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Currently building TinaStock · Based in Guangzhou, China

Founder

I build tech that African markets actually need.

22-year-old full-stack engineer and founder shipping fintech, e-commerce, and edtech products for French-speaking Africa — from Conakry to Guangzhou.

ConakryGuangzhou
Amadou Koulibaly

About

From Conakry to Guangzhou, one thread.

I studied software engineering in Guinea, shipped my first production code before graduating, then founded a company instead of waiting for a job offer to define my next step.

Everything I've built points the same direction: real software for markets the industry usually treats as an afterthought. Credit scoring for microfinances that had none. Payment rails that finally talk to each other. A school platform for institutions that were still running on paper.

I'm now based in Guangzhou, building AvenSchool, a school-management SaaS for institutions serving French-speaking African families, while preparing an application to Schwarzman Scholars at Tsinghua — the same instinct that built TinaStock, aimed one level higher.

2022–2025

Software Development, Université Gamal Abdel Nasser

Bachelor's degree in Conakry, plus an IBM Agile & Scrum Professional certification in 2024.

Early 2025

First engineering roles

Shipped fintech and business platforms at GeTax SARL and Jango Group SA, then built a US-to-Africa money transfer app with GoTransfer.

Mid–late 2025

Lead Technical, Jango Group SA

Took ownership of CredInfo, GoPay, GoGames, and ATM fleet monitoring — credit scoring, payment interoperability, and banking infrastructure.

Nov 2025

Founded TinaStock SARL

Launched an e-commerce platform for African SMEs with real paying merchants, now expanding into Congo-Brazzaville.

Today

Guangzhou, China

Building AvenSchool, and preparing applications to Schwarzman Scholars, Revolut, and Neurocom.

Selected work

Eight products, eight problems worth solving.

Each one shipped to real users on the ground, not a portfolio exercise.

Founder · E-commerceNov 2025 — today

TinaStock

Problem
Independent African merchants had no affordable way to sell online and get paid the way their customers actually pay.
Role
Founder & lead developer — product, engineering, and go-to-market.
Result
Live with paying merchants and recurring revenue; expanding into Congo-Brazzaville and raising a crowdequity round via Guinuty.
React NativeDjangoNode.jsOrange MoneyMTN MoMoSoutra MoneyKuLu

TinaStock lets small merchants across Guinea open a digital storefront and accept Orange Money, MTN MoMo, Soutra Money, and KuLu directly — no bank account or foreign payment processor required. I own the product end-to-end: architecture, mobile and backend development, and the partnership with RolSend Congo SARL driving expansion into Congo-Brazzaville, alongside an active crowdequity raise through Guinuty.

Fintech · Credit scoringAug 2025 — Aug 2026 · Jango Group SA

CredInfo

Problem
Banks and microfinance institutions in Guinea had no shared, real-time view of a borrower's history across institutions.
Role
Software engineer → Lead Technical, Jango Group SA.
Result
Built the multi-institution credit-tracking platform and its predictive scoring module, now used by partner banks and microfinances.
DjangoXGBoostscikit-learnOptunaMLflow

CredInfo centralizes credit history across banks and microfinance institutions that previously operated as silos, then layers a predictive scoring model on top — trained and tuned with XGBoost, scikit-learn, and Optuna, with MLflow tracking experiments. The result is a shared source of truth institutions can actually lend against.

Fintech · InteroperabilityMar 2025 — Aug 2026 · Jango Group SA

GoPay

Problem
Mobile money users in Guinea were locked into a single network — Orange Money couldn't talk to MoMo or Kulu.
Role
Software engineer → Lead Technical, Jango Group SA.
Result
Shipped the interoperability layer connecting Orange Money, Kulu, and MoMo into a single payment rail.
DjangoNode.jsMobile money APIs

GoPay sits between Guinea's mobile money operators and lets a transaction started on one network settle on another. The hard part wasn't the code — it was reconciling three incompatible APIs, settlement models, and failure modes into one reliable rail merchants can trust.

