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Brand & Technology Consultant  ·  East Africa → South Africa

The bridge
Africa needs
to grow.

8+
Years in practice
30+
Brands shaped
Gov.
Scale systems

South African companies expanding into East Africa — and East African operators building to international standard — need one consultant who speaks both markets. That's the work I do.

Services 01
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Brand Strategy & Identity
Positioning, naming, visual identity systems, and messaging frameworks for organisations that need to stand out.
02
Digital Product Design
UX strategy, product design, and full-stack development from concept to deployed, scalable web applications.
03
Payment Integration
M-Pesa, Paystack, and Pesapal integrations for SMEs — enabling seamless digital transactions across Africa.
04
Enterprise Systems
Java enterprise development, trade facilitation platforms, and government-grade system architecture at scale.
New
05
eTIMS Tax Compliance
KRA eTIMS integrations for SMEs — automating electronic tax invoice generation, submission, and compliance via DigiTax and direct API. Remove manual receipting, stay audit-ready.
For South African businesses —

East Africa
is your next
frontier.

The East African market — Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania — is growing faster than any equivalent bloc on the continent. SA companies entering this space need a partner who is already there, already trusted, and already building at government scale.

I work with South African agencies, corporates, and technology teams as a specialist subcontractor or embedded consultant — bringing cross-border product, payment, and brand capability that cannot be hired locally.

Cross-border payments
M-Pesa meets PayFast
SA companies entering East Africa need mobile money rails. I've built M-Pesa STK push, C2B, and Pesapal integrations at production scale — the infrastructure SA fintech teams don't have in-house.
Government-grade systems
Compliance at scale
KRA processes billions in customs transactions annually. That's the bar I build to — AES256 encryption, Oracle DB, RabbitMQ, Spring Boot. SA enterprise and public sector teams will recognise this standard.
VC & investor ecosystem
Inside the EA capital market
Active consulting relationship with EAVCA — the East African Venture Capital Association, whose LP base includes South African institutional investors. I know where the regional capital is flowing.
Subcontractor availability
Works within your structure
Available as a specialist subcontractor to B-BBEE compliant SA agencies and technology firms. Bring the Pan-African capability your clients need without the overhead of a full hire.
Nairobi
Primary base. Daily access to Kenya's tech, government, and startup ecosystem.
Johannesburg
Available for in-person client engagements. Sandton, Rosebank, and remote-first.
Cape Town
Open to creative, agency, and tech engagements in the Western Cape.
East African markets
Kenya · Uganda · Tanzania. On-the-ground presence SA partners cannot replicate.
Selected work 02
Government · Enterprise
Java · iBId · Oracle · ICMS · RabbitMQ · AES256
Kenya Revenue Authority
Embedded Java developer on KRA's mission-critical trade facilitation platforms — processing billions in annual customs transactions. The same compliance-grade, high-availability architecture SA's SARS-integrated enterprise systems demand: Java, Spring Boot, Oracle DB, RabbitMQ, AES256 encryption, and full audit trail workflows. This is the public-sector standard I build to.
Current role · Equivalent to SARS-tier systems
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Payment Infrastructure
M-Pesa · Paystack · Pesapal · Laravel · PHP · Cross-border
Payment Infrastructure for African Markets
Built production-grade payment infrastructure spanning mobile money and card rails — M-Pesa STK push, C2B, Paystack checkout, and Pesapal. For SA companies expanding north: this is the stack your customers expect. I've built it for Pure Wellness Water, MakeWave, Rackets & Rascals, and EAVCA — with full webhook handling, transaction logging, and reconciliation.
Multiple clients · 2022 – present · SA expansion-ready
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Community · Brand · Digital
KDK — Kenyan Design Konversations
Co-founder: brand platform, Campus Drive university tour, web infrastructure, and sponsorship frameworks.
Ongoing
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Digital transformation
EAVCA
Technology and digital transformation consulting for the East African Venture Capital Association.
Ongoing
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Brand strategy · Identity
Adenic Systems
Full rebrand for a Nairobi fire safety company — strategy, positioning, and complete visual identity system.
2026 · In progress
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AI Platform · Full-stack · Technical Director
MakeWave
AI education and no-code platform empowering Africa's entrepreneurs and businesses to build AI-powered solutions. Serving 500+ creators across the continent.
2025
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Full-stack · Tax & Payment Integration
Rackets & Rascals
Full-stack development with Pesapal payment integration and eTIMS tax compliance via DigiTax for a Nairobi-based retail and lifestyle brand.
2026
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Start the conversation 04

Nairobi · Johannesburg · Kampala

Ready when
you are.

South African agency or corporate looking to expand into East Africa? Building something that needs to work across borders? Let's establish whether there's a fit — no obligation.

Email [email protected]
LinkedIn elvismariga ↗
Primary base Nairobi, Kenya
SA engagements Johannesburg & Cape Town
Subcontracting Available to B-BBEE agencies
Timezone EAT (UTC+3) — 1hr ahead of SA
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