Lawal Alao, Fractional CTO & Product Leader
Direction technique externalisée · AI-native · Bordeaux
I help software teams ship AI products, and hand them back running without me.
Currently
CTO, Fasfox (French B2B software editor)
Portfolio: Suite Dispatch (construction SaaS, 1,000+ enterprises), CNGE (AI health agent for doctors), Eiffage GNR (non-road diesel fuel management), Altusafe (safe-AI for operating rooms) · 17-dev engineering team · AI First program rollout
Advisor, Zepargn
B2C fintech in West Africa · Post-founder, still shipping
Digital Transformation Officer, EPITECH Paris
Team of 13 · €700K budget
Recent Builds
Zinvest
Visit ↗Investment platform simplifying access to financial markets. Multi-regulator setup, real-time market feeds.
Fintech · Live
Enutri
Visit ↗AI-powered nutrition app for francophone West African families. 0–24 months meal plans, recipes, education.
iOS & Android · Live
Justixia
Visit ↗AI legal assistant with deterministic RAG, verified citations, francophone-first. Africa and Europe.
LegalTech · Live
EqualHome
Visit ↗Couples app that makes domestic labor visible and fair. Two-sided product, invariant per couple.
iOS & Android · Live
Mimics
Visit ↗AI workflow replacement for video creators. Design, build, ship in 17 days.
Shipped in 17 days
PM Agent
Visit ↗AI product coach powered by Claude API, deterministic routing and 14 Reforge frameworks.
Shipped
2026–
Fasfox
CTO
French B2B software editor · Portfolio: Suite Dispatch (BTP SaaS, 1,000+ enterprises), CNGE (AI health agent for doctors), Eiffage GNR (fuel management), Altusafe (safe-AI for operating rooms) · 17-dev team · AI First program
2023–
Zepargn
Founder, now Advisor
0 → 8,500 users · 170M+ FCFA managed
2023–
EPITECH Paris
Digital Transformation Officer
Team of 13 · €700K budget
2024–2026
Kkiapay
Head of Product
50M+ transactions/month · 4 countries
2021–2023
ChapChap
Co-founder
B2B SaaS logistics with invoice financing · 0 → 3,000 clients
2019–2020
Gozem
Tech Lead
Mobility super app · 100K+ users
Books
Six parts, 28 chapters on how AI is transforming the discipline of software engineering, from AI-assisted coding to agentic workflows, AI-native architectures and governance. New, 2026.
Un guide pratique pour passer de zéro à développeur employable.
Les fondamentaux pour concevoir des systèmes logiciels solides et maintenables.
Certifications
Writing
Software Engineering Is Changing: From Writing Code to Orchestrating Intelligence
Why AI-assisted coding is only the opening move, how the discipline shifts toward architecture, evaluation and governance, and what the engineer becomes when agents generate, test and deploy code. Notes behind the book I just published.
In Safety-Critical AI, the Dangerous Default Is "Done"
A design rule I would carry into any team shipping AI into safety-critical workflows: the default state of a safety claim must be unchecked, and only an explicit human act is allowed to promote it. Confidence is not evidence. With two concrete code primitives (schema + write-path guard) and a generalisation to fintech, legal, HR and industrial contexts.
Reading "The End of Software Engineering" Against My 2026 Shipping Log
A June 2026 paper argues that software engineering as a discipline is ending, replaced by agentic systems that generate code at runtime. After shipping six AI products this year, here is what the paper gets right, what it underweights, and why the timeline it proposes assumes an evaluation infrastructure that almost no team has yet.
Work together
Consulting engagement
Fractional CTO, architecture & org audit, AI First program. For scale-ups, editors, and teams shipping AI into production.
See offerings →Free 30-min chat (builders)
A few free slots a week for solo builders and early founders working on activation, AI features, or emerging market products.
Book a slot →Contact