The Credence Awards, a leading Nigerian impact-focused award, is proud to announce Adeshina Lasisi as the winner in the Innovation and Product Impact category. After a rigorous nomination and review process, the judging experts affirmed Mr. Lasisi’s selection as one of Nigeria’s leading professionals in backend engineering and product innovation, recognizing a career defined by technical excellence, strategic vision, and measurable market outcomes.
Across his career, Mr. Lasisi has designed, built, and scaled enterprise-grade financial and capital markets systems that handle high-value transactions and drive tangible business impact. At Africa Prudential, he led the design and delivery of platforms that process billions of naira across equity transactions, rights issues, and offer management systems that set new industry standards while delivering clear business results. His leadership of Greenpole (V2) mitigated regulatory risk valued at up to ?1 billion, drove significant revenue growth, and materially improved operational efficiency, demonstrating an uncommon ability to translate deep engineering work into organizational resilience and commercial value.
The judges highlighted Mr. Lasisi’s role in bringing Invearn to market, an accessible customer-facing platform that has surpassed 10,000 downloads and broadened direct capital market access for thousands of Nigerians. At Nomba, he led the creation of NombaQR, the technology that powered the company’s first cross-border expansion, scaling usage to more than two million active QR codes, processing billions in transactions, and onboarding hundreds of thousands of customers. His introduction of multi-account management (personal and business) and multi-currency Nomba Cards, available in both physical and virtual forms, significantly advanced cross-border commerce and strengthened financial inclusion, empowering users previously excluded from traditional banking services.
His contributions at Waya include engineering, building, and driving the end-to-end development of the checkout payment experience, which supports multiple payment methods: cards, digital wallets, phone numbers, direct bank debits, USSD banking, and payment links. This solution enabled customers to pay easily through their preferred channels while empowering merchants to accept payments effortlessly, manage recurring transactions, handle subscriber billing, and oversee settlements. At Airtel, he led the engineering of HBB v2, the upgraded Home Broadband service, and enhanced critical internal systems such as Airtel KYC and USSD network reporting tools, resulting in improved service reliability, greater operational visibility, and a better overall user experience. At MTN, he contributed to the development and scaling of the MTN MADAPI platform by building distributed services that strengthened transaction reliability, system interoperability, and resilience for millions of users.
Beyond technical delivery, the judges recognized Mr. Lasisi’s commitment to product stewardship and team development. He is credited with consistently mentoring engineers, enforcing engineering best practices, and engaging directly with customers to secure adoption and long-term product success. His work exemplifies a rare combination of deep backend engineering expertise, mastery of distributed systems and cloud-native architectures, and a user-centered approach that prioritizes security, scalability, and long-term value.
This award affirms Adeshina Lasisi’s professional credibility and authority as a senior backend engineer, product leader, and community-minded technologist. His contributions have disrupted legacy paradigms, delivered measurable business growth, and improved financial accessibility across sectors in Nigeria and beyond.
‘We celebrate Adeshina’s accomplishments and look forward to the continued influence of his work in advancing innovation, financial inclusion, and scalable product engineering,’ said David Ajayi, Chair of the Judging Panel.