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Product leader · Banking, payments & agentic AI

I'm Olabode — I don't just ship products.
I make sure people actually use them.

12 years building banking, payments, and government technology across six African markets. I own the OMNI Channel banking suite at Inlaks — retail and corporate internet banking, WhatsApp, voice, paperless and CRM on one platform — and build the payment infrastructure underneath it, from government revenue collection to ACH, RTGS and national switch interoperability. Lately, agentic AI workflows.

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Olabode Ogunfuye

Certifications

Selected work

Products that changed how institutions move money, data and people.

Banking · OMNI Channel · Multi-Market · Inlaks

One banking suite, five countries — retail, corporate, WhatsApp, voice and CRM.

I own the OMNI Channel banking suite at Inlaks: retail and corporate internet banking, WhatsApp banking, voice banking, paperless branch operations and CRM, delivered to banks in Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Liberia and Sierra Leone as a single platform. That means strategy, roadmap and pricing across six product lines — plus multi-bank and multi-currency localisation, core banking integration, and the adoption work that decides whether any of it actually gets used.

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Pierflow team at World Health Expo Lagos 2026

Healthtech · API Platform · 0→1 · West Africa

Building the connectivity layer for healthcare in Africa.

Joined Pierflow as API Product Manager to architect an API-first, AI-native platform connecting hospitals, payers, suppliers, and patients across Nigeria and West Africa. Designed the Paper-to-Digital Engine (6,000 FHIR-ready records/day), the HMS Integration API, and an embedded insurance distribution model. Led partnership development at World Health Expo Lagos 2026 — opening active conversations with LinkHMS, Healthcare Federation of Nigeria, GE Healthcare, PharmAccess, and Africa CDC.

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Regtech · Fintech · 0→1 · Nigeria

From tax filing to full corporate compliance — Nigeria's first digital-first tax platform.

Joined SpireCore as founding product lead to build Taxspire — Nigeria's first accessible, digital-first tax compliance platform for entrepreneurs and small businesses. In six months, with two engineers, we shipped five modules across tax registration, invoicing, advisory and tax clearance. I then expanded the business model beyond tax filing into know-your-business (KYB) services for corporates — adding Corporate Affairs Commission company registration and statutory filings, which became the platform's fastest-growing revenue line in its first months of trading.

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Taxspire team
CPay product launch

Fintech · Government · West Africa

A payment platform that crossed borders — and changed behaviour.

Led CPay from concept to live deployment across Liberia and Sierra Leone — expanding into five new government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) and generating over $1M in revenue. The real challenge wasn't the build; it was getting institutions to change how they moved money. I drove the adoption strategy alongside the product.

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Government · SaaS · Financial Oversight

Turning a one-off government tool into a $30M SaaS platform.

Designed an Audit Management Information System for the Sierra Leone Government — then repositioned it as a multi-tenant SaaS product. Defined the product vision, mapped the customer journey from manual audit workflows to a digitised system, and aligned a cross-functional team on a roadmap targeting $30M in recurring revenue over five years.

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Audit follow-up session in Sierra Leone
SUNU Health Insurance team

Healthtech · Insurance · Africa

Health insurance that actually works for the people using it.

Built a health insurance management suite for SUNU Health, serving operations across 17 countries. The focus was never just the software — it was redesigning the operational experience so that customer-facing teams could serve better, faster, and with less friction. Deep stakeholder mapping drove the product requirements.

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HMIS · Compliance · CI/CD

A health information system shipped 40% faster — without cutting corners.

Owned the full product lifecycle for a Health Management Information System at Vatebra — from discovery through compliance sign-off and launch. Introduced CI/CD with Jenkins, reducing release turnaround by 40%. Managed legal, clinical, and engineering stakeholders to ensure the roadmap stayed compliant and customer-centric throughout.

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CPay team brainstorming session

Payment Infrastructure · Central Bank · API Product

The account-validation layer a central bank now runs on.

