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AfrimashAkin Oyedotun is co-founder of Afrimash (since 2016) and has been a part-time executive board member since December 2025, focused on strategy and governance, after serving as its CTO from 2016 to 2025. Oyedotun was Senior Engineering Manager at Unifonic (2021–2025), leading engineering squads for its customer engagement platform, and earlier held engineering, architecture and product roles at The GIG Group, Cars45 and Venture Garden Group, and at Cellulant, where Oyedotun led development of the Tingg mobile payment platform (2011–2016).
Akin taught Java development as an instructor in 2009, then ran IT support for the Procter & Gamble account as an HP site administrator (October 2009 to September 2010). In October 2010 Akin joined Cellulant as a senior software developer, building banking notification applications.
As technology lead and software architect at Cellulant from March 2011 to September 2016, Akin led development of the Tingg mobile payment platform and designed an IVR system for the federal fertilizer subsidy program. The profile says Akin also built an SMS delivery system serving over 40 million messages a month, peaking at 75 million.
In January 2016 Akin co-founded Afrimash and served as its chief technology officer for ten years. The About section credits Akin as founding CTO behind Afrimash Virtual Advisor, an AI-enabled conversational commerce system, and USSD traceability protocols that USAID and Oxfam recognized for digitizing agricultural supply chains.
Akin was senior engineering manager at Unifonic in Dubai from January 2021 to February 2025, leading squads behind its customer engagement platform, including a low-code omnichannel orchestration platform. In December 2025 Akin moved to a part-time executive board role at Afrimash, with a head of technology hired to run engineering day to day.
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