Understand technology.
SOLVE WITH COMPUTING works across two areas. Through technology education, we help people understand technology and develop practical capability with structured programmes, real projects, and mentorship. Through technology solutions, we apply that same understanding to developing practical digital solutions for real-world needs.
What is SOLVE WITH COMPUTING?
SOLVE WITH COMPUTING is a technology education and technology solutions organisation based in Mombasa, Kenya. It exists to help people understand technology deeply — and to apply that understanding to real-world problems. The two areas below are distinct: each has its own audience, its own body of work, and its own place to start.
Technology Education
Structured programmes that help people understand how technology works and develop the practical ability to build with it — through teaching, deliberate practice, real projects, and mentorship.
Who it serves
Prospective learners at any starting point — from building digital confidence with Digital Literacy to developing professional capability with Full-Stack Software Engineering, taught in Mombasa.
Technology Solutions
Designing and developing practical digital solutions for real-world needs — software and web applications, SaaS products, AI-powered features, and e-learning platforms.
Who it serves
Organisations, founders, and institutions that need software or digital platforms built around a real, practical need.
Understand First.
Build Next.
Both areas follow the same principle. Understanding comes before implementation — in what we teach and in what we build.
We are building an institution where technology is not treated merely as a collection of tools to operate, but as a discipline to understand, practise, and apply responsibly.
The tools are changing.
Understanding still matters.
Artificial intelligence is changing how software is built, information is analysed, and digital products are created. As these tools become more capable, the value of people who can understand technology, reason through problems, and make sound decisions becomes even more important.
We are preparing people to work with technology — not simply consume it.
AI can accelerate many parts of technical work. But tools do not remove the need to understand problems, evaluate solutions, make decisions, and take responsibility for what gets built.
That is why SOLVE WITH COMPUTING places deep understanding at the centre of both areas of our work. In our teaching, learners develop the knowledge and judgment required to use modern technology effectively — including AI. In our solutions work, the same judgment governs what we build and why.
Our principle
Powerful tools create greater possibilities when people have the understanding to direct them well.
In our teaching
Learners meet the idea before the tool: what it does, why it exists, and when it applies — then practise, build, and debug until the understanding holds without step-by-step instructions.
In our solutions work
We define the problem and its constraints first, then choose technology and build — checking that what we deliver actually answers the need it was meant to address.
What this means for our work
We develop capability that remains valuable as technology evolves.
Understand the foundations
Strong technical foundations allow people to understand what tools are doing rather than simply accepting their outputs.
Ask better questions
Technology becomes more useful when people can define problems clearly, reason through possibilities, and communicate precise requirements.
Evaluate what technology produces
Generated code, data, and other outputs still require human judgment, testing, verification, and context.
Build with purpose
The goal is not simply to use powerful tools, but to apply them to meaningful problems and create systems that people can rely on.
Information is everywhere.
Capability is developed through practice.
Learners today have unprecedented access to knowledge. The challenge is no longer simply finding information — it is developing the understanding, practical experience, feedback, and confidence needed to apply that knowledge effectively.
Different paths. Shared purpose.
Strong technology education can take many forms.
SOLVE WITH COMPUTING is designed to complement — not replace — the valuable learning that already happens through formal education and independent study.
Academic Foundations
Universities provide valuable conceptual foundations, theoretical knowledge, analytical discipline, and broader academic development. They remain an important part of the technology education ecosystem.
Self-Directed Learning
Documentation, tutorials, open-source projects, and online courses give motivated learners enormous freedom to explore, research, and continue learning independently.
Structured Practical Learning
SOLVE WITH COMPUTING brings structure, deliberate practice, project work, code feedback, and mentorship together to help learners turn knowledge into practical technical capability.
We create the environment where knowledge becomes something learners can use.
Our programmes are designed around a simple idea: learners develop stronger capability when they have a clear path, opportunities to practise, meaningful projects, and people who can guide them when they encounter difficult problems.
Structured progression
A coherent sequence that takes learners from foundational concepts toward increasingly complex technical work.
