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To tell you the whole story how building Wiza came about, it's important to tell you about the timeline it happened and how much effort and dedication was put forth into this venture.
By 2022, I was finishing up an assignment and just left a partnership (vPOS)I was involved with and I wanted to do something different within fintech. Ireceived multiple invitations to lead engineering teams in a couple of fintechsbut I passed on the opportunities simply because I was not too attracted to thedirection some where going or because I just could not understand their vision,but I did consult for some of them for a while.
During this whole time I started to work on something that I later shared with one of my old partners and based on the experience we had within the Angolan market it just made sense to try it.
So, myself and Kamal D'Nigel (KD) decided to take this on and create what is today known as Wiza, and so far it has been a good experience.
The image below shows what life was like for me in 2022, working almost everyday. I lived by the motto of “Work smarter” but this new venture required me to “Work harder”, whilst KD was out there trying to convince partners and merchants that this was the way forward. If you ever tried to do anything in Angola you should put some respect on the work that he was putting in..
By year 2023 the scenario did not change much for me, at least for the first semester, and you can imagine how this affected me personally and professionally. I have been literally coding almost everyday for a year and had to handle other business responsibilities that I had at NEXTBSS.
By the last semester of 2023 most of the payment providers were on board in Angola, including one in RDC (Republic Democratic of Congo) and we had on board a couple of customers using our platform to facilitate payments and manage their business operations. During this time I was able to bring on board two developers to help me on mobile development and frontend development.
Myself and KD were on full time support mode.
Guaranteeing the clients satisfaction became the number one task, I even joined WhatsApp (those who know me understand what that means) and finally got someone whom we had worked with before to join and help as product manager (by second quarter of 2024).
Today in 2024 the platform has matured in processing thousands of transactions per day but more importantly there are small, median and even larger business who relay 100% on Wiza for their business management, payment processing, e-commerce and others.
Now that we reached that moment where Wiza has seen enough battles to go general public, we are going to be releasing these solutions one by one for small business owners and large corporations with business models that make sense for all.
I'll be telling you all about the technology choices and the challenges I faced so far and what methodology I've been using to handle them in future posts, until then “ Wiza tukina ”.
