendar from meetings.

StrategyBankingPublic sector
Kigali, RW
Leadership/7y

Claudine Mukamana

Co-founder · Head of Design

Believes a clear interface is a moral position.Claudine leads design across every engagement. She came home from Stockholm in 2018 with a thesis on civic-tech UX and has been refining it on Homocentric projects ever since.

Design systemsCivic UXResearch
Kigali, RW
Practitioners
Engineering/6y

Eric Iradukunda

Principal Engineer

Has read the manual. Twice.

PostgresKubernetesSRE
Kigali, RW
Engineering/5y

Joëlle Mutoni

Senior Full-stack Engineer

Ships product as if she were the customer.

TypeScriptReactGo
Kigali, RW
Engineering/4y

Samuel Okafor

Mobile Engineering Lead

Cares about the bottom 10% of the bandwidth distribution.

React NativeKotlinOffline-first
Lagos, NG
Data & AI/5y

Ines Kayitesi

Lead Data Engineer

Treats every pipeline like it's headed to court.

SnowflakedbtAirflow
Kigali, RW
Data & AI/2y

David Mensah

Applied AI Engineer

Productionises models without the demo magic.

LLMsMLOpsscikit-learn
Accra, GH
Design/4y

Noëlla Keza

Senior Product Designer

Turns research into interfaces that feel inevitable.

Design systemsResearchAccessibility
Kigali, RW
Operations/6y

Sarah Uwizera

Head of Delivery

Owns the calendar so the engineers can own the code.

DeliveryHiringOperations
Kigali, RW
Open seat · always

We hire when we meet the right person — not when we run out of capacity.

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Rooted in Rwanda. Working with the world.

Our engineers contribute to open source, mentor in local universities and partner with regional accelerators. We believe the talent that builds the next decade of African software is already here.

KigaliNairobiLagosCairoLondonDubaiBerlinNew York

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