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Track Record

A transparent record of ideated, tested, and concluded ventures alongside quantitative trading engines and decentralized finance strategies.

Ideated, tested, concluded ventures

20 Initiatives

Online Retailer · parked

E-Commerce Youth Enablement 2025 • Kenya

Online retail initiative with a customer-centric approach providing buying guides, expert advice, and a next-level shopping interface for the East-African market.

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Most Kenyan e-commerce websites operate as passive middleman directories lacking detailed specifications, comparison tools, and structured search filters.

Modeled after customer-advisory retailers like Coolblue in Europe, the platform guided buyers to select suitable products through expert buying guides.

Integrated structured filters, side-by-side spec comparisons, and direct manufacturer sourcing to build consumer trust through genuine advisory value.

valuencer.app · concluded

Web3 2025 • Kenya

valuencer.app is a web3 investment and content curation platform for true fans and a monetization platform for creators.

Stepn - MoveToEarn · concluded

Web3 Youth Enablement 2023 • Uganda

A team of 9 employees walked 90 phones daily for 6 months, totaling ~16200km - ~50k USD revenue.

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Managed operations remotely from Europe while bedridden for three months following a severe motorcycle accident.

Built an automated system directing a local manager and eight walkers carrying ninety phones daily to maximize mining efficiency.

Discontinued the profitable operation after recurring phone theft created management friction that outweighed operating profits.

Stepn MoveToEarn operations

Reality Mining · concluded

Web3 Youth Enablement 2023 • Uganda

Community-sourced street-level imagery and map data (2 employees mapped a city neighborhood using RealityMaps).

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Explored decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN) by gathering street-level imagery for Web3 geospatial protocols using RealityMaps.

Deployed two local field workers equipped with smartphones to systematically map an entire Kampala urban neighborhood on foot.

Evaluated crypto network mining rewards, mobile data upload requirements, and automated map validation protocols.

Reality Mining

Small shop Digitalization consultancy · concluded

Digitalization Youth Enablement 2022 • Uganda

Bringing local businesses online using free tools like google.com/business, e.g., Open Door Beer Store

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Small shop Digitalization consultancy

Dependable Gardens · explored

AgriTech Youth Enablement 2024 • Kenya

Dependable Gardens - uses hydroponic farming to offer year-round, high-yield, high-quality, low-pesticide produce.

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East African urban food markets face frequent supply shortages, seasonal price spikes, and produce spoilage from rural transit.

Traditional open-field farming suffers from erratic rainfall patterns, heavy pesticide dependence, and declining soil fertility.

Explored closed-loop hydroponic systems that reduce water consumption by ninety percent on compact urban footprints.

Designed a model to train young technicians in precision modern agriculture and supply clean produce year-round.

Electric Unicycle Adventure · parked

2024 • Kenya

Electric Unicycle Adventure brings you an exhilarating experience of exploring and test-driving electric unicycles, the transportation method of the future.

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Explored electric unicycles as efficient personal urban transit and an adventurous group outdoor activity.

Evaluated a commercial recreation business model providing guided afternoon riding sessions and test-drive events for social groups.

Researched global unicycle manufacturers, procurement pricing, Kenyan customs import tariffs, and fleet maintenance unit economics.

House Search Engine · explored

Digitalization 2022 • Uganda

Real estate aggregation and property discovery engine.

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Finding rental housing in Uganda required calling phone numbers on utility poles and paying viewing fees to informal brokers.

Brokers lacked digital communication tools and showed mismatched properties outside client specifications to maximize daily fees.

Existing listing websites contained duplicate spam ads, false prices, and random stock photos without verified property connections.

Explored a digital property discovery platform featuring verified listings, transparent pricing, and video walkthroughs to eliminate broker friction.

Online music management and promotion · concluded

Digitalization 2024 • Uganda

Digital representation, streaming distribution, and audience development for independent artists.

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Local recording artists relied on traditional managers who held local contacts but lacked digital marketing competence.

Artists maintained fragmented accounts across multiple social and streaming services without a centralized online hub.

Tested musician landing page platforms to aggregate streaming links, profiles, and media into a unified public identity.

Online music management and promotion

Everything Store · concluded

Digitalization 2023 • Uganda

Everything Store - an online store for fire sales of second-hand items

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People moving out of Uganda circulated unorganized PDFs, emails, and photo dumps across WhatsApp and Facebook groups.

These unstructured channels caused message clutter and made inventory tracking and price negotiations difficult.

Built a dedicated marketplace website with real-time inventory updates, direct phone contacts, and a lightweight bidding mechanism.

Created an organized catalog for second-hand clearance sales that stopped unsolicited product promotions in community chat groups.

Custom-made design furniture · concluded

2023 • Uganda

Custom-made design furniture - e.g., Floating bed, from design to installed product

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Formal retail chains like IKEA do not exist in Uganda, where carpenters build and display basic furniture along the street.

Buyers must buy raw timber, specify custom dimensions, and negotiate construction costs with local workshops.

Leveraged this bespoke production model to design and supervise high-end architectural furniture rather than standard pieces.

Designed and built custom workstations, an epoxy resin river table, and a $3,000 floating bed made locally for €300 instead of €3,000 in Europe.

