About
I've spent most of my career keeping other people's systems running.
Before AI became the conversation, I was building and operating infrastructure behind the scenes: servers, hosting systems, customer operations, uptime, support.
I founded EAC Directory in 2005. It grew into one of Kenya's leading .ke domain registrars. HostAfrica acquired it in December 2022.
In those years I watched the same thing happen again and again. A business puts its domain, its email and its website into someone else's hands. Then one day it cannot get any of it back.
That is not a technology problem. Nothing was broken. The domain simply sat in an account nobody at the business could open, managed by a person who had stopped replying.
Today I am Managing Director for Kenya at HostAfrica. This site is separate from that job. It is where I write down what the work taught me, and where the free tools live.
I also run Ujiajiri, which trains young Kenyans in Linux, DNS, hosting and WordPress so they can earn from those skills. Most of the work described on this site is work a trained freelancer should be doing. I care less about trends than about what actually holds up.
Track record
- Built a hosting business in Kenya from scratch
- Operated for 17 years in a competitive market
- Successfully exited and remained in leadership
- CISA certified (retired) with experience in systems and risk
- Now advising businesses on owning and protecting their digital assets
Start with something concrete
The fastest way to see whether any of this applies to you is to check what your own domain is publishing right now.