Faith Chebet

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Co-founder & COO at Vista Foods · Agritech · supply chain, fintech

Vista Foods
Nairobi, Kenya · EAT (UTC+3)
12+ years experience
University of Ghana
English, Swahili
Hiring
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Overview

Co-founder & COO of Vista Foods, working on agritech. Raised $38 million across 2 rounds. Previously built and sold a small agritech company. Before that: Equity Bank and Amazon. Board games, hiking, and terrible puns.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Early customers and design partners
  • Working sessions on fintech
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills
supply chainagriculturefintechrural distribution
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Looking for product designers to join Vista Foods early - agritech

Role
Product designer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
$130k-$179k + equity
Team
Founding team, 11 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
A portfolio of shipped product work Comfort working directly with engineers Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp $185k-$249k. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Nairobi, Kenyafintechsupply chainrural distribution
Open

Experience

  1. Co-founder & COO
    May 2025 - Present
    Vista Foods · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Previously built and sold a small agritech company.
    • Took Vista Foods from zero to $4 million ARR.
    • Signed 167 paying customers, 22 of them enterprises.
  2. Embedded Engineer
    May 2022 - May 2025
    Equity Bank · 3 yr · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Wrote the supply chain service that now handles 4 million requests a day.
    • Shipped 12 launches on the iOS team without a rollback.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Mar 2019 - May 2022
    Amazon · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 15 a week to 3.
    • Grew the developer experience team from 5 to 39 engineers.
  4. Software Engineer
    Dec 2017 - Mar 2019
    MTN · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 542ms to 89ms.
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 24% in two quarters.
  5. Senior Platform Engineer
    Jun 2014 - Dec 2017
    Dangote Group · 3 yr 6 mo · Contract · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Wrote the fintech service that now handles 3 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. University of Ghana
    BSc, Engineering
    2000 - 2004

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