Samie Chuku

The story begins in retail banking. As a Retail Banking Specialist at Ecobank Nigeria, Samie spent five years managing client portfolios, originating loans, and advising customers across the full product range — building a working understanding of how financial institutions manage money, risk, and relationships from the inside. That foundation would prove more durable than it looked.

The move into technology came through enterprise sales. At CWG PLC, he sold Finacle — Infosys's core banking suite — to financial institutions across Nigeria, eventually reaching peak annual revenue of $28M as Sales Manager across fintech, banking, and telecoms sectors. Later, at Data Group IT, he shifted to enterprise cybersecurity solutions. Across nearly a decade in sales, he learned to speak the language of ROI and the language of technical architecture simultaneously — to an executive audience in one room and an engineering team in the next. An accounting degree, studied before any of this, gave that instinct its structure: the discipline that trains you to think in systems, in inputs and outputs and downstream consequences, stayed with him through every role that came after.

In 2019, the deliberate shift from selling technology to working inside it. Joining Experis Manpower Group as a Business Analyst and Go-Live Consultant, he led requirements-gathering workshops and deployments for healthcare organisations navigating complex system implementations. The skills transferred cleanly. The ability to understand what a business needed and translate it into something a development team could build from had been implicit in his sales work for years; in business analysis, it became the explicit job.

Four years at Healthcare Highways deepened that work substantially. Moving from Business Analyst to Technical Product Owner to Systems Integration Analyst, he owned the full delivery lifecycle of two enterprise SaaS platforms, facilitated requirements workshops with national stakeholder groups, and rebuilt a legacy data ingestion system end-to-end — eliminating six figures in annual operating costs. He earned his Certified Scrum Product Owner designation along the way, and was named Healthcare Highways' Employee of the Year in 2023.

Enrolled in 2024, he completed a Master of Science in Cyber-Physical Systems at Northeastern University in Canada — formalising engineering depth built through years of hands-on practice. He now works as Client Solutions Manager at Infodata Professional Services while building Rent4Weeks, Canada's peer-to-peer car rental marketplace, and MoveProtect, the vehicle telematics system that powers its fleet management layer. The range from banking floors to embedded firmware is a long one. The through-line — understanding what a system actually needs to do, and making sure it gets built that way — has not changed.