Co-Founder & CTO · Applied AI Engineer · Product Engineer

I build the infrastructure SaaS companies run on.

Olusola Akinsulere

Multi-tenant control planes, AI pipelines, and event-driven backends. Nine years in fintech and emerging markets where the constraints are real and the playbook hasn't been written yet. EuroPython 2026 speaker.

Open to the right opportunities. Helsinki · Remote · EMEA.

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Results, not résumé

44 pts

NPL rate cut

Automated loan decisioning that cut default rates by 44 points on live fintech volume.

1,500+

Merchants served

Multi-tenant real-time platform at 99.9% uptime, 4K+ events/day.

0 → 20

Eng org built

Career ladders, hiring rubrics, and technical strategy from zero to twenty.

60+

Engineers mentored

Placed at Meta, Netflix, LinkedIn, Grafana Labs, and others.

EP 2026

EuroPython speaker

Krakow. zero-to-pipeline on PyPI. Europe's largest Python conference.

9+
Years Shipping
1,500+
Merchants on Platform
60+
Engineers Mentored

Infrastructure that fails. Markets that don't follow the textbooks. Problems that can't be solved with a Silicon Valley playbook. That's where the constraints are real and the engineering challenges worth solving live.

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Projects

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Founder & Engineering Lead

RetailLoop

2022–Present

Retail intelligence platform connecting POS, ecommerce, and inventory into one decision layer

1,500+
Merchants on the platform
99.9%
Uptime on transaction paths
€120K/qtr
Overstock losses prevented

Talks

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Zero to Pipeline: When Data Connectors Just Work — EuroPython 2026Zero to Pipeline: When Data Connectors Just Work — EuroPython 2026Zero to Pipeline: When Data Connectors Just Work — EuroPython 2026
#Data Engineering#Pipelines#Python

Zero to Pipeline: When Data Connectors Just Work

EuroPython 2026 · Krakow, Poland

Data engineers spend hours writing the same connector boilerplate (auth flows, pagination loops, retry logic) before a single byte of real data moves. I built zero-to-pipeline to fix that: one CLI command, and the LLM discovers endpoints, infers the auth type, and writes the config. At EuroPython 2026 (Europe's largest Python conference, 25th anniversary edition in Krakow) I ran a live fraud-detection demo: 15,000 synthetic transactions, Feast feature views, MLflow, Prometheus, and a Linear issue, orchestrated as a DAG and done in 4.4 seconds. The talk collapses days of connector boilerplate into a single shell command.

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July 15, 2026
#Data Engineering#Pipelines#Python

Zero to Pipeline: When Data Connectors Just Work

PyData Helsinki Meetup at RELEX · Helsinki, Finland

Lightning talk at PyData Helsinki showing how a single CLI command can replace the hours of connector boilerplate data engineers write for every new API. The talk introduced zero-to-pipeline — a Python framework that uses an LLM to discover endpoints, infer auth type, and handle pagination, so you can connect to any REST or GraphQL API without writing a connector class. Part of a data engineering evening hosted at RELEX Solutions.

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February 26, 2026
#Ai#Retail#Africa

Building AI for Africa's Fragmented Retail Future

Edge of Intelligence (Podcast) · Remote

A 45-minute conversation on building AI-powered tools for Africa's fragmented retail landscape — inventory forecasting, customer engagement, and decision automation for markets ranging from mom-and-pop shops to enterprise operations. Covers the origin story of RetailLoop, lessons from navigating Nigeria's fragmented retail infrastructure, and the architecture decisions behind Leahai, the AI intelligence layer built on top of the platform.

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July 22, 2025

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