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Business Analysis
Understanding the business before writing the first line. Requirement framing, process mapping, trade-offs with stakeholders. I turn an activity into specifications a team can actually build.
Félix LaurentWorou
Solution Architect, AI and Data
I build artificial intelligence and data products. I start by understanding how an organisation actually works, I decide what deserves to be automated, then I build the system that does it.
Business Analysis/Data Analytics/Artificial Intelligence/Agentic Systems/Process Automation
6+
years in production
2
divisions within Growth-In
2
working languages
01Profile
Understand first. Build second.
- Title
- Solution Architect, AI and Data
- Engagements
- Remote and on site
- Languages
- French and English
My work rarely starts with code. It starts with a simple question: how does this organisation actually work, and where is it losing time, money or information? I frame it, I measure it, then I decide what deserves to be automated.
Then I build. Platforms used every day, artificial intelligence models integrated into what already exists, dashboards that change a decision rather than decorate a meeting.
More than six years on products genuinely in service, from agriculture to finance, from commerce to logistics, including a platform rebuilt to the standard its international funders required. The business will always remain the heart of any work. Understanding it, using it and building with it is my vocation.
02Expertise
Six ways I step in
An engagement rarely starts with technology and never ends at delivery. Here is what I take responsibility for.
02
Data Analytics
The study of data, from cleaning through to the decision. Modelling, indicators, dashboards. What matters is not the chart, it is the action it triggers.
03
Artificial Intelligence
Machine learning, computer vision, language models. From satellite plot detection to harvest forecasting, with the full chain: ingestion, training, evaluation, deployment.
04
Agentic Systems
Agents that carry out real tasks inside your tools, not demonstrations. Orchestration, guardrails, traceability and measurement of what was done.
05
Solution Architecture
Choosing the structure that will still hold in three years. Integrations, data model, security, scaling, and the migration path to get there without stopping everything.
06
Process Automation
Removing double entry, manual follow-ups and files circulating by email. The gain is not a story, it is measured in hours given back to the teams.
03The group
Growth-In
Born in July 2024. Two divisions, one same standard: deliver something that holds once we have left.
Innovation
GroInnov
Product design and delivery. Business platforms, artificial intelligence, data and integrations. This is the division that builds.
Communication
GrowthCom
Business Analysis, brand strategy, content and visibility. Understanding a market before speaking to it. This is the division that positions.
Be growth, you too.
From framing to going live.
04Work
Systems in service
A selection of projects delivered and in use. The figures quoted are the ones measured in the field.
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Satellite detection and harvest forecasting
Agricultural digitalisation programme · Biolife Tech
Recognising plots from space and estimating what they will produce, in a region where the sky is rarely clear.
- Over twelve months on one plot, the satellite passed 182 times and only two images were usable. The real work was building a chain that knows what to keep.
- Full chain industrialised: ingestion, preprocessing, training, evaluation, inference, exposed as a service.
- Forecasting model combining remote sensing indices, weather data and agronomic data.
- Model outputs integrated into the dashboards of cooperatives and funders.
Python/PyTorch/Google Earth Engine/Sentinel-2/scikit-learn/GeoPandas/PostGIS
02
E-PineA, B2B export platform
Platform funded by international donors · Biolife Tech
End to end rebuild of a critical platform, raised to the standard its international funders required.
- Plot reservation, payments, orders and contracts, with automatic status handling driven by the delivery mode.
- Forecasting engine: harvest windows, tonnage estimation and capacity recalculation after partial reservation.
- Field application able to run where connectivity is poor or absent, with queue based synchronisation.
Architecture/API Platform/Symfony/PostgreSQL/Docker
03
Agent network management
Operator of the MTN, Celtiis and Ecobank agent networks
Tracking thousands of field agents, knowing where they are, what they report and what it is worth.
- Dynamic forms configurable without technical intervention.
- Geofencing, fine grained role management and activity statistics.
- Led a team of four developers across the programme.
Architecture/Spring Boot/Symfony/Docker/Data
04
Rankings, West African science directory
MFSG Afrique
Listing and surfacing West African researchers in a single reference kept up to date.
- Advanced filtering, self registration and account validation.
- Bulk creation and updates through spreadsheet import.
- Personal space: subscription, profile updates and role management.
Data modelling/Symfony/REST API
05
Hymep, audit and compliance management
Audit firm · Growth-In
Planning audits, assigning tasks, tracking findings and proving compliance.
- Findings tracked end to end, from the field record to closure.
- Synchronisation between the back office and on site collection, with evidence capture.
Business Analysis/Architecture/PostgreSQL/Angular
06
Wispr, encrypted messaging
ICT Consulting
A messenger where the content stays unreadable to everyone, including whoever hosts it.
- End to end encryption, media sharing and real time voice communication.
- Key management, authentication and message distribution at scale.
Security/Python/Architecture/Firebase
Organisations served
Biolife TechMTNCeltiisEcobankEurocham BeninMFSG AfriqueSwiss governance programmeExpress CoursierDLTresorsHymep
05Path
One step at a time
Six years, several houses, and each time one step higher. These are the ones that count.
The climb
01/05·MFSG Afrique
March 2022 to October 2024
Cotonou, Benin
MFSG Afrique
Full-stack Engineer
Design and delivery of Rankings, the reference directory of West African scientists.
July 2022 to February 2024
Cotonou, Benin
Fractal-In
Technical Lead
Leading a team of four developers across several client programmes: planning, review and technical arbitration.
Since January 2022
Cotonou, Benin
ICT Consulting
Software Architect
Architecture and technical leadership on client programmes in fintech, social networks and online commerce.
June 2024 to 2026
Abomey-Calavi, Benin
Biolife Tech
Technical Lead, AI and Data Platforms
Heading engineering on an agricultural digitalisation programme. Upstream requirement analysis, architecture choices driven by scale and security, accountability through to going live, and establishing the AI and machine learning practice.
Since July 2024
Cotonou, Benin
Growth-In
Founder and Chief Executive
Leading the group and its two divisions. End to end delivery for startups and small businesses: framing, architecture, build, deployment and coordination of a multidisciplinary team.
Before that: DLVPlus (2020 to 2023) and Waouh Monde (2020 to 2021), on logistics platforms, institutional directories and internal products.
06Education
It all started in a classroom
Five years at a desk, two countries, one blackboard and a lot of chalk. The rest was learned on projects that were going wrong, but the foundation comes from here.
On the board
BSc in Computer Science
ESGIS, Benin/2018 to 2021
Technical Baccalaureate
Lycée Technique Ganga, Bamako, Mali/2015 to 2017
Degrees
- ESGIS, Benin2018 to 2021
- Lycée Technique Ganga, Bamako, Mali2015 to 2017
Languages
FrenchFluent
EnglishProfessional
07Contact
The first conversation costs nothing.
Describe the situation as it is, even if it is messy. I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person, and what I would do in your place.
Available for engagements, advisory work and institutional partnerships.
Félix Laurent Worou
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