Demonstrated product leadership across core payments infrastructure, distributed platform architectures and regulated B2B systems, preceded by eight years engineering high- volume transaction engines. Multiple products taken from zero to production; a multi- million-dollar build-versus-buy decision owned for a leading international bank; automated compliance engines built across complex African trade corridors. Because that foundation started on the engineering floor, I can judge whether an opportunity is real and what it will cost to serve before an estimate comes back — Proficient in systematic AI-augmented delivery that has compressed engineering estimates roughly fourfold.
At Investec, I shaped the vendor evaluation and build-versus-buy framework for the bank’s next-generation AML screening engine. I modelled total cost of ownership and integration risk across twelve enterprise vendors, then led Scrum delivery as acting Product Owner for the CSTech integration team.
At Unizmo, I redesigned an on-device vehicle recognition pipeline, reducing inference latency from 10.0 seconds to 0.2. I also refocused the product experience after user discovery, helping lift post-MVP engagement by ~60% and scale to 220 active commercial deployments.
