“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
Software engineer, founder and lifelong student of life and philosophy. I believe enduring technology begins with first principles, disciplined execution and a willingness to question everything and everyone. I pursue the kind of work that compounds over decades and hopefully outlives me.
How I found my life's work.
I'm Goodwin Omollo, a software engineer, co-founder, and CEO of Crucibel Technology Ltd.
I began my career building web applications for businesses across different industries. Those years taught me more than how to write code - they taught me how technology succeeds or fails depending on how well it understands the people it's built for.
My own experiences navigating Kenya's healthcare system changed the direction of my work. Visiting different hospitals, laboratories and diagnostic centres exposed me to fragmented records, disconnected systems, and workflows that created unnecessary friction for both me and the clinicians. I found myself repeatedly filling out the same forms, carrying paper records between providers, and watching information fail to follow me throughout my healthcare journey. It became clear to me that the challenge wasn't the healthcare providers - it was the underlying infrastructure.
Those experiences ultimately led me to build Nova together with my brothers, Paul Ochieng and Wycliffe Abok. We believed there was a better way - one where technology could be a seamless partner to healthcare providers and not a constant source of friction. Today, Nova stands head and shoulders above the rest as a modern, intuitive software that addresses the challenges our clinicians face every day. We focused on making healthcare workflows smoother, more connected and more reliable.
I believe building world-class technology requires more than technical ability. It demands a deep understanding of the problems you're solving, the discipline to question assumptions, and the patience to build for the long term.
Building Kenya's digital healthcare infrastructure.
Across Kenya and many parts of Africa, healthcare data still lives in silos - paper records, isolated systems, fragmented workflows. A patient moving between a hospital, a laboratory and an imaging centre often carries their medical history on paper or in memory. The cost of this fragmentation is paid in delayed diagnoses, duplicated tests, and avoidable harm.
Nova is our answer - a shared infrastructure layer that lets providers in our network exchange information securely, work from a single source of truth and focus on care instead of paperwork. The vision isn't a single product - it's the connective tissue that Kenya's healthcare ecosystem can be built on.
Where my work lives today.
Healthcare Infrastructure
Building the digital foundation that hospitals, pharmacies, laboratories, diagnostic centres, healthcare professionals and patients depend on every day.
Health Information Exchange
Connecting healthcare providers through secure, standards-based exchange of clinical information with patient consent at the centre.
Unified Patient Records
Creating a longitudinal patient record that follows people across the healthcare system instead of remaining trapped in disconnected legacy platforms.
Healthcare Interoperability
Designing APIs, integrations and shared services that allow independent healthcare systems to communicate as one.
Privacy, Security & Compliance
Building healthcare technology that protects patient privacy and meets the regulatory expectations of modern digital health.
Digital Health Transformation
Helping healthcare organizations modernize operations with technology that is intuitive, reliable and built around real clinical workflows.
The ideas that guide my decisions.
Think from first principles
Question assumptions before optimizing them. Every meaningful problem deserves to be understood from its fundamentals rather than accepted as 'the way things have always been done.'
Build for decades
Healthcare infrastructure isn't built for the next quarter - it is built for the next generation. I value durability, patience and long-term thinking over short-term wins.
Technology should disappear
The best software rarely draws attention to itself. It quietly removes friction, empowers people and lets clinicians focus on caring for patients instead of navigating systems.
Trust is the product
In healthcare, security, privacy, reliability, and transparency are not features - they are prerequisites. Every technical decision should strengthen trust, never weaken it.
Systems shape behaviour
People are rarely the bottleneck. Poorly designed systems create unnecessary complexity. Better systems enable better decisions, better collaboration and ultimately better outcomes.
Leave things better than you found them
Whether it's software, a company or a community, meaningful work should create lasting value for the people who depend on it. That's the standard I strive to build towards every day.
Thoughts on building, technology and philosophy.
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