Product builder. Designer-engineer. Founder. Cape Town, via Kampala.
I co-founded and run PiCortex, a multi-product SaaS platform for SMMEs across Southern and East Africa. One place for CRM, POS, invoicing, and inventory.
Alongside PiCortex, I've served as fractional Lead Frontend Engineer and Design System Architect at TruckFuelNet (ranked #81 Fastest Growing African Companies 2024), delivering 6 production applications and establishing the Flutter design system. Earlier in my career, I worked as Product Manager at HPE Aruba (Fortune 100) and as a Software Engineer at Yoco, where I helped build the POS and Capital products serving 400,000+ merchants.
I consult for enterprise clients through Bora Growth Partners, with engagements at Mastercard Foundation, Vodacom, SAB Miller, and NYDA on digital transformation.
I'm a designer-engineer: I care as much about how a product looks and feels as how it's engineered underneath. Most of what I build is for this continent: fintech that works for African merchants, design systems that ship on local devices, platforms that run on unreliable networks. I build here because this is home, and because the problems are worth solving.
"Steven is ridiculously smart, kind and talented. No matter how tense a meeting, Steven makes sure everyone leaves with a smile."
"The questions he would ask as we built software products were incredibly insightful, and they often resulted in us making conscious changes or additions to the features we were building."
"Steven is that very rare professional that you find who is both brilliant at what he does and an incredible person to work with too. My only regret is that he is not a permanent part of our team."
In Summary
- Location
- Cape Town, South Africa
- From
- Uganda
- Role
- Co-Founder & CTO, PiCortex
- Education
- PGDip Management Practice (UCT GSB)
- BCom IS (UCT)
- Interests
- Meditation, hiking, barbecuing, crafting UIs
- Contact
- stevensajja@gmail.com