Gavin Chesebe

Energetic, AI-native junior project manager with a track record of driving complex, multi-stakeholder digital products from idea to launch — on time and within scope. Experienced coordinating cross-functional teams across hackathons, climate-tech ventures, and academic projects in high-ambiguity environments. Daily user of Claude, Google AI Studio, and Notion AI to automate, summarise, and accelerate delivery workflows.

Obsessively organised, calm under pressure, and deeply motivated by helping founders turn bold ideas into real products.

Project Lead — RainBank Climate Insurance Platform at Independent / Entrepreneurship (2025-01 – Present)

• Scoped and led end-to-end delivery of a zero-premium drought insurance MVP powered by carbon credits, coordinating a full technology stack: Streamlit dashboard, M-Pesa payment integration, Africa's Talking SMS/USSD flows, and NASA POWER satellite rainfall data APIs.
• Defined product requirements, created user journey maps, and managed iterative build cycles from concept to working prototype — maintaining a live tracker of features, blockers, and launch milestones.
• Used Claude and Google AI Studio daily to accelerate documentation, draft stakeholder briefs, and generate structured test scenarios — cutting research-to-prototype time by an estimated 60%.
• Coordinated farmer onboarding UX and policy documentation for rural Kenyan end users, ensuring accessibility across low-bandwidth and feature-phone environments.

Hackathon Project Coordinator — Stanford × DeepMind AI Hackathon at Competitive / Event-Based (2025-04 – 2025-04)

• Led ideation and project scoping strategy for a 48-hour AI hackathon, coordinating across technical and non-technical contributors under extreme time pressure.
• Structured the team's AI tool workflow using Google AI Studio and FastShot.ai; managed deliverable timelines, assigned workstreams, and ran daily stand-up syncs.
• Prepared pitch documentation and investor-facing narrative, synthesising complex AI concepts into clear, compelling founder-level storytelling for VC-oriented evaluation panels.
• Maintained a live risk log and action tracker throughout, escalating blockers proactively to keep the project on scope before the final submission deadline.

Strategy & Coordination Lead — AYSC Climate Hackathon 2026 at African Youth for Sustainable Change (2026-02 – 2026-06)

• Coordinated multi-track ideation across Finance & Resilience, Agriculture, and Water themes; managed stakeholder input from mentors, co-founders, and domain experts to converge on a single flagship concept: Kijani Credit — a climate action credit score unlocking green microloans.
• Produced structured project briefs, pitch decks, and scenario analyses for three competing product ideas (AgriShield, Maji Smart, Kijani Credit), enabling rapid evaluation and decision-making by the leadership team.
• Tracked preparation milestones across a four-month runway to the Sarit Expo Centre event, keeping team momentum and documentation current throughout.

Academic Project Coordinator — Media & Technology Coursework at University (2025 – Present)

• Managed concurrent academic project deadlines across programming (C language algorithms, control structures, flowchart design) and media studies (HCC 108: digital convergence, agenda-setting theory, social media KPI analysis).
• Built personal project tracking systems and documentation templates to manage overlapping deadlines — applying the same organised, system-first approach to academic delivery as to client-facing product work.
• Leveraged AI tools (Claude) to accelerate research synthesis, draft structured write-ups, and review work before submission, developing a clear framework for human-AI collaboration in high-output environments.

Bachelor of Science in Information & Communication Technology – University (2025)