Collaborate & learn
Work alongside experienced developers on real production code. PRs reviewed. Mistakes welcome.
DevRW is open to anyone shipping code in Rwanda — bootcamp graduates, self-taught engineers, university students, ten-year veterans. We don't gate-keep. We do, however, expect you to be kind, curious, and willing to share what you know.
No swag, no certificates. Access to the people, projects, and conversations that move you forward.
Work alongside experienced developers on real production code. PRs reviewed. Mistakes welcome.
When companies ask us for engineers, we route the role to the community first. No hidden middle-man cuts.
Hack nights, talks, and occasional workshops — mostly in Kigali, sometimes online. Loose, social, useful.
Contribute to the Rwanda Locations Library, AI tooling, and other community-led projects. Real commits, real review.
A dedicated WhatsApp group for papers, prompts, open model evals, agent design clinics, and the AI side of building products in Africa.
Pair with someone further along. Ask the dumb question in #help. Share what you know in #share. A working WhatsApp — conversations, not announcements.
AI shows up in nearly every WhatsApp message right now. Members are building, studying, and shipping with it — and the community is structured to support that, not just talk about it.
A rotating member picks a paper, summarises it, and opens it for discussion. Light commitment, deep payoff.
We test open models on real African-context tasks — Kinyarwanda translation, USSD bot reasoning, OCR on handwritten registers. Results get shared back.
Occasional hands-on sessions where members pair up to build something — a RAG system, an agent, a fine-tune — and ship a public write-up.
We'll keep you in the loop about events, send you the WhatsApp invite, and — if it fits — route opportunities your way. Your data stays with us. No spam.
Our intake form lives on Google Forms. It takes about a minute. We'll follow up by email.
Summarised themes from real WhatsApp messages — not staged marketing testimonials.
My first real PR review happened here. The comments were patient, specific, and they made me a better engineer.
It's where I find work that doesn't insult me. The gigs routed through DevRW tend to be transparent on rate, scope, and timeline.