What I build
About
Built across worlds. Grounded in purpose.
I’m Tochii Achebe, formally Tochukwu Achebe: a British-Nigerian founder and technical product leader. I started with an unpaid internship in Lagos. Today I run Amakora from London, building the systems that let AI agents and models do real work safely.
Two places, one story
Nigerian roots. A London base. Work that travels.
Community, ambition, and faith. VerifyMe and Interswitch, and Nigeria’s developer ecosystem.
Amakora, teaching, and mentoring with The King’s Trust, working with partners and clients across New York and San Francisco.
Three lenses
The work makes more sense when you know the operating principles.
Chapter 02 · The journey
A career built by following the through-line.
Products changed. Markets changed. The work kept returning to the same question: how do we make complex systems useful to people?
Interswitch2020—2022
Building for an ecosystem
Led API marketplace and developer experience work, turning internal capabilities into products that third-party builders could discover and use.
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Life around the work
The story is professional. The reasons are personal.
Milestones, places, and people that keep the work rooted in purpose and possibility.
Buckingham Palace
Invited to The King’s Trust 50th anniversary garden party in 2026.
A new chapter, shared with the love of my life.
The work is ambitious. The life around it keeps it meaningful.
The pauses keep it human.
Time to think, read, and reset between the work.
The quiet centre
Faith is not a footnote to the work.
My Christian faith shapes how I make decisions, treat people, carry responsibility, and define success. It asks me to build with integrity, lead with humility, and remember that technology is always in service of human lives.
“My faith is my anchor, my guide, and my strength.”
- Integrity
- Build what can stand up to scrutiny.
- Stewardship
- Treat access and talent as responsibility.
- People
- Relationships over transactions.
- Discernment
- Prayer, wisdom, and the long view.
Selected proof
Outcomes over ornament.
Specific work across platforms, fintech, AI products, education, and leadership.
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Built one of Africa's first self-service API marketplaces at Interswitch.
02
Scaled API-driven transaction volume from $1M to $35M through developer ecosystem and platform strategy.
03
Delivered platform integrations and partnerships that drove 5x transaction value growth within 8 months.
04
Built and deployed SmartHR, an AI-powered recruitment platform that reduced candidate screening time by 45% and increased placement accuracy by 63%.
05
Built and deployed a natural-language MIS reporting system for Sterling Bank.
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Generated six-figure revenue through consulting, corporate training, and digital education products via Amakora.
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Teaching in the room
Ideas become useful when people can act on them.
Conference talks, practical workshops, technical product teaching, and mentoring across APIs, AI, systems, and leadership.
The invitation