Founder, builder, and community lead based in Kenya.
Andrew Kim Joseph is a Celo builder, Flutter and full-stack engineer, and founder of products at the intersection of research, rewards, and AI agents. He co-founded CNV in 2024 with Benedictors Ogada — a Kenyan developer-designer duo — and leads technical vision across mobile, web, and on-chain infrastructure.
CNV came out of the Build with Celo 7 hackathon, where the theme was “transform rewards and loyalty.” About a year later, it evolved into an umbrella with two wings:
Mission: Collect data, make it useful, and share it openly.
Received support from Prezenti grants and partners with GoodDollar, using G$ as the default reward currency. Eight research reports published on the Celo Forum covering Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa. Pax production wallet ops go through the Celina SDK, so Insights and Intelligence share one chain client, under the operating company CNV Labs.
Solo-built Celina — a Celo-native SDK and MCP stack that gives LLMs and AI agents a wallet on Celo. The stack includes 116 MCP tools on local stdio (50 on the hosted MCP and A2A endpoints), npm packages (@andrewkimjoseph/celina-sdk, @andrewkimjoseph/celina-mcp), and Celeste as a wallet-signed DeFAI reference app.
Co-founded Salamander Tech Hub — a Kenyan open-source community with the motto Build. Burn. Evolve. Organized Wajenzi Hack 1.0, leads technical architecture, and supports community programs with 50+ active members and 100+ contributions.
| Period | Role |
|---|---|
| 2024 – present | Founder & Builder CNV Building a research marketplace and AI-agent tooling on Celo, from hackathon idea to funded product. |
| 2026 – present | Creator Celina Solo-built an open-source SDK and MCP stack that gives AI agents a wallet on Celo. |
| 2025 – present | Co-Founder & Technical Lead Salamander Tech Hub Co-founded and runs technical architecture for a Kenyan open-source builder community. |
| 2023 – 2024 | Founding Engineer Partify Built Partify end-to-end as founding engineer — Flutter mobile app, Stripe marketplace payouts, Firebase backend, real-time chat, and ops/admin web tools. |
| Year | Accomplishment |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Software Engineering ALX Africa |
| 2022 | Mobile App Development — Flutter Power Learn Project |
| 2021 | Bachelor of Education (Arts) — English and Literature Kenyatta University |