Roina is a Technical Program Manager at Microsoft where she supports the developer experience work on the Microsoft Graph SDKs. Roina is passionate about product, African developer ecosystem, technical talent. She currently writes about Product, African Feminism, Talent, Scala, Kotlin, Java and Flutter. 

Roina Ochieng previously worked at Sendy, as a Product Manager (Core and Scaling) where she supported a great group of Backend, Frontend and Middleware engineers to build great core infrastructure. At Africa’s Talking, she was a Developer Relations Lead and Program Manager where she was in charge of actively headhunting for technical and non-technical talent and developing programs to build an inclusive, diverse, and positively impacting team across Africa.

She has worked at Google Developer’s Group where she was the Lead Community Organizer, GDG Nairobi and was in charge of organizing community events for over 500 members of the developer ecosystem who span from beginner level developers to industry experts. While at Strathmore University, she was a  Lead Community Organizer, GDG Strathmore and she improved student participation in the group's program by 84% and increased female attendance by 124% upon entry as the lead organizer. Roina designed an effective hand-over shadowing training program for handing over the lead organizer to the co-lead for the group to enable the continuation of the group's program despite leadership changeovers and put together a specific rubric for integrating women tech makers events and general events to improve female participation.

 In this episode, she shares her musings as a monologue on technology in Africa yesterday, today, and beyond.