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Olusola Akinsulere is a backend engineer and founder who has spent nine years building production AI systems in fintech and retail across West Africa and Europe.

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Olusola Akinsulere is a backend engineer and founder based in Helsinki. Over nine years he has shipped production AI systems across fintech and retail: his work cut credit default rates by 44 percentage points, built platforms now serving 1,500+ merchants, and prevented €120K per quarter in inventory losses. He is the founder of RetailLoop, a retail intelligence platform for African merchants. He has spoken at EuroPython 2026 in Krakow, PyData Helsinki, and appeared on the Edge of Intelligence podcast and Techpression TV.

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Olusola Akinsulere is a backend engineer and founder based in Helsinki, Finland. He has spent nine years building production AI systems in fintech and retail, primarily across West Africa and Europe. That work includes automated loan decision engines, real-time retail intelligence platforms, demand forecasting, and data pipeline tooling. He is the founder of RetailLoop, a retail intelligence platform connecting fragmented POS, ecommerce, and inventory systems for African merchants. He is also the creator of zero-to-pipeline, a published Python library that eliminates API connector boilerplate using LLM-powered discovery. He spoke at EuroPython 2026 (Europe's largest Python conference, 25th anniversary edition in Krakow) and PyData Helsinki on modern data pipeline tooling. He writes about the IC to EM to Founder path in fintech and emerging markets at olusola.xyz.