Impact Masters Podcast
The Impact Masters Podcast explores the forces shaping Africa’s technology and innovation ecosystem while connecting them to global tech trends and best practices.
Hosted by technology ecosystem builder Michael Kimathi, the show features authentic conversations with the founders, developers, investors, and thought leaders who are building the future of Africa and influencing the global digital economy.
As the tech landscape shifts toward AI-augmented engineering and globalized talent pools, Impact Masters focuses on tactical, proven frameworks—not theory. We deconstruct the socio-technical challenges of building scalable software, securing venture capital, and leading high-performance engineering teams across emerging and global markets.
Each episode dives into how technology is transforming the way we live, work, and govern, with a focus on:
Software & DevEx: Engineering, developer experience, DevRel, and product design.
Digital Transformation: AI integration and scaling high-performance teams.
The Startup Playbook: Securing venture capital and driving startup growth.
While deeply rooted in Africa’s tech journey, we also unpack global innovations that inspire local impact. We tell authentic stories, preserve Africa’s tech history, share actionable insights, and challenge the status quo: body, mind, and spirit.
If you’re a tech founder, developer, investor, or innovator looking to understand Africa’s digital future while staying plugged into global technology trends, this podcast is your guide.
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Impact Masters Podcast
#26 - SOLOMON OPIO
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This is the story and the journey of Solomon Opio a Lead at The Binary Garage | Uganda Country Lead at Startup Africa Roadtrip | Community Lead, Google Developer Groups (GDG)
He is the Lead and Co-founder at Soltech Digital Solutions a technology company. He leads The Binary Garage's initiative to support technologists and startups to learn, design and build the right products for the right market.
He is also the Uganda Country Lead for Startup Africa Roadtrip, a project born in 2017 with the mission of discovering the East African local ecosystem and sharing professional skills in the fields of digital marketing and venture capital.
For a period of 5 years, he worked for Outbox Technology Hub as a Community Manager and Capacity Development Lead respectively, in charge of training and other activities geared towards growth and skill development for the developer community, start-ups and industry players.
He has also worked as a Systems and Networks administrator at the College of Computing and Information Sciences for a period of 1 year and 3 months.
He is the Google Cloud Developer Community (GDG Cloud) Lead for Kampala, in charge of programs, training, other events and initiatives around Google Cloud technologies in Kampala. Prior to that, I led GDG Kampala for 3 years.
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