Biography
Olamide Sobowale is a product-first engineer with a systems brain and a startup heart. As Co-Founder and CTO of Anchor, he’s leading the charge to make embedded finance infrastructure as accessible and reliable as cloud storage — giving African startups the rails to launch and scale banking products without touching a line of compliance code.
With a first-class degree in Computer Engineering and a global engineering résumé that includes Google, Kuda, Carbon, and a decade at Codepriest Labs, Olamide has spent his career turning complexity into clarity. His superpower? Designing and debugging large-scale systems that work — even when no one’s watching.
At Anchor, he’s architecting the infrastructure that powers APIs, compliance workflows, user authentication, and real-time settlements across Africa’s most ambitious fintechs. But beyond code, Olamide is known for his curiosity, quiet leadership, and deep dedication to mentorship and continuous improvement.
Whether he’s building CI/CD pipelines, scaling fintech backends, or mentoring the next generation of engineers, Olamide leads with rigor, humility, and a bias for elegant solutions. His belief is simple: Africa doesn’t just need fintech products — it needs financial infrastructure that actually works.