The tech enthusiast has acquired several years of professional software development experience working for African and British firms. With his startup Deimos, he helps companies migrate their data to the cloud.
Andrew Mori (photo) is a South African tech entrepreneur. In 2018, he co-founded Deimos, a Cape Town-based cloud-native security development and operations startup that he heads as the CEO.
Deimos was launched to help companies improve the services they offer. With its software engineering, cloud security, and platform modernization services among others, it helps avoid costly decision errors by giving them access to scalable, high-performing, and reliable systems.
“Our company is focused on helping businesses make smart decisions, particularly from the cloud perspective. It’s imperative to note that migrating to the cloud, if done incorrectly, can be a very costly, difficult, and demoralizing experience. So having vast experience before starting Deimos, I can help companies mitigate risks. Deimos is assisting companies looking to modernize their software systems,” its CEO told TechCabal in November 2022, during an episode of the My Life in Tech podcast. The startup, which currently operates in South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya, is Google Cloud’s largest partner in Africa. It is also a certified and experienced Amazon Web Services and Azure solutions architect.
Its CEO entered the professional world in 2007, working as a junior researcher at South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). In 2010, he spent seven months as a lecturer at Blake Hall College in the UK. He was later hired as a software engineer by Radical Company (from 2010 to 2011).
In 2012, he joined InventCommerce where he was successively lead Software Engineer and Technical Assurance Manager. In 2014, Konga Online Shopping appointed him as software engineering manager. In 2015, he became the associate director of engineering for the e-commerce firm before being promoted to the position of director of technology in 2016.
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