Tech Leadership Meetup with David Muchatibaya (Engineering Manager at Ozow)

Join us at our next in-person Tech Leadership meetup. There will be drinks and snacks to kickoff the evening.

The event will be hosted at the AWS Skills Center Cape Town (57 Heerengracht Street).

The agenda for the evening will be as follows:
17:30 - 18:00 - Arrival: Drinks and snacks.
18:00 - 18:15 - Introduction and house rules.
18:15 - 19:00 - Main speaker - David Muchatibaya.
19:00 - 19:30 - Networking and wrap-up.

Topic of Main Talk - Fostering Accountability in Software Engineering Teams

What happens when engineers feel safe to own their mistakes, raise flags early, and commit fully to the team's mission? This talk explores the real power of accountability in modern software teams—not as blame or punishment, but as a lever for velocity, trust, and continuous learning.

In this session, engineering leader David Muchatibaya walks through real-world strategies, frameworks, and psychological dynamics that separate average teams from great ones. Expect thought-provoking insights, interactive moments, and practical takeaways you can apply immediately.

You’ll explore:

• How accountability boosts software quality, team cohesion, and delivery speed.
• Why psychological safety is a prerequisite for high ownership.
• What game theory teaches us about team trust and blame culture.
• How leaders can model, scale, and systematize accountability.

David Muchatibaya is an Engineering Manager at Ozow, where he leads the Payments Engineering department—a team responsible for building and scaling Ozow real-time digital payment systems. Operating in a fast-paced, high-stakes fintech environment, David is on a continual journey to foster a culture of accountability, ownership, and quality among engineering teams.

With a background in backend development and several years of engineering leadership, he's passionate about mentorship and enabling developers to grow into confident, high-impact contributors. His focus is on creating environments where learning and delivery go hand in hand—even under pressure.

Fun fact: Outside of work, David enjoys trying new things—whether it's cycling, riding motorcycles, working out, or planning his next travel adventure. He's also a huge Mission: Impossible fan and never misses a chance to channel his inner Ethan Hunt when navigating complex technical challenges.

Thank you to our sponsors Peach Payments, MoonPay, and OfferZen

Peach Payments make online commerce and digital payment acceptance easier and more accessible across all Africa. We believe in the potential of Africa and aim to grow into more countries. Based in Cape Town, South Africa, we work with small and large merchants in South Africa, Kenya and Mauritius to provide a complete toolkit to accept, manage and disburse payments through web and mobile. Our merchant partners include your favourite food delivery services, whether you are ordering in or using a meal kit, travel services that can help you book your next getaway adventure and even your neighbour’s side-hustle e-commerce store. For these partners and their customers, we aim to provide brilliant experiences that make it as easy as possible to facilitate online payments.

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MoonPay believes in building a world where you own your digital future, giving you control of your identity, money, property and data.
We are the market leader in end-to-end solutions simplifying access to the crypto economy for 20M+ people across 180+ countries, and trusted by iconic global brands including wallets, marketplaces, exchanges and leading web2 enterprises.

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OfferZen is an online job marketplace by developers for developers. Our mission is to help people unlock their potential by helping them build awesome software. That’s why we are connecting actively looking developers with exciting job opportunities from over 1000 companies in South Africa and the Netherlands. We flip the normal recruitment process on its head – companies reach out to candidates with upfront salary information.

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