Startup Grind Dar es Salaam hosts Edwin Bruno (SmartCodes)

Edwin Bruno is an award winning software engineer and entrepreneur with profound passion in providing 360 digital services. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Smart Codes (T) Limited, a digital agency based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania that is behind the ground-breaking digital newsstand app, M-Paper, and that has a turnover of $350,000, employs 29 full time employees and 15 contract employees. Edwin was recently recognized by Forbes Africa as a billionaire in the making and will likely appear in the cover of Forbes Africa, 20 years from now! He is also the winner of the Young Achiever Award under the Tanzanian Leadership Awards in 2015 and his mobile app, M-Paper, was recently recognized by Apps Africa as the best educational innovation app in Africa.