Hi, I'm

Joshua Ssentongo

Android & Arduino Developer

Building scalable software across mobile, cybersecurity, and AI.

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Who I Am

Second-year BSc Software Engineering student at Makerere University (CGPA 4.73/5.0), building across Android development, cybersecurity, embedded systems, and AI/ML.

Outside of code I train youth in robotics, Scratch, and electronics through Creative Child Foundation UG and Kids University Uganda, preparing teams for the Robotics for Good Youth Challenge 2026 with the national finals at Makerere Innovation Pod and the grand finale in Geneva.

Founding Makerere University's first CTF club targeting the UCC Inter-University Cyber Stars Challenge, with specialization tracks in web, binary, and cryptography.

Location Kampala, Uganda
Degree BSc Software Engineering (BSSE), 2024 – 2028
CGPA CGPA: 4.73 / 5.0

Languages

PythonKotlinTypeScriptJavaSQLBash

Mobile & Frontend

Android (Jetpack)ReactHTML/CSS/JS

Backend

Spring BootNestJSDjangoLaravel

Databases

PostgreSQLTimescaleDBMySQLHibernate ORM

AI / ML

YOLOv8Hugging FaceViTlibrosa

Cybersecurity

Web ExploitationBinary ExploitationCTF

Embedded / IoT

ArduinoTinkerCADElectronics Prototyping

Public Contribution Activity

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Key Projects

Active

Mass Messaging Marketing System

Scalable messaging infrastructure with real-time WebSocket monitoring, job queues, idempotency, rate-limiting, and analytics dashboard.

NestJSTypeScriptPostgreSQLBullMQWhatsApp Cloud API
Complete

UniPapers

Academic paper-sharing platform for secure upload, search, and download of university exam past papers.

AndroidKotlinSpring BootPostgreSQLHibernate
Complete

Bus Passenger Counting System

AI computer vision system targeting Kiira Motors Kayoola buses for automated passenger analytics, optimized for edge deployment.

PythonYOLOv8OpenCV
Complete

Sentio AI

Contributed to award-winning Music Emotion Recognition model. IEEE Best AI Project Award, Makerere University.

Hugging FaceViTlibrosaPython