Mentorship & feedback
Direct guidance, code reviews, and feedback that help learners identify gaps and improve their thinking.
Practical application
Concepts are reinforced through exercises, problem-solving, and projects that require learners to apply what they know.
Current technology
Learning materials evolve alongside the tools, practices, and technologies used in modern software development.
Learning community
Cohort interaction creates accountability, collaboration, discussion, and opportunities to learn from others.
Understand First. Build Next.
Our methodology is built around a simple principle: meaningful technical capability comes from understanding, practice, and application. Learners are not simply taken through a sequence of lessons; they progressively develop the ability to think, build, troubleshoot, and learn for themselves.
Understand the concept
We begin with the underlying idea. Learners understand what a technology does, why it exists, and how it fits into the systems around it before being asked to implement it.
Understand its purpose
Concepts are connected to real problems and practical situations. Learners develop the ability to recognise when a technology is useful, when it is not, and why a particular approach makes sense.
Practise deliberately
Learners apply each concept through focused exercises and guided problem-solving. Practice reinforces understanding and develops the reasoning required to work without step-by-step instructions.
Build real projects
Understanding is taken into increasingly realistic projects. Learners make decisions, work through trade-offs, integrate multiple concepts, and experience the complexity of building actual software.
Debug and reason
Problems are treated as part of the learning process. Learners learn to investigate unexpected behaviour, identify causes, evaluate possible solutions, and fix problems systematically.
Develop independence
The ultimate goal is capability beyond the classroom. Learners develop the confidence and reasoning skills to continue learning, solve unfamiliar problems, and build independently while knowing when to seek guidance.
The goal is not simply to complete a programme or learn a collection of technologies. It is to develop people who can understand unfamiliar problems, make informed technical decisions, build useful solutions, and continue learning as technology changes.
Opening the door to computing.
Building toward a technology academy.
Our technology education work begins with two complementary flagship programmes: Digital Literacy for building essential digital confidence, and Full-Stack Software Engineering for developing advanced technical capability. The longer-term vision is a broader technology education institution serving learners across multiple disciplines, alongside the technology solutions SOLVE WITH COMPUTING develops.
Starting Point
Build digital confidence and technical capability
Our two flagship programmes address complementary needs: Digital Literacy helps learners become confident technology users, while Full-Stack Software Engineering develops the deeper technical capability needed to build technology.
Next Step
Expand into complementary disciplines
As the institution grows, additional programmes can extend the same educational philosophy into data, mobile development, design, cybersecurity, and other areas of computing.
Long-Term Direction
Grow into a broader technology organisation
The ambition is to keep building rigorous, practical education while SOLVE WITH COMPUTING develops its technology solutions work, preparing people for an increasingly technology-driven world.
Flagship Programmes
Two pathways. One educational mission.
Our flagship programmes serve learners at different points in their technology journey — from developing essential digital confidence to learning how to design and build software.
Digital Literacy
A practical programme designed to help learners develop the confidence and essential skills needed to use digital devices, online services, productivity tools, and the internet effectively and safely.
Full-Stack Software Engineering
A 24-week, instructor-led learning experience combining structured teaching, deliberate practice, mentorship, code review, debugging, and progressively more complex projects.
Future Academic Pathways
A growing academic portfolio
These disciplines represent the direction of the academy as capacity, partnerships, and resources develop. They are part of the vision — not presented as programmes currently being offered.
Data Analysis
Developing the ability to turn raw data into meaningful insights through statistical reasoning, SQL, data preparation, and visualisation.
Data Science
Building toward advanced analytical capability through statistics, machine learning, modelling, and data-driven problem solving.
Mobile App Development
Extending software development into mobile platforms, with an emphasis on cross-platform engineering, application architecture, and mobile user experience.
Graphics & Web Design
Developing visual and interface design capability through design systems, typography, user experience, prototyping, and digital communication.
Cybersecurity
Building practical foundations in protecting systems, understanding threats, analysing vulnerabilities, and designing more secure technology solutions.
Artificial Intelligence
Developing the capability to design, apply, and evaluate AI systems responsibly — from machine learning models to AI-assisted products and workflows.
