Anthony Alebiosu
The person.
About
The medium changed. The question stayed the same.
My career has moved across physical processes, organisational systems, digital products and technology. The connecting thread is understanding how parts, information and constraints produce behaviour.
Intellectual trajectory
Different domains. A recurring question.
- Physical systemsChemical Process Engineering
Flows, reactions, constraints, process design and optimisation. My degree is in Chemical Process Engineering from the University of Lagos. My thesis examined green process redesign of used lead-acid battery recycling for refined lead.
- Organisational systemsBusiness analysis
Making organisational reality legible: processes, stakeholders, requirements, rules, information, decisions and operational constraints.
- Digital systemsProduct and technology
Designing interventions inside human, technological and economic systems: customer journeys, product requirements, data flows, metrics and delivery.
- Intelligent systemsDecisioning and AI
Understanding systems that perceive, represent, reason, decide, act and adapt. AI is one expression of the broader problem of intelligence.
- Enterprise systemsArchitecture and transformation
Connecting strategy, business capabilities, processes, information, applications, technology, people and outcomes.
How I think
Thinking is constructing and testing models.
I try to make the system legible before changing it, and to learn from the consequences of the change.
My reasoning loop
ObservationQuestionHypothesisModelEvidenceInterventionFeedbackRevised model
My practical questions
- What outcome are we trying to change?
- What is the system boundary?
- Which entities, relationships, constraints and information flows matter?
- What feedback or unintended behaviour might emerge?
- Where is the leverage point?
- How will we know whether the intervention worked?
Career history
Where I have worked.
- Dec 2023 — presentRenmoney Microfinance Bank
Technical Product Manager (promoted from Business Analyst; later Mobile App Product Manager on the same CV line).
Product strategy, business analysis and delivery across lending, payments and banking: a universal loan preapproval platform, credit decisioning, attribution and funnel analytics, experimentation, and enterprise architecture for digital lending. Directed cross-functional work involving 50+ people.
- Dec 2023 — presentThe NOTI Company
Co-founder, product strategy and experience design.
A product and brand studio: discovery, research, UX strategy and service design for early-stage ventures.
- Aug 2021 — Mar 2023Zap Africa / Solarsoft Technologies
Business Analyst.
Business analysis for blockchain wallet and payments products; BRDs, FRDs, PRDs and SRS documents; Agile delivery with engineering teams.
- May 2022 — Oct 2022Data2Bots (concurrent)
Business Analyst, Data Products.
Data-product requirements for international clients, with data engineers on API-first architectures.
Education and certification
- B.Sc. Chemical Process Engineering, University of Lagos. Thesis: green process redesign of used lead-acid battery recycling for refined lead.
- BCS Practitioner Certificate in Business Analysis Practice.
- Business Analysis Training, Piston & Fusion.
What I take responsibility for
| Problems | Complicated systems where product, data, policy, technology and operations pull against each other. |
|---|---|
| Decisions I help make | What to build, in what order, where the system boundary sits, what to measure, and when to change course. |
| Outcomes I aim to move | Growth, conversion, decision quality and delivery speed, with the risk guardrails stated up front. |
Where I’m heading: technical programme leadership for intelligent systems, and enterprise architecture and transformation, including in energy.
How the names fit
One person, one approach, one body of ideas.
The System Architect
How I approach business, product and technology problems: understand the system first, then change it.
Universe of Intelligence
The connected set of ideas, models and experiments behind the work: systems, information, complexity, intelligence, organisations, products, architecture, philosophy.
Crystal
The design idea: the same structure seen from several angles, without flattening its depth.
Make the surface simple. Make the depth rich.
Complexity belongs in the architecture, not in the interface.