Portrait of Kaiza Ilomo

Professional Experience

Kaiza Ilomo’s professional experience: research scientist (data engineering) at Ifakara Health Institute, software engineer and co-founder at Kidoncho Systems, and data and software engineering internships.

Research Scientist (Data Engineering)

Ifakara Health Institute (IHI), Tanzania | 2025–present

  • Lead the MoDD Africa project’s Evidence Synthesis team, collating and curating climatology, entomology, epidemiology, topography, hydrology, anthropology and demography datasets for vector-borne disease modelling.
  • Created and maintain the R package for MoDD Africa’s Evidence Synthesis tools.

Software Engineer & Co-founder

Kidoncho Systems Company Limited, Tanzania | 2025–present

  • Developed Aghalabu, an AI-powered, multi-platform (Android, iOS, web, Windows, Linux) rental property management system built with Flutter, now in production on Google Play.
  • Built its AI contract-terms feature: AI drafts the terms, and the landlord reviews them before they go into the contract.

Data Engineering Intern

trendsAf Limited, Rwanda | 2024

  • Led the internship team that designed and developed the backend of a web application for capturing, storing, processing and exchanging food logistics data among food producers, processors and distributors.

Data Science-cum-Software Engineering Intern

Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania | 2021

Software Engineering Intern

Singo Africa Limited, Tanzania | 2020–2021

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” — attributed to Leonardo da Vinci

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