Title: Brydge — cross-border payments

Title: Brydge — cross-border payments and trade finance for African businesses Role: Lead Product Engineer Link: https://brydge.africa Skills (3): Node.js · TypeScript · Full-Stack Development

Trade between African countries still runs on WhatsApp negotiations, paper invoices and payments that cross borders slowly and expensively. Brydge puts an entire trade in one place sourcing, invoicing, multi-currency settlement and the financing behind it across 42 countries.

I led product engineering. What I built and owned:

The multi-currency payments platform, the core of the product, letting businesses send and receive across borders with confidence.

Dealroom creating, financing and executing a deal in one place instead of across a dozen email threads.

Customer and vendor management, including issuing virtual accounts and reconciling incoming payments against them.

Sales and purchase-order invoicing, which replaced paper invoicing for merchants and coincided with roughly a 20% rise in our user base.

Trade finance, giving a business access to capital against a specific trade.

I also owned security review of the implementation. In payments that isn't a feature, it's the product a flaw there costs customers money, not patience. Alongside the build I standardised how features and bugs were triaged, and mentored the junior and mid-level engineers; turnover fell about 10% over the period.