Product & Fintech Specialist
GODFREY
OMWENGA
Product Leadership, Payments & Embedded Finance
Product leader with deep experience across fintech, payments, and embedded finance, delivering scalable products in highly regulated African markets. Combines strong product strategy and market insight with hands-on technical fluency across APIs, USSD, mobile integrations, and payment rails.
Current Role
Currently a Product Specialist at Safaricom (M-Pesa), leading end-to-end strategy and delivery of credit and payment products.
Known for aligning engineering, risk, compliance, commercial, and operations teams to ship market-relevant solutions with clear regulatory and commercial outcomes.
Previous Experience
Previously served as Frontend Engineering Lead at Letshego, scaling digital platforms across 11 African markets and contributing to enterprise-wide digital transformation.
Led multidisciplinary teams, delivered high-performing web and mobile products, introduced OKRs to improve delivery discipline, spearheaded the company's first CRM system, and implemented real-time monitoring dashboards.
Earlier roles include Technical Consultant at Mojagate, Senior Software Engineer & Project Lead at Mtech (architecting Absa Bank's high-volume SMS Gateway), and GovTech and enterprise systems leadership at Webmasters and EBS Africa.
Expertise
Brings a rare blend of product leadership, payments domain expertise, and engineering depth, with a proven track record across banks, telcos, fintechs, and government institutions.
Adept at partner ecosystems, stakeholder management, and navigating regulatory frameworks to deliver products that scale, perform reliably, and create measurable customer and business impact.
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