Tochukwu Achebe

I Specialize in Designing Software, API Management & INTEGRATIONS.

I am a progressive thought leader guided by a self-mandate to deliver solutions that enable businesses through products and innovation.

I use my skill set to enable businesses by building, managing, and scaling digital products, leveraging technology to support business requirements.

The length of my professional career spans over seven years, and the breadth of my experience and competencies includes software architecture and design, e-commerce/open commerce, technical writing, product development, product management, API-as-a-product, sportsbook consulting (betting services for the West African market ), financial services (payments) & deposit insurance, aiding financial Inclusion in Nigeria through (identity management & agency banking). I currently lead platforms and integrations at RedCloud Technologies.

I hold a bachelor's degree in Computer Science & I am also a recipient of the Global Talent Award for outstanding achievements in Digital Technology by the UK home office through Tech Nation.

My mantra is that we are created to leave the world better than we met it and the best way to predict the future is to build it hence my passion for building digital products that improve our ways of life.

I speak French (intermediate) & English (fluent), I am an avid football fan (KTBFFH!!) and I love teaching about digital products and the web 👯‍♀️.

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Head of Platform services and Intergrations- Redcloud Technologies

2022– Present

Redcloud Technologies is an open commerce company operating across LATAM & Africa. The vision is to reinvent how financial services and products are delivered. The company's goal is to pioneer how more than 100 million businesses worldwide access any financial product easily and securely, to help them succeed in the fourth industrial revolution.

My role at Redcloud is to deliver on its mandate through third-party integrations and build a robust system that can scale to accommodate the subsequent billion users of the B2B marketplace, Payments system, or data services.

In addition to my role, I lead platform services strategy on the technical front to ensure we build the right products and reduce technical debt along the way. I am also a software architect at heart, this enables me to deliver my job effectively.

API, Product Manager- Interswitch group

2020– 2022

Interswitch is a technology company based in Nigeria known for solving problems related to electronic payments. My role at Interswitch enhances this as well as the digital ecosystem by building public and private APIs that foster partnerships for a prosperous Africa.

Driving the growth of API as a product and commoditizing our tools by reselling them as APIs.

Developing the Interswitch community for developers and improving their user experience.

Analyst, Verifyme Nigeria

2019 – 2020

Verifyme is a technology company solving Nigeria’s social-economic problem of access in terms of identity, at its core a KYC company however the role it plays in certain areas is to mitigate fraud or risk of doing business with bad actors.

My role at the company was simple, to drive growth which we successfully did by 378% increase in Identity verification after we launched MVP 2.0, a self-service verification platform and an API collection for businesses to plugin.