Payment integrations at Kwenda
Integrating mobile money and bank payment APIs into systems serving customers in Malawi.
Hello, I’m Wongani. From Lilongwe, Malawi.
I build things people can depend on.
I’m Wongani, an engineer in Lilongwe working across power, software, and hardware. This is where I share what I build, learn, and notice.
Open to thoughtful collaborations
Out in the world
Useful things.
Real people.
Some work lives on a screen. Some keeps the screen on. I’m interested in the whole picture.
Explore my workAutomating daily reporting at ESCOM
A daily reporting system built with Python, PostgreSQL, and Next.js during my engineering internship.
A smart prepaid electricity meter
A final-year project combining remote recharge, consumption monitoring, and on-device anomaly detection.
Recognition
Moments that matter.
2025
Triple Outstanding Student Award
MUBAS: Electronics & Telecommunications, Electrical, and School of Engineering.
2024
Digital Malawi Hackathon winner
Smart Inventory and Procurement System, combining Raspberry Pi, RFID/NFC, software, and machine learning.
2022
Malawi Innovators Design Competition winner
Technology category, with Change E-save.
From the notebook
Thinking out loud.
Designing electronics for places where the power goes out
Load-shedding is not an edge case in Malawi — it is the operating environment. That changes how you design everything.
3 min readMy KiCad project hygiene, after too many rescues
Small workflow rules that keep a PCB project openable in five years.
2 min readLow-cost prepaid energy submetering for multi-tenant housing in Malawi
A field evaluation of an ESP32-based prepaid submeter design, deployed across 12 households in Lilongwe for six months.
3 min readRooted here.
Curious everywhere.
Curious everywhere.
Beyond the job title
There’s a person behind the projects.
Electronics and telecommunications is my training. Curiosity connects the rest: how a system works, what makes it useful, and the people who depend on it. This little corner of the internet is a place to keep exploring.
A little more about meGood work starts with a conversation.
Have something in mind?
A product to build, a system to improve, or a problem worth understanding. I’d like to hear about it.