Linda Kwamboka

Linet Kwamboka Nyang'au (born c. 1988), is a Kenyan computer scientist and businesswoman, who is the founder and chief executive officer of DataScience Limited, an IT research company.

Early life She was born in Nyamira County, in the western part of Kenya, circa 1988 to Evelyne Kerubo and Aloys Nyang'au. She is their last-born daughter in a family of eight children. After attending Nyamira Primary School & St. Mathews Academy for Primary School, Butere Girls High School for High School, she was admitted to the University of Nairobi, graduating in 2010, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. She has self-taught expertise in geographic information systems (GIS), data mining and analysis.

Career After university, for the next six years, she led Kenya's Open Data Initiative, nudging the government to make more information open and publicly available.