Thinker.Builder.Human
Building at the intersection of tech and strategy
Senior Technical Product Manager and Investor with 15+ years of experience driving innovation, creating impactful solutions, and empowering growth through technology and strategy.
About Me
Breakthroughs emerge at the intersection of diverse experiences, disciplines, and perspectives.- The Medici Effect
Hi
I am
Adebowale
As a first-generation Nigerian American and globalist, I’m driven by solving challenging problems that elevate global communities. With over 15 years of experience in Procurement, Sourcing, and Product Management, I’m currently a Senior Product Manager on the Infrastructure team at Cloudflare, where I build internal tooling that helps engineering teams operate faster and at global scale.
Beyond my professional work, I’m passionate about fostering connections, empowering future leaders through mentorship, and exploring the future of Africa. My diverse experiences as a Board Member, Fractional Product work, and Angel Investor have deepened my commitment to creating pathways for innovation and growth. These days, I’m remaining curious, and learning out loud by writing, exploring partnerships, and building.
Happy you’re here.
My Skills
A multidisciplinary background in psychology, supply chain, and technology gives me a rare lens for understanding people, systems, and scale
Systems Thinking
Product Strategy
Builder Mindset
Selected Work & Projects
Built an internal purchasing platform for employees using ML models to predict spend categorization, reducing purchase order defect rates. Led the visioning, and 3-year roadmap delivering features focused on spend governance, PO validation, and audit-ready compliance. Reduced defects by 27% and onboarded 10K+ users globally within six months.
A focused selection of enterprise platforms and AI-native products I’ve led, shaped, and shipped.
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Enterprise Catalog Search
Unified discovery across multiple internal catalogs with ML-powered search. Improved relevance by 28% and successful search completion by 22%.
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Homebase KINnect
A wall-mounted family command center for meals, schedules, photos, chores, and allowance—with Google Sheets as the database and admin panel.
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Vibe Travel
A family travel planner that adapts recommendations to children’s ages, sensory needs, and travel pace—then builds realistic day-by-day itineraries.
View project →A web dashboard and companion mobile app built around a specific vision: a training system designed exactly for HYROX Doubles — phased periodization, partner coordination, equipment progressions, and real-time readiness scoring via Oura Ring and Apple Health. Built it because I had a clear picture of what I wanted and decided to ship it myself.
The transatlantic slave trade was one of the most far-reaching cultural dispersals in human history — yet tracing how African customs traveled, transformed, and took root across the globe remains largely undocumented. Diaspora Alive is built to change that, giving writers, academics, and travel curators a platform to map and amplify that living cultural thread.
Experience
Principal Product Manager, Infrastructure Lifecycle
Cloudflare
Senior Product Manager, Technical
Amazon
Sr. Procurement & Supplier Development Manager
AWS
Angel Investor & Product Advisor
Early-stage startups
Podcast Host
theAfricast: Diaspora Dialogues
Education & Certifications
AWS Certified AI Practitioner July25
DreamVC Investor Accelerator Fellow Nov24
Product HQ - Technical Product Manager Certification Mar25
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Sept22
Certified Professional in Supply Chain Management Apr16
Project Management Professional (PMP) Nov14
Howard University, MBA Supply Chain Management 13'
Tools
Writing
On Substack
Ideas on product, AI & the work of building.
Long-form thinking on how products get built, how AI changes the craft, and the judgment that still matters.
Latest · Product thinking
The PRD Was Never the Point
Prototype versus PRD is the wrong debate. The value was always in the discovery and judgment behind the artifact.
Read on Substack ↗
Product leadership
There’s Only One Kind of Product Manager That Matters
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Product strategy
From Outputs to Outcomes
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Social Chatter
Short takes from Threads & LinkedIn.
What's Next
15+ years of building at the intersection of technology and strategy.
Let's connect.