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, our team in the AI4H (AI for Health) buildathon: a Swahili, offline phone companion that helps a new mother check her own and her baby's danger signs in the weeks after birth. Selected among the top 10 teams.
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 →A 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...