About Power Mukisa

Hi, I'm Power a software engineer, product thinker, and startup founder with over 10 years of experience building systems that scale across markets and matter to people.

I was born and raised in Uganda, where curiosity first led me to tinker with electronics and write code before I had a reliable internet connection. That same drive took me across three continents, earning master's degrees from UC Berkeley (Development Practice, with a minor in Computer Science) and Westcliff University (Engineering Management), while building and contributing to technology at both startups and high-growth companies.

Professional Background

I've built and scaled backend systems in fintech, AI infrastructure, and health tech, supporting everything from real-time money transfers in the U.S. to financial services in emerging markets. Most recently at Altruist, I led engineering for money movement systems, including integrations with Plaid, FIS, and Wells Fargo, handling millions in financial transactions. I also designed distributed workflows using Kafka and Temporal, and collaborated across product and compliance to improve customer onboarding and reliability.

Earlier at Tala, I built backend services across multiple markets, wrote orchestration layers in Kotlin and Go, and scaled QA infrastructure to support millions of mobile users. I also led QA teams across Kenya and India, growing test coverage by 80%.

As a founding engineer at HealthInspecta, I built a cross-platform mobile app to help users track and improve eating habits with AI-powered feedback. The system, built in Flutter and FastAPI, currently supports hundreds of active users and integrates with Azure Blob and RabbitMQ for real-time sync.

Milestones & Highlights

• 🏦 Led development of core transfer and cashiering systems at Altruist, helping scale operations to support rapid growth in client accounts.
• 📄 Built an e-signature orchestration system with Temporal, automating over 20,000 onboarding workflows with Dropbox Sign APIs.
• ⚙️ Created a test automation tool called Gezako, inspired by challenges faced at Tala, which was later adopted internally to manage QA across teams.
• 📡 Prototyped a hardware-based malaria intervention as part of my Berkeley capstone — using ultrasonic frequencies to repel mosquitoes in rural Uganda.
• 🌍 Worked across 5 countries and on remote teams distributed across Africa, India, Europe, and the U.S.
• 💼 Collaborated with cross-functional teams, from data scientists and product managers to compliance officers and designers to deliver full-stack, production-ready solutions.