Kampala shopping assistant · concluded

Digitalization 2023 • Uganda

Kampala shopping assistant - a procurement system to find anything at the right price in a world that still negotiates for every item

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Online shopping and delivery platforms did not exist in Uganda, so buyers relied on fragmented personal contacts to find products.

Downtown retail in the Kampala Central Business District lacked transparent prices and centralized directories.

Mapped physical shops, cataloged downtown store managers, and created a structured vendor database inside Notion.

An automated Notion comparison tool tracked real-time price quotes after procurement managers contacted shops to negotiate favorable rates.

Dispatched local couriers to deliver verified items to clients for a small sourcing fee.

Private Chef / Small Restaurant Stock Management App · concluded

Digitalization 2023 • Uganda

Automated menu scheduling, pantry stock tracking, and net procurement shopping list generation built in Notion.

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Created a unified menu frontend where staff selected dishes and drinks to schedule a complete weekly menu.

Connected scheduled meals to underlying recipes to calculate gross ingredient requirements automatically.

Maintained a live pantry checklist to record available household provisions and existing store room stock.

Subtracted available pantry provisions from gross recipe requirements to produce an exact, consolidated shopping procurement list.

Unsecured personal loans / revolving lines of credit · concluded

Youth Enablement 2024 • Uganda

Unsecured open-ended personal loans / revolving lines of credit at fair rates

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Most Ugandans facing short-term liquidity challenges relied on predatory pawn shops and loan sharks who unlawfully confiscated physical national ID cards as collateral.

The primary hurdle was access to an initial, non-extortionate opportunity that allowed ambitious individuals to test an enterprise or manage personal debt responsibly.

Piloted small, unsecured revolving credit lines at fair rates for selected individuals with productive capacity to observe repayment behavior and debt management.

Community Kings · concluded

Web3 Youth Enablement 2023 • Uganda

Community Kings - English-speaking online community managers for global Web3 protocols and DAOs.

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Global Web3 protocols and DAOs needed fluent English speakers with technical expertise to manage, organize, and grow their Discord communities.

Uganda had an abundance of talented, tech-literate youth but very limited local career and earning opportunities.

Community Kings created remote online jobs by training and placing Ugandan talent as dedicated community builders for international crypto ecosystems.

Long-term to short-term rental conversions · explored

2025 • Kenya

Furnishing, interior design, and staging optimization for short-stay hospitality yields.

Import of iPhones and tech gadgets to Uganda · explored

2023 • Uganda

Direct electronics sourcing, logistics, and retail distribution.

Forex shop · concluded

2023 • Uganda

Currency exchange operations and cross-border cash liquidity.

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Explored Web3 rails, traditional banking corridors, mobile money networks, and fintech platforms for cross-border transfers.

Mapped hidden transaction fees, currency spreads, and withdrawal deductions across regional financial channels.

Identified credit cards offering up to eight percent cash back that created profitable arbitrage opportunities against local cash rates.

Executed live foreign exchange operations to test capital efficiency before concluding the venture.

Car Rental · explored

2023 • Uganda

Fleet management and direct customer rental vehicle services.

Digital Micro Task Agency · explored

Youth Enablement 2020

Coordinated workforce management for distributed data categorization and micro-tasks.

Online course about advanced Qlik data analytics apps · concluded

2015 • Europe

Curriculum design and technical tutorials for enterprise business intelligence architectures.

Quantitative & DeFi Strategies

8 Strategies
Automated Engine • Python • Market Making

Proprietary Cross-Exchange Triangular Arbitrage

A proprietary cross-exchange triangular arbitrage market-making trading engine written in Python. Developed by Georges-Charles Brain to capture cross-currency discrepancies and provide automated liquidity across centralized exchanges.

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Key Capabilities
  • Universal parameterized bot for market making vs reference markets
  • Order placement optimizer dependent on order book depth
  • Multi-exchange balance rebalancing & capital management
  • Emergency auto-cancellation checker and Redis bot state viewer
  • Public trade processor converting prices to EUR with reference bid/ask deltas
Tech Stack

Python: CCXT, threading, SQLAlchemy, Redis, boto3, Pandas, NumPy, Dask, Altair.
AWS: EC2, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM, SageMaker, S3.
Infrastructure: Redis, MySQL, Linux, Jupyter Lab.

Solana DeFi

Solana DeFi Arbitrage Bot

Solana Defi arbitrage bot using jup.ag and ccxt.

Market Neutral

Algorithmic Cash & Carry

Algorithmic cash & carry - perpetual funding rate arbitrage.

Liquidity Engineering

Hedged Yield Farming

Hedged Yield Farming on Ethereum and Solana (APY.vision, tulip.garden, custom gsheet model).

Algorithmic Execution

Grid Trading

Grid trading (custom gsheet model).

Credit Markets

Uncollateralized Lending

Uncollateralized lending (TrueFi, notes.finance).

Institutional Allocation

Quant Hedge Fund Investing

Quant hedge fund investing.

CEX Arbitrage

Manual Triangular Arbitrage vs Fiat

Manual triangular arbitrage vs Fiat on CEXs.