Co-Founder & CTO, Tija Labs
Bruce Nduko
Founder-engineer building AI productivity tools for Africa's next billion workers. I design, build, and ship end-to-end — web, mobile, payments, AI.
19 years old · Nairobi, Kenya · East Africa
The main thing
Tija Labs
tijalabs.com“Turn Time Into Value”
A Kenya-based AI product lab building productivity apps for young, urban Africans.
My role
Co-Founder & CTO — I own product, engineering, infrastructure, and shipping.
Co-founder
Jeremiah Rioba — People & Operations
Selected work
Things I've shipped
Certifications
Always learning
Full-Stack Engineer
140 hrs · Sep 2026
Front-End Engineer
115 hrs · Aug 2026
Back-End Engineer
105 hrs · Aug 2026
Data Scientist: Machine Learning Specialist
90 hrs · Jun 2026
DevOps Engineer
75 hrs · Apr 2026
Data Analyst
70 hrs · Jun 2026
Right now
Live status
Ship log
Dated milestones
2026
AWS Trainium Frontier Competition — ranked 14th
Co-designed ML models and custom kernels on AWS Trainium2 chips for AWS Annapurna Labs' Frontier Competition, ranking 14th on the Phase 1 public leaderboard.
2026
Qwen Cloud Hackathon
Wrote build specs for Productivity Passport, a SHA Claims Pre-Check Agent, and a Skill Verification Agent — all targeting Kenya's informal economy.
2026
Build with Gemini XPRIZE
Shipped ten original productivity product concepts, including Stakes, Sema Kazi, Alongside, Reflow, and Productivity Passport.
Earlier
LeverageX live on Google Play
Took LeverageX through Play Console closed testing to full production access.
View projectTija Labs Billing Engine built
Shipped the company's own subscription invoicing and billing system — Node.js/Express, SQLite, Pesapal API v3, PDF invoicing, automated email.
View projectAbout
I'm a 19-year-old founder-engineer based in Nairobi, Kenya, studying BSc Computer Science at Zetech University (Class of 2029), and building AI productivity tools for Africa's next billion workers.