The outcome we work toward
From learner to independent technology practitioner.
We are building technology education for people at different points in their journey — from becoming confident digital users to becoming capable technology builders who can approach unfamiliar problems methodically and continue learning as technology changes.
Turning ideas and real-world problems
into technology.
Alongside our education programmes, SOLVE WITH COMPUTING applies computing to real-world problems and develops practical digital solutions. Our focus includes software applications, digital platforms, and the tools organisations and communities rely on.
Businesses, organisations, founders, and institutions that have a practical problem worth solving with software — and that want the problem understood before it is built.
Software & Web Applications
We build software and web applications around specific, practical needs — from internal tools to customer-facing products.
SaaS Products
We develop software-as-a-service products that address repeatable problems and can be maintained and extended over time.
AI-Powered Solutions
We apply artificial intelligence where it meaningfully improves a workflow, a decision, or a piece of work — not as decoration.
E-Learning Platforms
We design and build digital learning platforms and content systems, including the platform that supports our own programmes.
Our solutions work applies the same discipline as our teaching: understand the problem clearly, then build something that works.
Building technology capability
where it can create lasting value.
SOLVE WITH COMPUTING is starting in Mombasa with a simple conviction: people should not only consume technology — they should have the knowledge and practical ability to understand, build, improve, and secure it.
Starting in Mombasa
Building locally before expanding regionally
The opportunity is not simply to train people to use technology. It is to develop people who can create with it.
Businesses, institutions, and communities increasingly depend on digital systems. That creates a growing need for people who can reason about technology, translate problems into technical solutions, and continue learning as the technology changes.
Our mission is to build that understanding and that ability locally: developing people who can create with technology, and applying the same discipline to practical digital solutions that organisations and communities can use.
Build local capability
Develop people who can understand and create technology, not only operate it.
Strengthen the talent pipeline
Give motivated learners a structured path from foundational knowledge to practical capability.
Where capability can be applied
From learning technology to solving problems with it
The disciplines we develop are not ends in themselves. They provide tools people can use to address practical challenges across organisations, industries, and communities.
Digital Systems & Software
Preparing people to design, build, and maintain software that responds to real organisational and community needs.
Data & Decision-Making
Developing the analytical capability needed to turn data into useful information for businesses, institutions, and communities.
Secure Digital Infrastructure
Building awareness of security, privacy, and responsible technology as more services and organisations become digitally connected.
Local Innovation
Equipping local builders to move from identifying problems to designing and developing technology-based solutions.
Our ambition is to establish a strong local foundation in Mombasa, develop a repeatable model for technology education, and grow that capability as the institution expands.
A founder grounded in technology education.
SOLVE WITH COMPUTING is being built from direct experience teaching, mentoring, developing curriculum, and helping learners turn technical concepts into practical skills.
Yahya Mohamed Abdulle
Founder & Technology Educator
I'm Yahya Mohamed Abdulle, a technology educator, mentor, curriculum developer, and the founder of SOLVE WITH COMPUTING.
My work has centred on helping people understand software development rather than simply follow instructions. That experience shaped the educational model behind SOLVE WITH COMPUTING: structured learning, deliberate practice, practical projects, and close mentorship.
I have seen the difference that structured, instructor-led learning can make. Learners benefit not only from access to technical content, but from someone who can explain difficult concepts, challenge their reasoning, review their work, and help them work through problems when the path is unclear.
That experience is the foundation on which I am building SOLVE WITH COMPUTING — starting with Digital Literacy and Full-Stack Software Engineering, and growing toward a broader organisation working across technology education and technology solutions.
Background
Computer Science
Experience
Teaching & Mentorship
Focus
Practical Capability
The vision is bigger than a single programme: build an institution that gives more people the opportunity to understand technology deeply, practise it seriously, and contribute to the digital economy.
Questions About SOLVE WITH COMPUTING
Clear answers about our programmes, learning model, technology solutions, and the broader vision behind the organisation.
Where would you like to start?
Whether you want to develop your own capability, have a digital solution built, or explore working together, there is a place to begin.