Joseph Bundala serves as Global Product Manager at ENGIE Energy Access (now Ignite Energy Access), leading hardware product introductions across nine African countries, including Nigeria, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, Mozambique, Benin, Ivory Coast, and Kenya. He is responsible for initiating product concepts, conducting market research, developing business cases and pilot strategies, as well as launching new products across multiple countries. Previously, he served as a Senior Engineering Associate at the Access to Energy Institute (A2EI), a nonprofit R&D organization focused on advancing solar technologies in developing countries, promoting productive energy-use solutions, and introducing clean cooking innovations. He led the A2EI R&D laboratory setup, defining the test equipment and tools required for product testing

 His expertise encompasses Product Development Processes, Research methodologies, and Project Management within the Renewable Energy sector. He also possesses technical literacy in Modeling and Simulation, MATLAB, PV System Design and Pricing, Data Analytics using R, Telecom Systems Integration, C Programming, GNU Octave, LabVIEW, and Embedded Systems & Electronics.

He acquired his Master of Science in Automation and Control Systems Engineering from The Silesian University of Technology in Poland. In his Master thesis titled Control of Electric Motors using ZedBoard, he designed an Autonomous Ground Vehicle with the aim of simulating power usage of Direct Current (DC) Motors when an engine is run by Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) or an Advanced RISC Machine (ARM)  processor. Furthermore, he graduated his Bachelor Degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering at The University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania with honors. 

Product Launch, Product Testing and Customer Visit

Laboratory Testing

I led these clean cooking experiments as part of new product introduction research and prototype testing

• Electric Clean Cooking

  • • Energy Efficiency of Pressure Cooker for Offgrid Setting

    • Tracking the Adoption of Electric Pressure Cookers among Mini-Grid Customers in Tanzania

Enthusiasm in Education, Secondary School and Knowledge Sharing:

I have written these topics for knowledge sharing in Embedded Systems, Automation and Controls in Educational platform to students and scholars in Tanzania.  

• Voluntary Tutoring - Tanzania Education forum Editor.

  • • Simulating HIV Infection Nonlinear Model by using Simulink

    • Mechanical Damper: Data Manipulation of RLC Step Response in Arduino via GNU Octave

    • Project: Design Mechanism to Control Robotic arm by Zynq Board

    • Experiment: RLC Capacitor Voltage tapping using Arduino- EMA and LSM Algorithms in Octave

    • Modeling and Simulation of a Car Damping System in GNU Octave

    • SCADA design: Simulation of Manual and Automatic monitoring system in LabVIEW

    • Autonomous System Design with ZedBoard

    • VHDL Programming

    • Transient Response in Electrical Circuits

• Prototype Designs

  • • Home Automation System using Arduino to monitor weight of a gas canister

    • Remote Monitoring System for Power Utilization in Agro-Machines

    • Automation of Cyclic Power Switching Mechanisms in Pressure Cooker using Microcontroller

    • HTML + PHP Web Interface for Data Analysis from Sensors

    • DC Motor Control by Pulse Width Modulation by Raspberry Pi

    • DC to DC Booster Circuit from 3Volts to 9Volts

Adventures, Fun and Moments