( The person behind the studio )

Ken Murithi is a Nairobi software developer, the founder and lead developer of Ken Designers, and Kenya's Best Software Developer of the Year 2026.

His story ↓See his work
Ken Murithi, founder and lead developer of Ken Designers, in a black suit
Nairobi · Kenya
Studio portrait of Ken Murithi in a brown double-breasted suit
Ken Murithi speaking on a panel at the Africa Business Summit
Winners holding their trophies at the Kenya Ecommerce Awards ceremony

Developer.

Founder.

Award winner.

Ken writes the code himself. M-Pesa flows that never drop a payment, delivery logic that understands how Kenya ships, tills that keep selling offline.

He started Ken Designers in Nairobi to build for one market properly: businesses that sell to East Africans. The studio has now served more than 300 of them.

Best Software Developer of the Year 2026 at the Digitally Fit Awards, and Best E-Commerce Website Developer of the Year at the Kenya Ecommerce Awards.

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( Who is Ken? )

Moments thatshaped him.

Awards, stages and the work that got him there.

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    Studio portrait of Ken Murithi

    Best Software Developer of the Year

    Digitally Fit Awards · 2026

  • 02
    Ken Murithi in a black suit

    Best Software Firm of the Year

    Ken Designers · Digitally Fit Awards · 2026

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    Ken Murithi holding the Best E-Commerce Website Developer of the Year trophy

    Best E-Commerce Website Developer

    Kenya Ecommerce Awards

  • 04
    Ken Designers receiving the Best E-Commerce Agency award on stage

    Best E-Commerce Agency

    Ken Designers · Kenya Ecommerce Awards

  • 05
    Ken Murithi speaking at the Africa Business Summit

    Speaker, Africa Business Summit

    Connecting Africa, building tomorrow

  • 06
    Ken Murithi at an awards gala dinner in Nairobi

    Awards gala night

    Nairobi

  • 07
    Good Morning Baby Shop POS till built by Ken Designers

    Two POS systems in one month

    Good Morning Baby Shop · Royal Home

  • 08
    BONGA voice typing app for Windows

    BONGA, free voice typing

    A Windows app Ken built and gives away

What Ken builds.

Good Morning Baby Shop website designed by Ken Designers, with pink and navy branding, shop-by-category circles and featured products priced in KSh

01 · Websites

Websites & Platforms

Fast, modern sites for any business: corporate, portfolio, booking, directories. Designed from scratch, delivered with SEO ready from day one.

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Jinsoko wholesale ecommerce platform built by Ken Designers

02 · Ecommerce

Online Stores

Stores built for how Kenyans buy: M-Pesa STK push at checkout, KES pricing, county delivery zones and KRA eTIMS-ready invoicing.

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Three mobile app screens for an AI meal and calorie tracker: onboarding, camera food scan with nutrition breakdown, and meal discovery

03 · Mobile Apps

Android & iOS Apps

Customer, delivery and field-team apps that share one backend with your website and systems, with M-Pesa payments built in.

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Good Morning Baby Shop POS built by Ken Designers: the till with product tiles showing stock levels and a basket totalling KSh 1,850

04 · POS Systems

Point of Sale

POS for shops, restaurants and pharmacies that reconciles every M-Pesa payment, controls stock across branches and syncs with your online store.

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Content management system dashboard with page views, active users, content performance charts and team activity

05 · CMS & Software

Custom Software & CMS

When off-the-shelf does not fit: management systems, content management systems, portals, dashboards and integrations built around your business.

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Laptop showing an SEO landing page with a rising growth curve from start to engage, marketing and benefits

06 · SEO

Search & Visibility

Content architecture, local SEO and structured data tuned to East African search intent, so customers find you on Google, Maps and AI assistants first.

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How Ken works.

01

Kenya first

M-Pesa, KSh pricing, county delivery, eTIMS and patchy networks are the brief, not an afterthought.

02

You talk to the builder

Clients reach the developer who built their system, not a ticket queue. Most stay for years.

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Scope in writing

A fixed price, a timeline and a clear list of what is in and out, before any deposit.

( Now you know )

Work with Ken.

Message Ken on WhatsAppFollow @kenwebdeveloper