Designed Account Mapper, the national account-validation and BBAN layer adopted by the Central Bank of Liberia under the World Bank-funded LIFT-P programme. I defined the Ingress and Name Enquiry API contracts, versioning and acceptance testing, drove integration across nine commercial banks, and had the architecture reviewed against digital public infrastructure standards — closing $400,000 of revenue leakage from payment errors and fraud along the way.

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Proptech · Payments · Multi-Market

Rent collection that stops chasing people.

Led product and transformation for Porchplus, a property management platform for landlords and tenants. I took the MVP from concept to live across web and mobile, then built a multi-channel rent collection system spanning WhatsApp, SMS, email and in-app, and integrated PiggyVest wallet APIs so payments never had to leave the product. Alongside it I standardised the property onboarding and tenant management workflows that had been living in people's heads.

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RegTech · KYB · API Platform · 0→1

Register once, verify everywhere — KYB infrastructure for African businesses.

As embedded Head of Product at Innkorp, I lead a know-your-business platform that registers companies with Nigeria's Corporate Affairs Commission and stores the resulting records in a vault the business owns — reusable for bank and fintech onboarding under itemised, revocable consent. I own the partner API surface: handoff contracts, payload encryption, webhook delivery guarantees, request logging and an embeddable verification widget, plus the commercial packaging that took it to fintech platforms including PiggyVest.

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More work

Beyond the case studies

Treasury & Payment Rails

Delivered Treasury Single Account systems for Sierra Leone's Ministry of Finance, linking ministries into ACH, RTGS and national switch rails — improving central financial oversight and restoring institutional confidence in reporting.

Agentic AI Workflows

Design agentic workflows for product operations — Model Context Protocol tooling and connectors, large language model extraction pipelines with OCR fallback, confidence thresholding, and human-in-the-loop review where accuracy matters.

Pricing & Portfolio Roadmap

Own commercial packaging and the multi-year roadmap across six banking product lines — tiered by bank size and market, sequenced so shared platform work lands before channel-specific features.

Porchplus — Proptech Product

Led product and transformation for a property management platform: multi-channel rent collection across WhatsApp, SMS, email and in-app, plus PiggyVest wallet integration to keep payments on-platform.

Cross-functional Team Leadership

Directed teams of up to 20 — PMs, designers, and engineers — across six-year product programmes with extremely low staff turnover, plus an internship pipeline that added capacity without raising headcount cost.

Africa Code Week — Google Grant

3× Google Grant Award Winner (2017–2019) as Programme Manager at Codespark Foundation, coordinating schools, government agencies, and corporate sponsors including SAP.

Writing

Latest writing

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Product review

Lagos Life Review: A City App Built for How Lagos Actually Lives

A hands-on review of Lagos Life, the Nigerian browser life-sim: features, ads, player-run politics, what works, what doesn't, and what it needs to keep growing.

About

Adoption, not just delivery.

I'm Olabode — a product leader with 12 years building and commercialising banking, payments, and government technology across six African markets: Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and São Tomé and Príncipe.

Day to day I own the OMNI Channel banking suite at Inlaks and the payment infrastructure beneath it — including Account Mapper, the account-validation layer the Central Bank of Liberia adopted and nine commercial banks now integrate with. Alongside that I work zero-to-one: embedded Head of Product at Innkorp building KYB infrastructure, and API product lead at Pierflow, where agentic extraction pipelines turn paper records into standards-compliant health data.

What sets me apart is how I think about adoption, not just delivery. The best product in the world fails if it doesn't change how people work. So I design for behaviour change from the start — mapping journeys, engaging stakeholders early, and measuring outcomes well beyond go-live.

I hold a First Class degree in Computer Science, a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, and a Professional Scrum Master certification. I lead with data, move with urgency, and build with people in mind.

Capabilities

Product Strategy
Roadmap Management
Pricing & Packaging
OMNI Channel Banking
ACH / RTGS / Switch
Core Banking Integration
API Product Management
Agentic AI Workflows
KYB & RegTech
Agile / Scrum (PSM I)
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
Change Management & Adoption
Customer Journey Mapping
Cross-functional Leadership
JIRA · Figma · Power BI