About

I like problems where software has to keep working after the demo.

Messy data, long-running jobs, integrations, and people who depend on it. That's the work I'm drawn to.

I started with multi-tenant Node.js and PostgreSQL APIs at Andela, then built real-time telemetry pipelines at NetFella and Spring Boot services for academic and financial systems at the AUCA Innovation Center (Mastercard Program). At IFAD, the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development in Rome, I built FastAPI services that ingest, read, review and archive documents, with background workers on Azure Service Bus and the retry and recovery logic that keeps them dependable.

In May 2026 I founded Trustplot because land and property information in Rwanda is scattered and hard to verify. It brings parcel boundaries, zoning, risk and reference value into one UPI search, built on PostGIS and ArcGIS data.

I hold a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Software Engineering, Distinction, from the Adventist University of Central Africa. Next, I want to join a backend team working on reliable, data-heavy systems. I'm a Rwandan citizen, so I require visa sponsorship; I'm open to relocating within the EU and familiar with the EU Blue Card and Dutch Highly Skilled Migrant processes.

Portrait of Hope Tuyishime

01 / Capabilities

01 · Backend

  1. request
  2. API
  3. response

Fast, typed APIs with clear contracts and honest errors.

Python · FastAPI · Java · Spring Boot · Node.js · TypeScript · SQLAlchemy · Pytest · Playwright

02 · Distributed work

  1. API
  2. queue
  3. workers
  4. retry

Slow work leaves the request; failures are retried and recovered.

Celery · Redis · Azure Service Bus · Docker · Linux · GitHub Actions CI/CD · Azure · AWS · GCP

03 · Data

  1. event
  2. pipeline
  3. PostgreSQL / PostGIS

Schemas, spatial data and queries tuned for real workloads.

PostgreSQL · PostGIS · ETL pipelines · Data modelling · Query optimisation

04 · AI

  1. document
  2. OCR
  3. extract
  4. retrieve
  5. review

AI features with a human in the loop where it matters.

OCR · information extraction · RAG · LLM applications

02 / Experience

  1. May 2026 – NowCurrent

    Founder

    Trustplot, Kigali

    Founded and engineered a land and property intelligence platform for Rwanda: UPI parcel search, interactive mapping, zoning and risk screening, reference valuation and automated reports, on PostGIS and ArcGIS data.

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  2. Oct 2025 · GraduatedEducation

    BSc (Honours) Software Engineering

    Adventist University of Central Africa (AUCA)

    Graduated in software engineering with Distinction.

  3. Mar 2025 – Apr 2026

    Full-stack Software Engineer (Internship)

    IFAD, Rome

    Built FastAPI and PostgreSQL services for document ingestion, OCR, extraction and review (~100 documents a day), with Azure Service Bus workers that kept APIs under 200 ms and cut failed jobs by 60%.

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  4. Aug 2024 – Feb 2025

    Software Engineer Apprentice

    AUCA Innovation Center (Mastercard Program)

    Developed Java, Spring Boot and PostgreSQL REST APIs for academic and financial management systems, with relational models and tuned SQL for transactional workloads.

  5. Jul 2024 – Dec 2024

    Software Engineer Intern

    NetFella

    Built Node.js and TypeScript services and event-driven pipelines for real-time telemetry, with secure REST APIs and access control between distributed components.

  6. Nov 2023 – Dec 2024

    Software Engineer Apprentice

    Andela (remote, part-time)

    Developed multi-tenant REST APIs for authentication and authorisation, improved database performance with indexing and SQL optimisation, and contributed GitHub Actions CI/CD.

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