Before product design, I spent five years in banking, where I learned to connect customer needs with the business metrics behind them.
Curiosity
I ask why before how
Pragmatism
I respect constraints
Responsibility
I design with consequences in mind
Five years managing client relationships and growing portfolios, sitting across the desk from people whose money problems were never abstract. That's where I learned what still drives my work: when a financial product fails, someone's rent, business, remittance, or payroll is on the other side.
Curiosity pulled me into tech. I made the switch through self-study and bootcamps in front-end engineering and UX design while still working full-time, which is why I'm as comfortable in an engineering standup as in a stakeholder review.
Design stuck because it let me influence how decisions get made.
Most of what I've shipped since is not the glamorous part of a product. It's onboarding and verification, merchant dashboards, admin tooling, the internal search service a business runs on. Software people are required to use to do their job, where a confusing screen costs money rather than a bounce. That's as true in a distributor portal or a claims desk as it is in a payments app, which is why I don't think of myself as only a fintech designer.
Today, I’m usually involved before the brief is fully formed, making sense of the problem, the constraints, and what is worth solving.
Where I am now
I'm open to senior and lead product design roles, remote or contract, and available now. Based in Lagos (UTC+1), I've spent most of the last five years working with distributed teams across the UK, Europe and North America.