The convergence of cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and platform engineering is reshaping how organizations build and deliver digital products. Bolanle Adewusi’s work at the intersection of these technologies demonstrates how strategic technical leadership can transform development processes while delivering substantial business value.
As Senior Technical Product Manager at TELUS Digital, Adewusi has spent the past two and a half years coaching and guiding diverse teams of technical practitioners to foster innovation and efficiency within development processes. Her focus on enhancing reliability, security, and scalability of technology infrastructure has positioned the organization to meet evolving customer expectations while managing technical complexity.
“Modern digital products must operate at a scale and sophistication that would have seemed impossible just a few years ago,” Adewusi reflects. “Cloud technologies and AI provide the capabilities, but realizing their potential requires thoughtful product strategy and platform engineering approaches that make these technologies accessible to development teams.”
Her technical strategies for optimizing low-code and no-code platforms through machine learning concepts and AI models have generated remarkable outcomes. By creating systems that enhance reusability across development projects, Adewusi’s work has led to over five million dollars in cost savings and a 45% reduction in development effort. These results demonstrate how platform engineering investments create compounding value across an organization.
The approach centers on understanding development workflows holistically. Rather than viewing individual projects in isolation, Adewusi examines patterns across the development portfolio, identifying opportunities for standardization, automation, and reuse. Machine learning models analyze code repositories, suggest existing components for new projects, and automate routine development tasks, allowing technical teams to focus on solving novel problems rather than recreating existing solutions.
This platform engineering mindset reflects Adewusi’s extensive experience leading product development across multiple industries. Her career includes over 15 years in consulting, telecommunications, healthcare, non-profit, and space sectors, providing diverse perspectives on how technology solves different categories of problems. At the National Space Research and Development Agency, where she served until May 2021, she led teams launching On-Demand high technology spacer products that drove 200% revenue growth, demonstrating her ability to build scalable platform solutions.
Collaboration remains central to her methodology. Adewusi fosters partnerships across multiple cross-functional teams during build, prototyping, and testing phases for newly developed features. This collaborative approach has improved delivery time by 30%, proving that breaking down organizational silos and encouraging knowledge sharing accelerates innovation while improving quality.
Her leadership extends beyond technical architecture to encompass the full spectrum of product management responsibilities. She defines and tracks service-level agreements, key performance indicators, and objectives and key results to ensure product metrics align with business goals. This balanced focus on technical excellence and business outcomes prevents the common pitfall of pursuing sophisticated technology that fails to deliver measurable value.
Financial stewardship complements her technical work. Adewusi facilitates effective use of corporate funds while maintaining budget compliance, and manages vendor contract terms to optimize operational effectiveness. In an era of economic uncertainty, this financial discipline ensures that technical investments deliver returns that justify their costs.
User research grounds strategic decisions throughout her work. Through quarterly quantitative and qualitative methods, Adewusi identifies user needs and pain points, ensuring that platform investments serve actual requirements. This research revealed opportunities to optimize customer journeys through personalization, insights she applied when leading product development for Canada’s first video streaming bundle service in her previous role at TELUS Digital, where she increased lead conversion by 65% and achieved 20% growth in customer acquisition.
Risk management receives systematic attention. Adewusi identifies risks, assumptions, and dependencies while managing mitigation plans with consistent monitoring of progress and performance. She ensures product compliance through data governance frameworks, recognizing that in telecommunications, regulatory compliance and data protection are fundamental requirements rather than optional considerations.
As organizations increasingly recognize platform engineering as strategic capability rather than technical infrastructure, leaders like Adewusi demonstrate how combining technical expertise with product management discipline creates sustainable competitive advantage in digital markets.
