Technical Program Manager

BIG PAYMENT
PROGRAMS.
SHIPPED.

Nine years delivering cross-functional programs across fintech, telecoms and enterprise platforms — stablecoin treasury and payment rails at Flutterwave, a developer platform for 500+ engineers at BT, a nineteen-country release train at MTN.

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100+
Programs delivered
$40B+
Volume supported
19
Countries coordinated
500+
Engineers enabled
9+
Years in delivery

Flagship programs

01 — 03 · READ IN FULL
Treasury2024 — 2026 · V2 IN FLIGHT

Stablecoin wallets for merchant settlement

From a dashboard preference toggle to multi-chain auto-settlement across eight new fiat currencies — core engineering, merchant platform and compliance run as one delivery track through V1 and into V2.

Merchants fund balances in stablecoin and settle cross-border in minutes. The integration also unlocked a $5M credit facility.

$5M
Credit facility unlocked
8
New fiat currencies
V2
Now in flight
EnterpriseFLUTTERWAVE · 2025

Payment rails for a national IPO

Share purchase in under four minutes — no paper, no branch. Identity verification, registry lookup, purchase and collection across dashboard, consumer app and POS, against a public offer window that could not move.

5M
Shareholders targeted
<4 min
To buy shares
3
Channels, one launch
AIFLUTTERWAVE · 2025

Zia — internal AI assistant

Retrieval-augmented answers over internal knowledge, in Slack, for 1,000+ staff across every department — model work, knowledge curation, role-based access and deployment.

1,000+
Staff served
Slack
Where it lives

Nine years, six organisations

Payments is the deep end, but the pattern is older than that: take a program with too many moving parts and too little slack, give it an operating model, and report the truth about it every week.

SEPT 2022 — PRESENT
Flutterwave
California, US — remote

Technical Program Manager, Delivery Lead

Program manager for the enterprise engineering org — four pods, 25+ engineers, on the initiatives the company counts as revenue-critical. Own the delivery operating model across third-party rail integrations and product expansion: intake, prioritisation, dependency management and executive reporting.

  • Ran stablecoin treasury, multi-currency accounts, payout rails and sanctions screening as one portfolio
  • Delivered feature rollouts in regulated environments with audit-ready change governance
  • Deployed 20,000+ POS terminals — transaction volume up 30%, customer acquisition up 40%
  • Oversaw cloud migration and infrastructure standardisation across key product lines
JUL 2023 — JUN 2025
BT Group
London, UK — remote

Technical Program Manager Lead

Led the delivery operating model for an internal developer platform built by six squads and 32+ engineers — schedule, cross-squad dependencies, escalation paths and reporting into senior leadership.

  • Enabled 500+ engineers to go from idea to production in under twelve minutes
  • Held an 80% on-time delivery rate and met every quarterly release milestone
  • Chaired governance forums across DevOps, SRE and platform engineering
  • Embedded security tooling into CI/CD with external vendors, improving audit readiness
JUL 2023 — FEB 2026
Distributed
UK — freelance, remote

Consultant Project Manager

Client-side delivery consulting: stood up PMO governance for new engagements — SOPs, plans and frameworks for blended employee and contractor teams — and owned budget, resourcing and delivery-health reporting.

  • Delivered Worknest, an internal staff platform for timesheets, leave and task tracking
  • Managed delivery of an AI email and calendar assistant for legal practitioners
  • Ran contractor payroll oversight alongside cost-versus-revenue tracking
NOV 2021 — SEPT 2022
MTN
South Africa — remote

SAFe Scrum Master

Coordinated delivery across nineteen countries through Scrum of Scrums on a globally distributed release train — dependencies, risk, and the change governance that kept nineteen markets deployable.

  • Owned the change request process end to end: assessed, documented, approved, traceable
  • Ran multi-country regression and release governance ahead of every go-live
  • Facilitated PI Planning, System Demos and Inspect & Adapt across the train
  • Delivered APIs for a global engagement program spanning nineteen African markets
JAN 2020 — OCT 2021
Alat by Wema
Nigeria — hybrid

Agile Project Manager

Delivery lead on a digital banking application — cut sprint cycle times 30% while meeting every regulatory requirement, and embedded TDD and continuous integration for a 20% drop in bug frequency.

SEPT 2016 — NOV 2019
Terragon Group
Lagos, Nigeria

Associate Project Manager

Ran marketing technology campaigns to a 95% on-time completion rate and a 40% lift in client retention, with documentation discipline that outlived each engagement.

Program index

32 OF 100+ DOCUMENTED

A working record across all six organisations. Filter by domain, and open any entry for what it was and what it changed.

How I run a program

01

An operating model before a plan

Intake, prioritisation, decision rights and a reporting rhythm, agreed first. Plans change; the model keeps the program legible when they do.

02

The critical path, out loud

Dependencies mapped across squads and vendors, risks raised early with a mitigation attached, escalation treated as a working tool rather than a failure.

03

Audit-ready at pace

Change governance, release readiness, go/no-go and rollback documented as the work happens — so regulated launches need no archaeology afterwards.

04

Observability in the definition of done

Monitoring, fallbacks and failover belong to launch scope, not a follow-up ticket. Payment programs are judged on the bad day, not the good one.

05

One honest status

The same picture for the squad and the steering committee. Executives get position, risk and ask — not a colour that has drifted from the code.

06

Compounding process

Retrospectives that produce changes, documentation standards that survive handover, delivery frameworks the next program can inherit.

Domains & tooling

Domain

Payments & Treasury

Payout orchestration, virtual account funding, multi-currency disbursement, stablecoin operations, payment rail integrations, fee configuration.

Domain

Compliance & Risk

Sanctions screening, beneficiary validation, KYC collection, tax-authority integration, corridor-level restriction, regulated release governance.

Domain

Platform & Reliability

Internal developer platforms, CI/CD optimisation, cloud migration, queue and streaming operations, observability rollouts, holds and refund services.

Domain

Merchant & Consumer Experience

Checkout success, onboarding automation, mobile delivery, rate transparency, notification frameworks, POS and agency banking.

Domain

AI & Internal Tooling

Retrieval-augmented assistants, knowledge-base curation, vector search, role-based access control, workflow automation.

Practice

Frameworks & tooling

SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Lean Portfolio · Jira & Jira Align, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, MS Project · Tableau, Power BI, Smartsheet · Confluence, Miro, Slack · ITIL.

Education
Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria — Bachelor's degree
Product Dive, London — Product Management certification: API-led technical product, growth product management, product management blueprint.

Have a program that has to land?

Open to technical program management roles and consulting engagements — delivery operating models, PMO setup, and recovery of programs that have drifted.

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Temi Oritsejafor
Lagos, Nigeria · remote-first
PMP · SAFe 6 SSM · PSM I & II · PSPO 1
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