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Calgary, Alberta · Available for Advisory

I architect and ship intelligent financial platforms — from infrastructure to product.

Over 12 years building and leading across fintech in Nigeria and Canada. I sit at the rare intersection of platform engineering, product leadership, and regulated financial services — and I use that to build things most people can't.

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12+
Years in fintech
30+
Credit unions served
$58B
AUM on platforms I've shaped
2
Countries · 1 track record
Adesoji Aiyemonase
What I Do

Two disciplines. One strategic advantage.

Most people bring either an engineering mind or a product mind to fintech. I bring both — and that's exactly why I can design a system that's both architecturally sound and user-outcomes focused.

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Track 1

AI Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

Designing and operating cloud-native platforms in regulated financial environments. From EKS at scale to OAuth/OIDC identity delegation, security architecture for fintech, and — increasingly — the infrastructure layer that makes AI systems safe to run in production.

AWS / EKS Kubernetes DevOps / SRE OAuth · OIDC AI Infrastructure IaC / Terraform Well-Architected Docker / ECR
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Track 2

AI Product Leadership in Digital Banking

Leading product strategy and delivery for financial platforms at scale. My specialty is translating complex regulatory, technical, and customer constraints into products that actually ship — and stay stable once live. Credit union digital banking, Interac integrations, and AI-readiness roadmaps.

Product Strategy Digital Banking Credit Unions Interac Platform Roadmaps CX Management Agile / OKRs AI Product
Work

Selected Case Studies

Three stories that illustrate what I actually do — the scale, the constraints, and what it took to get it done.

Celero Solutions · Product Leadership

Xpress Digital Banking — Canadian Credit Union Platform at $58B AUM

Led product strategy and delivery for Xpress, Celero Solutions' digital banking platform serving 30+ Canadian credit unions. The core challenge was adapting a complex financial product to meet Canadian regulatory requirements — a deep "Canadalization" effort spanning compliance frameworks, localized workflows, and native Interac payment integrations. The work required bridging product, engineering, compliance, and 30+ institutional clients simultaneously, each with their own member expectations and legacy system dependencies. The result was a stable, scalable platform handling billions in member transactions with a significantly improved client satisfaction score.

30+
Credit unions on platform
$58B
AUM under management
Full
Interac integration
Platform Engineering · Infrastructure Leadership

EKS-Based Fintech Infrastructure — Security, Scale, and Well-Architected Compliance

Architected and operated cloud-native infrastructure for financial services workloads on Amazon EKS — spanning containerized microservices, IAM/OIDC identity delegation, secure secrets management, and AWS Well-Architected Framework audits. A key focus was establishing enterprise-grade security patterns in regulated environments: OAuth 2.0 / OIDC flows, network segmentation, and audit-ready logging pipelines. Terraform-based IaC ensured reproducibility and drift prevention across multi-account AWS Organizations. This infrastructure approach became the foundation later adapted for AI workload readiness — LLM serving, vector databases, and GPU-aware scheduling.

100%
IaC-managed infra
AWS
Well-Architected audited
Multi
Account AWS Organization
BlickNG · Fintech in Nigeria

Building Fintech Infrastructure in an Emerging Market — Lessons from Nigeria

Before Canada, over a decade spent building financial products and infrastructure across Nigerian fintech — including early roles at Guaranty Trust Bank and later engineering and product leadership at BlickNG and P2Vest. Operating in environments with infrastructure constraints, regulatory ambiguity, and rapidly evolving mobile-first consumer expectations sharpened a problem-solving instinct that formal processes alone can't teach. These experiences inform how I now approach AI readiness in financial services: not as a greenfield luxury, but as a practical engineering and product challenge that has to work under real-world constraints.

10+
Years Nigerian fintech
GTB
Guaranty Trust Bank
2
Continents, one playbook
Experience

Where I've Worked

CA
Senior Product Manager / Platform Engineering Lead
Celero Solutions
2022 – Present · Calgary, Canada

Led product strategy for the Xpress digital banking platform serving 30+ Canadian credit unions. Owned the Canadalization project — adapting the platform to Canadian regulatory requirements and integrating native Interac payment rails. Bridged product, engineering, and compliance across a $58B AUM institutional client base.

CA
DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
CGI
2020 – 2022 · Calgary, Canada

Designed and operated AWS cloud infrastructure for enterprise financial services clients. Led AWS Well-Architected Framework reviews, EKS workload migrations, and security architecture for regulated environments. Implemented Terraform IaC across multi-account AWS Organizations.

NG
Product Leader / Technical PM
BlickNG
2017 – 2020 · Lagos, Nigeria

Led product and engineering teams building financial services infrastructure for the Nigerian market. Owned both product roadmap and DevOps practices — a rare dual mandate that shaped a holistic view of how infrastructure decisions become product outcomes.

NG
Platform / Infrastructure Engineering
Arnergy & P2Vest
2013 – 2017 · Nigeria

Cloud infrastructure and DevOps delivery across energy-tech (Arnergy) and peer-to-peer lending (P2Vest) — building reliability patterns in infrastructure-constrained environments. Deep experience with the practical tradeoffs of cloud adoption outside major markets.

NG
Business Analyst / Technical Specialist
Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank)
2008 – 2013 · Lagos, Nigeria

Early career foundation in large-scale financial services. Deep exposure to the operational and technical complexity of banking infrastructure — a grounding that informs every platform and product decision since.

Credentials

Certifications

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Product Leader Certification™
Product School · May 2024
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Cloud Digital Leader
Google Cloud · January 2023
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Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
Microsoft · November 2022
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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services · December 2021
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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
Amazon Web Services · January 2022
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B.Eng Mechanical Engineering
University of Ilorin
Thinking

Writing & Ideas

Opinionated takes on AI infrastructure, digital banking, and what it actually takes to ship intelligent systems in regulated environments.

AI · Fintech

What credit unions get wrong about AI readiness

AI readiness isn't a model problem — it's a data, governance, and infrastructure problem. Most credit unions are further behind than they think, and further ahead than they feel.

Coming soon Read →
Infrastructure

Identity delegation in agentic AI systems — lessons from fintech

OAuth/OIDC patterns we built for regulated financial services turn out to be exactly what AI agent authorization needs. Here's why.

Coming soon Read →
Infrastructure · AI

Why Platform Engineering matters more than DevOps in a post-AI world

The shift from DevOps to Platform Engineering is already underway. AI accelerates it — but only if your platform team is thinking about internal developer experience the right way.

Coming soon Read →
Product

Building for trust in digital banking: what Interac taught me about product design

Interac isn't just a payment rail — it's a trust system. What integrating it deeply taught me about designing financial products for Canadian consumers.

Coming soon Read →

These pieces are in progress. If you'd like to read them when published — or have a specific topic you'd want my take on — reach out directly or connect on LinkedIn.

Contact

Let's Talk

Open to advisory mandates, consulting, and senior leadership conversations in AI infrastructure and digital financial services.

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Whether you're a credit union CTO thinking about AI readiness, a fintech hiring for a role at the intersection of product and platform engineering, or a consulting client with a complex financial services problem — I'm happy to talk.

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Location
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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