Alain Barsime
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Alain Barsime

Co-founder and CEO of Entelon, an AI company building language-native systems for institutions across Africa. Kigali, Rwanda.

Featured in Disrupt AfricaiAfrica

Role
Co-founder and CEO, Entelon
Based in
Kigali, Rwanda
Focus
Entrepreneurship, AI, system design and backend engineering
Contact
alainbarsime@gmail.com

Experience

  1. 2025 — Present

    Co-founder and CEO

    Entelon

    AI company in Kigali building reliable, language-native AI products and custom AI systems for businesses and institutions across Africa. Co-founded in August 2025.

    • Sets Entelon’s long-term vision and leads its research and engineering direction: which problems the company pursues and how its systems are built to last.
    • Architects the backend and AI infrastructure that Entelon’s products run on.
    • Leads Entelon’s research on Kinyarwanda language technology: a text-to-speech model trained on roughly 500 hours of Kinyarwanda audio, a Kinyarwanda language model and a handwriting recognition model.
    • Backend and AI engineering on Mamora AI, built for HDI Rwanda: an AI-powered community wellbeing platform that helps detect disease outbreaks early and surface community wellbeing challenges. 500+ users through 30+ community health workers and 1,200+ reports filed.
    • Built Visko, which takes the paperwork out of field research: teams keep the questionnaires they already use and simply talk through them, so answers move from the field to analysis without manual data entry.
    • Built Klok AI, which makes grading lighter for teachers: it reads students’ handwritten exam answers and suggests marks step by step, while the teacher stays in charge of every grade.
    • Architected HeyRwanda, a companion for experiencing Rwanda from choosing where to go to finding your way and paying along the trip, and Phibram, which turns the conversations in a call center or hotline into a clear, continuous picture of service quality and customer experience.
  2. 2025

    Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer

    WeSperr

    Data privacy startup that gives people control of their data: collected with consent, anonymized, and turned into insights businesses need, with users sharing the value.

    • Led technical direction and development.
    • Selected from thousands of applicants into the Hanga Pitchfest top 25.

Honors

  1. 2025

    Top 25, Hanga Pitchfest

    Selected from thousands of applicants with WeSperr, as CTO. Hanga profile

  2. 2024

    Top 80 nationally, O-Level national exams

    Rwanda national examinations.

Press

  1. 9 October 2026

    Rwanda’s Entelon is building AI for organisations still running on paper

    Disrupt Africa. By Tom Jackson. Feature on Entelon; names Alain as co-founder.

  2. October 2026

    Rwanda’s Entelon builds AI for organisations still running on paper

    iAfrica. Republished feature on Entelon; names Alain as co-founder.

Education

  1. 2024 — Present

    Rwanda Coding Academy

    Software development

  2. 2021 — 2024

    Groupe Scolaire Officiel de Butare

    O-Level (Senior 1–3)

Skills

AI & ML
Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain
Backend
Node.js, NestJS, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
Frontend & mobile
React, Next.js, React Native, Flutter, Swift
Infrastructure
AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes

Contact

For partnerships, research collaborations, press or speaking, email alainbarsime@gmail.com.

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