Product & Program Executive Scaling Fintech Infrastructure in Complex Markets
I build payment rails where market complexity and scale collide. As CPO at Simpaisa in Dubai, I helped scale infrastructure across 5 frontier markets, $1B+ GTV, 270M+ payments a year and named global PSPs as partners.
Certified: PMP·PMI-ACP·CSPO·CSM·COBIT 5·ITIL
Infrastructure used by enterprise platforms incl. TikTok·Uber·Samsung·MoneyGram·Shein
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Essays across payment infrastructure, settlement, risk, SWIFT, onboarding and complex-market execution.
Products I have built, and products I am building.
Regulated multi-rail payment infrastructure across pay-in, payout, wallets, DCB, IBFT, card acquiring, cross-border, FX, settlement, fraud and KYC/KYB.
OTT billing, direct carrier billing, wallet migration and subscription monetization. Built and scaled the payment monetization and billing infrastructure.
The posts I'd read first.
How SWIFT Payment Works: A Complete Overview
SWIFT is messaging, not movement. Understand the difference and most cross-border problems become legible.
PMO Maturity Model for Fintech: Five Stages and How to Know Yours
KYB Document Extraction: A Realistic LLM Use Case in Regulated Payments
Financial Controls Are Product Requirements, Not Compliance Afterthoughts
Sanctions Screening Without Killing Throughput
Why Local Payment Methods Are a Developer-Experience Problem
Before payments, I learned reliability in systems where failure had real consequences. That operating discipline now shapes how I build financial infrastructure: controlled, scalable, auditable, and resilient.
Infrastructure shipped at scale.
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Open to senior Product & Program roles in fintech and payment infrastructure, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Wise, Adyen, Thunes, DLocal, Checkout.com, Rapyd and regional fintechs. Replies within 24 hours, Sun–Thu (GST).