Fintech · Money transferApr 2025 — Jun 2025

GoTransfer

Problem
The US-based African diaspora had limited, reliable ways to send money directly to family and friends across Africa.
Role
Software engineer building the transfer app.
Result
Shipped a working US-to-Africa money transfer application, handling the flow from initiation to payout.
FlutterDjango

GoTransfer lets users in the US send money directly to recipients across Africa. I worked on the app end-to-end over a focused three-month build, from the transfer flow to the payout experience.

Fintech · LotteryDec 2025 — Aug 2026 · Jango Group SA

GoGames

Problem
Guinea had no digital lottery platform letting players participate and collect winnings without going through a physical vendor.
Role
Software engineer, Jango Group SA.
Result
Shipped a working digital lottery platform enabling players to participate and track winnings online.
FlutterDjango

GoGames digitizes the lottery experience in Guinea — players participate and follow results without needing a physical point of sale. I built the core platform with Flutter and Django as part of the Jango Group SA engineering team.

Infrastructure · BankingJun 2025 — Aug 2026 · Jango Group SA

ATM Fleet Monitoring

Problem
Bank ATM fleets running NCR/APTRA had no centralized way to detect outages before customers did.
Role
Software engineer, Jango Group SA.
Result
Deployed fleet-wide monitoring giving operations teams real-time visibility into ATM health.
Elastic Agent FleetNCR/APTRA

I integrated Elastic Agent Fleet across a bank's NCR/APTRA ATM network to surface outages, hardware faults, and connectivity drops before they became customer complaints — turning a reactive support process into a monitored one.

Edtech · School SaaSJul 2025 — today

AvenSchool

Problem
Schools serving French-speaking African families had no software to manage students, grades, or communication with parents — everything ran on paper.
Role
Founding engineer building the AvenSchool product.
Result
Launched AvenSchool, a live school-management SaaS used by schools and parents.
SaaSschool.avenstudy.com

AvenSchool is a school-management SaaS for institutions and the parents around them, live at school.avenstudy.com. I built the product end-to-end — from student and grade management to parent communication.

AI agent · WhatsAppEarly 2026

PizzaBot

Problem
A Conakry restaurant was losing orders to slow WhatsApp replies during rush hours.
Role
Designer & builder of the AI agent — prompts, tool architecture, and integration.
Result
Automated order-taking and customer support conversations end-to-end on WhatsApp.
WhatsApp APILLM agent designTool-calling

PizzaBot handles incoming WhatsApp orders and support questions with a purpose-built system prompt and tool architecture — taking orders, answering menu questions, and escalating to a human only when it should, without the restaurant losing a single order to response lag again.

Capabilities

Full-stack, with an edge in AI and mobile.

What I reach for, grouped by the problem it solves.

Mobile

  • React Native (Expo)
  • Android builds
  • Gradle & Kotlin troubleshooting

Backend

  • Django
  • Node.js
  • REST API design

AI & agents

  • LLM agent architecture
  • System prompts & tool-calling
  • WhatsApp bots

Data & ML

  • XGBoost
  • scikit-learn
  • Optuna
  • MLflow
  • Credit scoring models

Infrastructure

  • Elastic Agent Fleet
  • ATM/NCR APTRA monitoring

Product & delivery

  • Agile & Scrum (IBM certified)
  • Investor decks & docs
  • docx/pptx/PDF generation

Leadership

Leading teams before it was a job title.

On the field and in the company — the same habit of taking responsibility.

01

Founder & CEO, TinaStock SARL

Nov 2025 — today

Built and lead the company from zero — product, team, fundraising, and the Congo-Brazzaville expansion.

02

Football team captain

High school 2017–2018 · University 2024–2025

Captained teams at two different stages of life — reading a game and a locker room are closer to product leadership than most people expect.

03

Schwarzman Scholars candidate

Class of 2027–2028 · Tsinghua University, Beijing

Applying to this fully-funded master's program, built around a dedicated Leadership Experience track.

Contact

Let's build something.

Open to conversations about the Revolut Graduate Programme, the React Developer role at Neurocom, or building something new together.

Based in Guangzhou, China — working across time zones.