Susan Olapade
I build AI products that people actually use.
Co-founder & CPO at Akaani, where I own product and growth for an AI nutrition platform. Business Intelligence Engineer at AWS Marketplace, where I drove adoption of data products and pioneered agentic AI systems in production.
I think in systems, ship with urgency, and bring founder-level ownership to every problem.
Selected Work
What I've built
Co-founder & CPO · iOS & Android
Akaani — First AI Nutrition App for Nigerian Meals
Built the first app to track macros for Nigerian meals. Proprietary database of 200+ meals powers Lu, an AI assistant that generates weekly meal plans and grocery lists. 2,000+ signups, 42% DAU lift post-Lu.
Business Intelligence Engineer II · AWS Marketplace
AWS AI Insights — From Narrative Automation to Agentic Systems
Pioneered LLM-powered narrative automation for AWS Marketplace reporting. Now building agentic AI systems in production: multi-dimensional renewals agent and oncall support agent that automates data access and discovery.
Business Intelligence Engineer II · AWS Marketplace
AWS Data Products — Scalable Decision Systems
Built 3 high-adoption decision systems: 5,000+ users, 40 hrs/week saved, load time cut from 90s to 5s across 100M+ rows. Promoted to L5 based on scope and impact.
Business Intelligence Engineer II · AWS Marketplace · In Progress
Renewals Propensity Model — Predicting Churn Before It Happens
Building a predictive model that scores expiring AWS Marketplace Private Offers by renewal likelihood, shifting teams from reactive outreach to proactive, data-driven prioritization.
About
Builder at the intersection
I'm a builder working at the intersection of AI, data, and user experience.
At Akaani, I co-founded and lead product for the first AI-powered nutrition app for Nigerian meals, available on iOS and Android. I manage a product designer and product marketer, own the full growth funnel, and built the system architecture that powers Lu: a proprietary database of 200+ Nigerian meals layered with rule-based filtering and LLM reasoning.
At AWS, I was promoted to L5 Business Intelligence Engineer for building scalable data products used by 5,000+ people across AWS Marketplace. I pioneered the first LLM-powered narrative automation for Marketplace reporting and am currently shipping agentic AI systems in production: a multi-dimensional renewals agent (in testing) and an oncall support agent that automates data access and metrics discovery.
My edge is thinking in systems: understanding how data flows, where decisions break down, and how AI can close that gap. I'm moving fully into product, combining founder experience, AI systems thinking, and AWS-scale execution.
Thinking
How I think about AI systems
Structured data + model reasoning
The most reliable AI systems combine rule-based structure with model flexibility — not one or the other.
Decision systems vs dashboards
Dashboards show data. Decision systems guide action. The gap between them is where most product thinking lives.
Feedback loops improve AI
A system that learns from user behavior compounds in value. Static outputs don't.
Reactive → proactive AI
The next generation of AI products won't wait to be asked. They'll surface the right insight at the right moment.
Currently
Outside of work
Watching
The Lincoln Lawyer
Legal drama with sharp writing. Good reminder that framing matters as much as facts.
Reading
Hacking Growth
Sean Ellis & Morgan Brown. Thinking through acquisition loops, activation, and what growth actually means for AI products.
Moving
Solidcore · Indoor cycling · Mat pilates
The kind of workouts that require full presence. Good counterweight to systems thinking.
Also into
Cooking
Growing up cooking Nigerian food is why I built Akaani. When the tools don't exist for the food you eat, you build them.
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