Lawal Alao, Senior Product Manager
AI-native builder · Bordeaux, France
I build products. Sometimes with code, always with care.
Currently
Builder & Advisor
Shipping AI products · Advising fintech startups in West Africa
Digital Transformation Officer, EPITECH Paris
Team of 13 · €700K budget
Recent Builds
Enutri
Visit ↗AI-powered nutrition app for francophone West African families. 0–24 months meal plans, recipes, education.
100 users · iOS & Android
EqualHome
Visit ↗Couples app that makes domestic labor visible and fair. Web live, mobile apps in store review.
20 users · $45 MRR
PM Agent
Visit ↗AI product coach powered by Claude API, RAG architecture and 14 Reforge frameworks.
Shipped
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
Un guide pratique pour passer de zéro à développeur employable.
Les fondamentaux pour concevoir des systèmes logiciels solides et maintenables.
Certifications
Writing
Test Coverage Was Enough. Ownership Coverage Is What Matters Now.
Every AI-shipping team accumulates dark matter faster than they realize: code that runs in production but no single human in the company holds a mental model of. Here is the metric I propose to track it, the discipline I force on myself when I ship with Claude Code, and what happens at 3am in a service nobody remembers writing.
Stop Delegating Your Thinking to AI
How I ship faster with AI without accumulating technical or product debt. The order of operations on a new project, the trap of AI-explained stack traces, what AI is safe to delegate, and what the human stays in the loop for. Notes from shipping six AI products in 2025 with Claude Code as a co-pilot.
Structuring Product Without Slowing It Down: Two Years as Kkiapay's First PM
Joining a founder-led fintech at 50M+ transactions per month as its first Product Manager. The discovery rituals I added, the delivery cadence I left alone, the CODIR roadmap I built across four UEMOA countries, and the six AI products I shipped in production in 2025 while doing it.
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