Data, ML and AI, built into real systems.
I'm Mhina. I build intelligent software at the intersection of computer engineering, data science, and AI.
- NM-AIST
- MUST
- Omnexus PSH
- Tunza Nasi
Featured work
All work →Mama Salama — an offline Swahili companion for maternal & newborn safety
I lead Mama Salama, a Swahili, offline phone companion that helps a new mother check her own and her baby's danger signs in the weeks after birth. First place at Pitch II of the AI4Health Local AI Buildathon with 77.67 out of 100, and through to the Grand Finale on 12 November 2026.
Real-time crypto analytics pipeline (streaming + ML)
My MSc Big Data Analytics capstone: an end-to-end streaming pipeline over live Binance data for 5 cryptocurrencies — Kafka → Spark → MongoDB → a live Streamlit dashboard — with a Random Forest model predicting short-term price direction.
Tunza Nasi — a pharmacy management platform for Tanzania
As CTO and Director of Technology & Digital Health at Omnexus Pharma Solutions Hub, I single-handedly engineered Tunza Nasi — a batch-aware, multi-tenant pharmacy management platform trusted by 25+ pharmacies across Tanzania, each on its own isolated, encrypted database.
Thoughts & writing
All posts →Mama Salama placed first at Pitch II
An offline Swahili danger sign companion for new mothers, built for the AI4Health Local AI Buildathon 2026. Ten teams pi...
Sep 2026A week at the AgriFin Hackathon, Arusha
Five days on agricultural finance for smallholder farmers, convened and judged by a team of NMB Bank and NM-AIST. We too...
Jul 2026A week at Data Science Africa 2026, Makerere
What I took home from the Data Science Africa (DSA) 2026 summer school and workshop at Makerere University, Kampala — mo...