Chukwuemeka Jerome Nzegbuna
Jerome Nzegbuna is a product and technology leader with deep experience building and scaling digital products across Africa, Europe, and emerging markets worldwide.
He has spent the better part of a decade working at the intersection of product strategy and market volatility — shipping products in environments where the internet drops mid-transaction, currencies devalue overnight, and regulatory frameworks shift without warning. His work spans fintech, e-commerce, and enterprise platforms, with hands-on experience in Lagos, London, Kenya, Uganda and the corridors between established tech hubs and frontier economies.
Jerome's approach to product management is rooted in a simple observation: the playbooks written for Silicon Valley assume conditions that don't exist for most of the world's builders. His frameworks — including the VAS Risk Classification, the Sachet Economy model, and the Resilience Stack — are drawn from real products, real failures, and real markets where constraint is the starting point, not the exception.
He is also the author of Product-Led Engineering: From Output to Outcome, a practitioner's guide to building engineering teams that own product results.
Jerome writes for product managers, founders, and engineers who build for the real world — where resilience matters more than aesthetics, and reliability is the ultimate delight.