Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Mentor at Ignyte by DIFC, a key Dubai Digital Economy Strategy initiative empowering startups. I'm bringing FinTech expertise to startups in the GCC & beyond to foster innovation and growth.

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos

• Lab49 is a specialist consultancy that designs and develops bespoke and innovative technology solutions for the financial markets.
• Architected Agentic AI Strategy
• ↳ Leading the development of autonomous agent workflows for a major MNO.
• Delivered Banking Digital Transformation
• ↳ Reduced customer onboarding time from 22 days to <1 hour and Product subscription time from hours to <5 minutes for a Top-Tier Regional Bank.
• Organizational Leadership
• ↳ Revamped product recruitment standards globally, implementing new evaluation metrics that increased talent density.
• Industry Recognition
• ↳ Selected by AWS as the only capital markets firm demonstrating autonomous agents in their Global Partner Hackathon.
• Built a GenAI system to improve the quality of large, complex backlogs

Jan 2017 – May 2024 · 7 yrs 4 mos · Lagos, Nigeria

• QuickCheck is a branchless credit-led Nigerian Fintech that has used AI to offer banking services to local micro-entrepreneurs and SMEs since its inception.
• Launched the MVP app over a weekend to prove we could acquire cheaply and users were willing to share their data
• Grew the company from 0 to 150+ employees in two geographies
• Mobile App growth from 0 to 4m+ downloads, 500k+ customers, 4.5★/5 rating, 200k reviews
• Defined the product and technology processes and best practices
• Mentored and recruited multiple teams (including Product, Tech, and Data Science)
• Negotiated first full blockchain-based partnership with Goldfinch and raised funds using their crypto/blockchain protocols

Feb 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · Lagos, Nigeria

• Your convenient, fast and secure way to pay in Nigeria. Pay your utility bills, buy airtime or simply transfer money to friends - it's all there at your fingertips.

Oct 2014 – Dec 2019 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Geneva Area, Switzerland

• Seedstars is a Swiss-based private group of companies that develops tech entrepreneurship & invest in the most promising entrepreneurs across 80+ emerging markets.-
• Set up offices and scaled operations in multiple geographies, including Portugal, Myanmar, and Nigeria
• Scaled the tech organization to 30+ people and seedstars as a whole to 200+ people
• Recruited and coached multiple teams across diverse geographies and cultures
• Defined architecture and successfully led PCI DSS Service Provider L1 certification for a payment company
• Fundraising for operations in Nigeria and Myanmar

Jan 2014 – Sep 2014 · 8 mos · Geneva Area, Switzerland

• Coordination (team lead) of high accuracy acquisition of 3D data for golf and ski mobile apps.
• Design and implementation of firmware for the TeraRanger line of sensors

Jan 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · Geneva Area, Switzerland

• Worked in Atlas Tier0 Group. While there worked on several projects:
• Consolidation and rationalization of the deployment of all the Tier-0 software (physical and virtual server using automation tools - puppet)
• Development of grid (CERN worldwide computing grid) monitoring tools using Python/Django, JQuery, Backbone
• ATLAS code repository management tool using Python/Django, JQuery
• Event Database architecture and implementation (multi-terabyte database) using HBase
• Hadoop cluster deployment for log analysis

Feb 2010 – Jul 2011 · 1 yr 5 mos

• I was responsible for teaching the laboratory component of:
• Numeric Programming (Fortran),
• Databases
• Computer Architecture
• Topics of Numeric Tools

Sep 2006 – Nov 2011 · 5 yrs 2 mos

• Worked on several research projects, mostly connected with Artificial Intelligence / natural language processing
• Managed physical and virtual servers of the Center of Information Technology infrastructure
• Network and systems administration in Linux, DevOps, systems integration based on Linux, and 2nd line specialized support.

Jan 2004 – Mar 2006 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Évora Area, Portugal

• I was responsible for teaching the laboratory of Programacao I (Haskell)

Jun 2009 – Sep 2009 · 3 mos · Geneva Area, Switzerland

• I worked in ATLAS tier-0 group. Responsible for the design and implementation of a specialized database interaction tool. The tool was developed in Python using the Django framework.

Aug 2007 – Oct 2009 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• I was a Co-founder, Architect and System Administrator.
• About the project:
• The Futmix project was a Social Network dedicated to football. In Futmix, fans could communicate, watch goals, view scores, etc
• This project was developed from scratch using the Django web framework (Python), by a team of 4 people, using Agile methodologies.

May 2007 – Aug 2008 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Completely redesigned the messaging communication infra-structure. This work was done remotely, part of it was paid by Google in the SoC programme.

Mar 2006 – Sep 2006 · 6 mos · Austria

• Designed and implemented a new system architecture for one of the company's expert systems;
• Redesigned the network architecture, did server consolidation and implemented backup systems.
• The front-end servers were Linux Apache running mod_php, Solaris for database and back-end and Bacula as the backup solution (tape and disk).

Sep 2000 – Nov 2003 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Designed and implemented a multiple game gaming machine software that was integrated into a custom hardware solution.