As CTO at SONA, I harness cutting-edge technology to tell the story of humanity through SONA's gamified learning platform and Mastercard program: empowering afrodiaspora with financial literacy and fostering a deep connection to the African heritage.

Flare Labs is a technology consulting firm which delivers turnkey solutions for fintech brands.• Delivering card programs, overseeing critical aspects of issuer and acquirer processing. This includes integrations with program manager APIs & transaction authorisation interfaces, risk monitoring specification, acquirer and merchant API integrations• Developing custom card frames and card design specifications, aligning them with the brand guidelines and preferences of clients to create visually appealing and distinctive payment cards• Leading the design, specification, and implementation of APIs, seamlessly integrating embedded finance platforms with client platforms, resulting in enhanced functionality and improved user experience• Overseeing the delivery and integration of eKYC and AML solutions, ensuring high standards of compliance and security

Rancard enables global brands to connect with relevant audiences through AI-powered conversationaldiscovery and activity-based predictive engagement.• Delivered AI-driven engagement features on Cloud SDPe - subscriptions management platform for digital telco products and services• Implemented market adoption strategy on Campaign App and worked with brands including Fido, AB InBev, Vivo Energy, Diageo, HD+ , Unilever & Danone - reaching over 13.5 million consumers during brand activation campaigns• Scaled up (architecture, redesign, uptime and delivery of) mobile money payments and disbursements platform — PayApp, as part of the Rancard mobility revenue assurance platform for brands including the National Trust Holding Company (NTHC)• Deployed R2 conversational support bot for brands including MTN to manage first-line consumerengagement for their over 15+ million subscribers

Beam is a bitcoin-based financial services company focused on the West African Market.• Scaled bitcoin remittance service called Beam Pay which allowed users to send Bitcoins to Beam, andrecipients back home received mobile money • Pivoted Beam Pay into a value-remittance long-distance concierge service for Africans in the diaspora, which got featured by the BBC• Developed operations playbook, with focus on premium customer service and fulfilment whichled to retention and growth of customer base by 170% in Q1 post-launch• Content marketing and development of African Diaspora Entrepreneurs Series with averagereadership of 55k

Vestracker is information management service for multi-national freight forwarders to manage operations, communication, finances and sales on one platform.• Integrated payments module which enabled platform service payments in over 35 countries• Implemented application and API optimisations which increased API throughput by over 26.7%• Post-sales technical support which led to increased retention of enterprise clients and resolved bugswhich reduced application downtime to under 4.8 minutes each month