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Tech - Executive | Entrepreneur

Former CTO @ CalizaFormer CTO @ AloMedic

I align product, engineering, and operations to ship what matters—safely, at scale.

Proven startup executive: zero-to-one builds, turnarounds, and investor readiness.

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About

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I am a Senegal-based technology leader with global experience across fintech, telecom, and government. Passionate about bridging strategy and execution, and mentoring teams to deliver scalable solutions.

Languages: English, French, Wolof (fluent);beginner Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, Turkish.

Expertise

💼 Leadership & Business

  • Executive Startup Leadership & Strategic Transformation
  • Crisis Management & Business Continuity
  • Financial Acumen & High-Stakes Negotiation

🌍 Domains

  • Mobile money
  • DeFi & Crypto
  • Healthcare
  • Govtech
  • SaaS management

⚙️ Technical Expertise

  • Cloud & Architecture
  • Security & PCI-DSS
  • SaaS management
  • Kubernetes

🎓 Certifications

  • Harvard CORe (Financial Accounting, Economics, Business Analytics)
  • Oracle Certified Expert : Enterprise JB Developer
  • Oracle Certified Professional : Java Developer
  • Blockchain Architect (ongoing)

Contact

Interested in working together or discussing opportunities?

ahmaddiaw@gmail.com

About

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I am a Senegal-based technology leader with global experience across fintech, telecom, and government. Passionate about bridging strategy and execution, and mentoring teams to deliver scalable solutions.

Languages: English, French, Wolof (fluent);beginner Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, Turkish.

Start-up Accomplishments

BizaoOrange SonatelCaliza

Execution-focused CTO & solution architect with fintech, telecom, and gov-scale experience. Proven turnarounds, investor readiness, operational rigor, and cost/reliability transformation.

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Fundraising & Narrative

Aligned tech roadmap to investor milestones; de-risked due diligence with clean SDLC and security posture.

$5M seed supportedTech audits: 100% pass
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Turnarounds & Restructuring

Internalized engineering, stabilized delivery across regions, reduced dependency costs, and protected runway.

+40% reliability-30% cost (6 wks)
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Governance & Risk

PCI-DSS aware architectures, UAA reviews, FEaaS standardization; predictability for scale and compliance.

>99.9% uptimeSecurity controls in place
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Scale & Market Reach

Platforms shipped across Africa & LatAm; multi-tenant SaaS patterns, API ecosystems, and GTM with telcos.

Multi-country opsAPI ecosystem growth
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Operational Rigor

Obsessive focus on SDLC, SRE practices, runbooks, and guardrails—lower MTTR, fewer incidents, safer deploys.

MTTR ↓50%Change failure ↓30%On-call & SLOs

Experience

BizaoCTO & Interim Regional Director

2025 – Present

  • Internalized tech factory and stabilized delivery across 3 countries
  • Averted insolvency with strategic negotiations
  • Improved reliability and aligned IT with business goals

Orange SonatelEnterprise Architect

2022 – 2024

  • Defined Front-End-as-a-Service (FEaaS) framework
  • Contributed to IT master plan 2025–2027
  • Architected superapp and money-related offers

CalizaCTO

Past role

  • Owned product & engineering strategy end-to-end
  • Drove due diligence; supported $5M seed
  • Built/mentored team; instituted SDLC guardrails

AloMedicCTO

Past role

  • Led tech vision in regulated health environment
  • Improved platform reliability by ~40%
  • Established lean SDLC & ops practices

Experience

BizaoCTO & Interim Regional Director

2025 – Present

  • Internalized tech factory and stabilized delivery across 3 countries
  • Averted insolvency with strategic negotiations
  • Improved reliability and aligned IT with business goals

Orange SonatelEnterprise Architect

2022 – 2024

  • Defined Front-End-as-a-Service (FEaaS) framework
  • Contributed to IT master plan 2025–2027
  • Architected superapp and money-related offers

CalizaCTO

Past role

  • Owned product & engineering strategy end-to-end
  • Drove due diligence; supported $5M seed
  • Built/mentored team; instituted SDLC guardrails

AloMedicCTO

Past role

  • Led tech vision in regulated health environment
  • Improved platform reliability by ~40%
  • Established lean SDLC & ops practices

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