Buildasoft Ltd

Julien's tech journey began when he was eight years old, driven by an insatiable curiosity for computers in a place where most people his age didn't have one. Despite early challenges and traditional expectations about what a "real career" should look like, that curiosity never faltered.

He grew into a self-taught software engineer with over six years of professional experience, spanning healthcare systems, government platforms, tourism technology, and NGO programmes. Each sector taught a different lesson about how software actually meets users — from low-bandwidth clinics to offline field data collection.

Before founding Buildasoft, Julien held senior engineering roles at Andela and TrustStamp. At Andela, he worked inside one of Africa's most influential distributed engineering teams, learning how world-class remote engineering organizations are built. At TrustStamp, he shipped infrastructure that handles biometric identity at scale — the kind of system where mistakes are expensive.

Buildasoft Ltd grew out of a simple frustration: too many African institutions were running critical operations on brittle, half-finished, or imported software that nobody truly owned. Building a Kigali-based engineering team that could change that — a team that combined senior engineering with deep local context — felt like a problem worth committing to.

Today, Julien leads a small team dedicated to that mission. He still writes code most days, still reviews every architectural decision, and still personally answers the first email from every new prospective client.

When he's not building software, you'll find him writing about engineering on X or mentoring younger engineers who are working their way into the industry the same way he did.