# About — Tamba Sheku Lamin Tamba Sheku Lamin: the teaching origin story, twenty-five years of architecture and delivery, TpGroup in Sierra Leone, and the Eco-Living Oasis at Kent. *Image: Tamba Sheku Lamin seated indoors, smiling, in a dark jacket* ## It started with teaching I earned my first wage teaching mathematics to my classmates in secondary school in Sierra Leone. I have been paid to teach almost every year since: SAT preparation, English to French speakers, computer packages to small businesses, undergraduates as an adjunct professor at Pace University, and for the past decade, architects and delivery teams inside one of the world's largest professional services firms, where I was recognised with the FY25 Gold Faculty Award and an Agentic AI Bronze Faculty award. Everything else I do is an application of that one skill. ## The arc My first venture, TpISENT, began in 2001 while I was still in school in Sierra Leone, teaching people to use a computer and solving community desktop-publishing needs. It is now an education technology company. In New York I earned three degrees in four years while working full time as a field engineer and running that company: an associate degree in 2006, a bachelor's in 2008 and a master's in information management in 2010, top of class. I had been a peer tutor before I was a professor, and I taught at Pace University from 2014 to 2020 while beginning doctoral research there. From 2005 I ran SaloneTech Business Solutions between New York and Freetown, delivering for the Government of Sierra Leone, Njala University, the University of Sierra Leone, IFES and the Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone, and building Sierra Leone's first open election data platform. The [past-performance record](/past-performance) has the detail. I joined Accenture in 2015. I established MarTech and DXP centres of excellence in Mexico (2015), Costa Rica (2016) and India (2017), recruited, trained and certified the architects and engineers, set the delivery standards, then handed ownership to local leadership. Those three centres became the concentration of the 1,500+ practitioner global practice I later led as Global Practice Lead for the digital experience platform portfolio and North America Practice Lead at Accenture Song. Twenty-five years across US federal government, life sciences, consumer technology, education and international development. For the last three years agentic AI has been the centre of my practice. I was in the first cohort of approximately 150 Reinvention Deployed Engineers trained at Accenture, and I built agentic tooling, rules, hooks, commands and purpose-built agents, enabling teams to run an AI-led SDLC and AI-led DevSecOps. That tooling was used on programmes valued at over $10M. I still write code. I do not architect systems I could not implement myself. Since September 2026 I have worked independently through TpISENT, Inc. in New York. [How to work with me](/work-with-me) sets out the shapes. ## The group I am Chief Executive of TpGroup (SL) Limited, a Sierra Leonean operating group of 50+ people. I set strategy, capital allocation and governance; Joseph Fallah Yondah is Chief Operating Officer. Three operating companies: - **TpISENT (SL)**, education technology: TpEMIS, a multi-tenant education management platform for universities; TpLEARN; and TpISENT Talent Development, our hands-on engineering and architecture [bootcamp](/bootcamp). - **TpESTATE (SL)**, real estate development and eco-friendly residential construction. - **Fambul Tik**, heritage and roots tourism. "Fambul Tik" is Krio for "family tree". In December 2019 we designed and ran "The Sierra Leone–Gullah Connection: The Next Step", a study tour bringing 58+ Gullah descendants, performers, historians and preservationists from North America to Sierra Leone across multiple sites, with travel, accommodation, programming, cultural protocol and a full documentary production delivered end to end. Building the management depth that lets the group run without its founder is the explicit five-year objective. ## Kent *Image: A rocky, forested cove with turquoise water on the Freetown peninsula* TpESTATE's flagship is The Eco-Living Oasis at Kent, Sierra Leone's first sustainable vacation community, on the southern tip of the Freetown peninsula. It is a five-year project I led from first drawing to opening: we broke ground in November 2021 and open on 14 November 2026. It is built with alternative interlocking building technologies and roughly 80% local and natural materials. Designing to what the site and the country can actually supply, rather than to an imported specification, is the same discipline I apply to software estates: constraints first, then the architecture. ## Elsewhere M.Sc. Information Management, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, now NYU Tandon. Doctoral candidate, Pace University. Founding President, Sierra Leoneans in Technology. Dual national of the United States and Sierra Leone, based between New York and Freetown. The full record is on the [CV](/cv). I write at [Agentic-First Architecture](https://tambaslamin.substack.com) on Substack. Email is [tamba@tambalamin.me](mailto:tamba@tambalamin.me). --- Canonical: https://tambalamin.me/about · Markdown twin: https://tambalamin.me/about.md · Reviewed 2026-09-03