Samuel Owino
Software Engineering Instructor
Curriculum Designer
Samuel is a software engineer and co-founder of Life Planner, based in Nairobi. At Reduzer, he designed the software development curriculum and teaches students as they work from programming fundamentals towards building complete products.
Life Planner
A daily planner that brings tasks, habits, a journal and personal finances into one app.
As co-founder, Samuel works across platform development, recruiting and project management. His responsibilities include deciding what to build and organising the team around it.
Explore Life Planner
- Google Play downloads
- 100K+
- Google Play reviews
- 2.5K+
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What he teaches
Building Life Planner involves product decisions, development and the work of keeping a product useful over time. At Reduzer, Samuel connects that experience to two habits students practise in their own projects.
Understand the people using the software
Students consider what people need and the conditions in which they will use a product. They learn to ask whether a feature solves the user’s problem and how they can check that it does.
Make the code easier to maintain
Samuel emphasises clear structure and fundamentals such as data structures and APIs. Students learn to consider how another developer will read, change and build on their work.
His earlier work includes developing PEERNaija and contributing to mUzima, where he also mentored through Outreachy.
Your next step
Learn with Samuel at Reduzer
Samuel teaches on our software development programme. Choose online or onsite study, with the same curriculum and assessments. Beginners are welcome.
- Commitment
- One year, full-time
- Monday–Friday, 8am–5pm
- Tuition for either option
- KSh 10,000 per month
- 12 payments · KSh 120,000 total
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