Due mainly to market volatility and lack of institutional trust, trading currencies between African currencies is extremely hard, expensive, and delaying.
In order to help solve this problem and integrate more Africans to the financial market, BitPesa is a digital foreign exchange and payment platform for frontier markets, providing wholesale cryptocurrency liquidity for individuals and institutions across Africa.
BitPesa, now rebaranded to AZA Finance, holds serveral products I helped mantain and develop as part of their Software Engineering Team.
Ruby on Rails, ReactJS, Postgresql, Docker, AWS