Sammy Oina
Technical Lead at Ultraviolet
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolSammy Oina is a Technical Lead and software engineer from Nairobi with 6 years of experience designing distributed systems, IoT platforms, and privacy-preserving AI using Golang. He currently leads engineering at Ultraviolet and contributes to open-source projects like COCOS (collaborative confidential computing for AI) and Mainflux, blending confidential computing with multi-protocol IoT solutions. As a co-founder of Qualislabs and a former rocket flight-control lead, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with hands-on firmware, PCB design, and cloud-native deployment experience. Sammy holds an MBA and a Mechatronics Engineering degree, and brings a rare cross-disciplinary perspective that connects embedded control systems to scalable cloud architectures.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Nano Degree, Cloud Developer, Nano Degree, Cloud Developer at UdacityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and TechnologyNairobi SchoolMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at United States International University - Africa
English, French, Swahili
Github Skills (64)
messaging10
coap10
lorawan10
mqtt10
distributed-systems10
internet-of-things10
iot-cloud10
iot10
message-broker10
lwm2m10
iot-platform10
lora10
golang10
iiot10
telecom10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
SammyOina/cocos-ai
Oct 2023 - Jul 2026
Cocos AI - Confidential Computing System for AI
Contributions:4 releases, 161 PRs, 849 pushes in 2 years 9 months
aiconfidential-computing
SammyOina/stewart-platform
May 2022 - Aug 2024
Contributions:3 releases, 10 PRs, 118 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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