She started with a dream of paediatrics and a failed exam. She is now the Technology Operations Manager keeping Nigeria’s financial infrastructure alive, and one of the most consequential engineers working in African fintech today.
The girl who wanted to save lives
Temitayo Alade grew up in Nigeria with a clear idea of what her future looked like. Medicine. Specifically, paediatrics. The desire was not abstract; it was rooted in something concrete, the drive to diagnose, to intervene, to fix what was broken before it became irreparable.
She watched medical dramas and recognised in them something she already carried, a temperament built for problem-solving under pressure.
Life interrupted the plan.
