Jeremiah Chienda — AI Engineer | Agents, RAG & LLM Systems

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Jeremiah Chienda

AI Engineer

10+ years

shipping production software

12M citizens

can access IremboAI in Rwanda

2x Founder

$500+ ARR

1M+ farmers

served by systems I led at One Acre Fund

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Rwanda's government, answerable in Kinyarwanda, English or French. I led the AI team that built it.

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3 languages
95% accuracy & tone

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Microsoft FabricAzure AI FoundryMAFLangChainLangfuse

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LinkedIn (6k+ followers)GitHub (150+ followers)X / @liwucodes YouTube / @liwucodes TikTok / @liwucodes

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PROFILE

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IREMBO AI

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CAREER

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"Irembo"

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"ICO"

role: "AI Engineer"

impact: "Responsible Data & AI at the UK's data regulator"

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"One Acre Fund"

role: "Lead Software Engineer"

impact: "Systems serving 1M+ smallholder farmers"

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FOCUS AREAS

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Agent ArchitectureRAG PipelinesMCPGenerative UIAI SafetyToken Economics

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LATEST WRITING

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"How We Built a National AI Assistant for 12 Million Citizens"

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date: "2026-06-28"

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},

{

"The Rise and Rise of Forward Deployed Engineers"

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date: "2026-06-22"

readingTime: "6 min"

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"Here's why your AI-generated code fails to scale - Part II"

permalink: "/why-your-ai-code-fails-to-scale-pt2"

date: "2026-03-03"

readingTime: "18 min"

},

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"Here's why your AI-generated code fails to scale - Part I"

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date: "2026-03-01"

readingTime: "9 min"

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CREATIVE ENGINE

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UMP Cypha 2018Machine Minder

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