Cishahayo Songa Achille

In 2017, inspired by YouTube, I embarked on a journey to learn web development with the dream of creating a platform like YouTube one day. Over the years, I gained extensive knowledge about web technologies leading me to become a software engineer. In 2020, I founded Techinika, a learning platform to help learning institutions monetize and digitize their services and use it to help people learn in their native languages.
Alongside my tech journey, I create content on YouTube and Social Media platforms (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc) to teach Kinyarwanda, my native language and share lessons I learned over the years. This passion led to the formation of a community for Kinyarwanda learners, where I share resources and help non-Kinyarwanda speakers to speak Kinyarwanda.
I love seeing youth taking charge and build solutions, for this reason, I volunteer sometimes to help causes I believe in. This led me to co-founding an organization that is empowering the next generation of TVET students with communication and leadership skills; I volunteered for UNLEASH Rwanda to support 800+ talents to solve real-world problems, I volunteer in different tech communities to bring tech people together, and I have started building the Rwanda Technology Community through Techinika.
In my free time, I enjoy writing, singing (alone), walking, engaging in meaningful discussions, and watching movies and documentaries. Interestingly, I once aspired to become a priest, the universe had a different path for me.