Engineer & systems builder · San Francisco
For seven years I’ve designed and shipped production ML systems, data platforms, and risk infrastructure at Chipper Cash, a fintech serving 10M+ people across seven African markets. I’m currently Head of Risk Intelligence & Automations there, and I write about systems, risk, and the books I cannot stop turning over.
Selected work
Head of Risk Intelligence & Automations
Why I replaced a $250K/year third-party case-management vendor with an in-house platform. Two years on, it has carried 53,000+ alerts, 20,000+ cases, and 900+ regulatory filings across seven markets.
Head of Risk Intelligence & Automations
An LLM-powered pipeline that reads partner fraud reports, resolves identity, and acts in seconds, replacing 30 minutes of analyst transcription with 20 seconds of automation, 24/7.
Head of Risk Intelligence & Automations
A one-line config change silently broke our most critical pipeline. The incident, and why I rebuilt the dbt runtime as a hermetic, self-hosted setup with the failure modes wired loud.
Writing
Brothers Karamazov
Ivan finds it easy to love mankind in the abstract but struggles the moment that idea takes on flesh and bone. Alyosha shows what it is to love, not within the bounds of logic, but as an act.
Brothers Karamazov
Ivan has said everything is permitted, and yet he cannot live it. He has a conscience he cannot account for. That is the abyss the devil represents.
Brothers Karamazov
Kolya recites his ideas, he does not explain them. Dostoevsky uses a thirteen-year-old to mock a generation of intellectuals tearing down fences they cannot see.
I’m always glad to talk about fintech, risk systems, and turning messy problems into reliable software.