Kwame Addo

Overview

Principal at Pinecrest Capital, backing healthcare companies. Previously an operator for 6 years before investing. Before that: GTBank and Meta. Most at home with regulation and biotech. Trail runner and occasional climber.

Experience

1. Principal

   Jan 2025 - Present
   Pinecrest Capital · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Accra, Ghana
   • Led or co-led 8 investments, 6 of them now at Series B or later.
   • Backed 38 founders at pre-seed and seed.
   • Sit on 7 boards.
2. Full-Stack Engineer

   Aug 2022 - Dec 2024
   GTBank · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Accra, Ghana
   • Cut cold-start time on low-end Android phones by 50%.
   • Cut p99 latency on the Android services from 356ms to 123ms.
3. Senior Engineering Manager

   Nov 2019 - Aug 2022
   Meta · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Accra, Ghana
   • Grew the developer platform team from 5 to 36 engineers.
   • Wrote the venture capital service that now handles 53 million requests a day.
4. Senior Data Engineer

   Apr 2018 - Nov 2019
   Dangote Group · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Accra, Ghana
   • Built the experimentation models now used in 12 product decisions a quarter.
   • Cut the time to a trustworthy experiment readout from 3 weeks to 5 days.
5. Senior Platform Engineer

   Oct 2016 - Apr 2018
   Google · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Accra, Ghana
   • Built the experimentation framework 14 product teams use to ship changes safely.

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Education

1. Strathmore University

   BCom, Finance
   2011 - 2015