PRODUCT & TRANSFORMATION LEADER

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

12+ years building products and leading change across fintech, government, health, and logistics in West Africa. I work at the intersection of product strategy, customer experience design, and agile delivery — from first insight to lasting adoption.

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Olabode Ogunfuye

Certifications

Product Strategy — Kellogg (not started)
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

Building Nigeria's first consumer tax platform — ₦25M+ revenue in month one.

Joined SpireCore as founding product lead to build Taxspire — Nigeria's first accessible, digital-first tax compliance platform for entrepreneurs and SMEs. In six months, with two engineers, we launched five product modules including tax profiling, business registration, invoicing, and advisory booking, generating ₦25M+ in our first month 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 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 $2M 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 $2M 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 multiple African markets. 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

Fintech · Fraud Prevention · Central Bank

A $250K contract won by solving a problem nobody had named yet.

Identified a critical gap in CPay's payment validation layer and led the design of a BBAN Validator and Account Mapper feature — securing a $250,000 contract with the Central Bank of Liberia. This came from listening to users, not just managing requirements. Deep customer journey analysis revealed the root cause behind recurring payment errors and fraud incidents.

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Logistics · 0→1 · Growth

iSendApp: from product concept to 1,000 users without a marketing budget.

Advised iSendApp as they transformed a logistics concept into a scalable business. Shaped the MVP scope, defined the customer journey from first touch to retained user, and co-designed the GTM strategy that drove their first 1,000 users — with meaningfully improved retention from day one.

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Treasury Management System

Designed and deployed a Treasury Single Account Management System for Sierra Leone's Ministry of Finance — enhancing financial oversight and restoring stakeholder confidence.

Cross-functional Team Leadership

Directed teams of up to 12 — PMs, designers, and engineers — across six-year product programmes with extremely low staff turnover.

Porchplus — Proptech Advisory

Provided strategic product guidance for a property management startup: 200+ daily active users in month one and accepted into a top accelerator programme.

Agile Process Improvement

Implemented CI/CD and agile delivery frameworks at Vatebra — reducing release turnaround times by 40% across multiple deployment environments.

Talent & Internship Programme

Established an internship pipeline at Inlaks that cultivated emerging product talent — contributing to team growth while managing costs.

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.

About me

I'm Olabode — a product and transformation leader with 12+ years building and scaling software products across financial services, government, health, and logistics in West and Central Africa.

What sets me apart is how I think about adoption, not just delivery. I've learned that 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 customer journeys, engaging stakeholders early, and measuring outcomes beyond go-live.

I hold a First Class degree in Computer Science, a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, a Professional Scrum Master certification, and I'm currently completing Product Strategy at Kellogg Executive Education. I lead with data, move with urgency, and build with people in mind.

Product Strategy
Customer Journey Mapping
Stakeholder Management
Agile / Scrum (PSM I)
Process Improvement
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
Data-Driven Decision Making
Cross-functional Leadership
OKRs & Metrics
Design Thinking
Roadmapping
JIRA · Figma · Power BI