Tamba Sheku Lamin
Technology Architect · Digital Experience & Agentic AI Leader · Educator & Entrepreneur
New York, NY · Freetown, Sierra Leone (GMT) · tamba@tambalamin.me · tambalamin.me · linkedin.com/in/tambalamin · US citizen
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- 20+enterprise DXP engagements led
- 11DXP/CMS platforms, designated SME
- 55+teaching engagements, Accenture
- 8,000+students and practitioners taught
- 50,000+students reached, West Africa
Summary
Technology architect and digital experience transformation leader with 25 years across US federal government, life sciences, consumer technology, education and international development. Formerly Global Practice Lead for the digital experience platform portfolio and North America Practice Lead at Accenture Song: 1,500+ practitioners, a US $50M–96M pipeline across 10+ platform alliances, designated SME status across eleven DXP/CMS platforms, architect or delivery lead on 20+ enterprise engagements. FY25 Gold Faculty Award, 8,000+ taught; UN Summit of the Future panellist (2024); Udacity Agentic AI Nanodegree; author of the Agentic-First Architecture series on Substack. Founder of TpISENT, Inc.; co-founder of a 50-person Sierra Leonean group; civic technology reaching 50,000+ students. Now an independent Lead Architect, educator, mentor and coach. Still writes code.
Core skills
- Agentic AI architecture, multi-agent systems, MCP
- AI-led SDLC and AI-led DevSecOps enablement
- Enterprise and solution architecture; MACH, headless
- DXP / CMS strategy and delivery; MarTech; DAM (Bynder)
- Contentstack, Contentful, Optimizely, Drupal, Acquia, WordPress VIP
- Pantheon, Liferay, Amplience, Uniform, Strapi
- Cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure); DevSecOps; full-stack development
- Client service delivery; technology sales and pursuit
- Partner and alliance management; global delivery
- Practice building, team building, mentorship and coaching
- Faculty, curriculum, technical and executive education
- Accessibility (Section 508); public-sector delivery
Experience
TpISENT, Inc.
Sep 2026 – PresentFounder & Principal Architect · New York, NY (remote)
- Lead Architect, presales solution engineering, post-sales architecture, partner enablement and team enablement for US, UK and EU clients, corp-to-corp
- Design agentic harnesses (rules, hooks, commands, purpose-built agents) so delivery teams can run an AI-led SDLC and DevSecOps with enterprise-grade review gates and evidence trails
- Deliver 48-contact-hour architecture and engineering intensives and executive cohorts on agentic AI, responsible AI and AI-led delivery; mentor and coach architects, engineers, IT leaders and founders
TpGroup (SL) Limited
PresentChief Executive Officer & Co-Founder · Freetown, Sierra Leone
- Strategy, capital allocation and governance for a 50+ person group in education technology (TpEMIS, TpLEARN, TpISENT Talent Development), real estate (TpESTATE) and heritage tourism (Fambul Tik); 30%+ of profits reinvested in community development
- Led The Eco-Living Oasis at Kent, Sierra Leone's first sustainable vacation community, from first drawing to opening (Nov 2021 – Nov 2026), roughly 80% local and natural materials; ran a 2019 study tour bringing 58+ Gullah descendants and historians to Sierra Leone
Accenture Song
Oct 2020 – Sep 2026Senior Manager, OmniChannel Technology · Global Practice Lead, Digital Experience Platform Portfolio · North America Practice Lead · New York, NY
- Built and led the emerging DXP global practice across 10+ platform alliances (Contentstack, Contentful, Liferay, Optimizely, WordPress VIP, Pantheon, Amplience, Uniform): US $50M–96M pipeline, 1,500+ practitioners across the India, Mexico and Costa Rica delivery centres; built, staffed and certified the open-source bench for every programme, then handed it over and repeated
- SME/architect, technology architect and technical delivery lead simultaneously across 20+ enterprise engagements; designated SME/SMA status on eleven DXP/CMS platforms; multi-year member of the Acquia Drupal Strategic Committee and the Contentstack Strategic Partner Group, contributing product feedback and direction
- Shaped and led US $100M+ in active pipeline across seven concurrent pursuits in FY26; averaged roughly US $44M in pipeline led and US $6M in revenue a year
- FY26: client service delivery and MarTech assessment lead for two concurrent clients (a US energy retailer, a national entertainment-industry union); DAM functional lead on a consumer goods company's Bynder assessment, with an AI agent I built accelerating the team; sold and delivered a global insurer's performance-tuning assessment solo
- Led three concurrent engagements for a global technology company as DXP lead and architect, growing the offshore team from 5 to 20+ (peak 30+) and winning a second phase; Contentstack solution architect for a US specialty retailer, earning contract extensions
- Delivered a US $2.5M flagship brand relaunch for a global spirits company with 33 FTEs (600,000 consumer records migrated, customer identity for 50 brands) on time and on budget after a documented turnaround of client confidence; delivery lead for a top-five pharmaceutical company's WordPress VIP capability factory, developing a successor architect and handing over to the India team
- Built agentic tooling (rules, hooks, commands, purpose-built agents) enabling teams to run an AI-led SDLC and DevSecOps, used on programmes valued at over $10M; first cohort of ~150 Reinvention Deployed Engineers; Technology Quotient 14/14, Agentic AI assessment passed; 38 AI courses (180+ hours) in one year
- Faculty across the Architecture (TAF, MAPS, AAS, ETAS), Analysts and Experience Hire schools: 55+ teaching engagements, 8,000+ students and practitioners; FY23 Bronze and FY25 Gold Faculty Awards; Bronze Faculty tier, Reinvention with Agentic AI; mentored teams to certification until Accenture led Acquia Drupal certifications globally (2017–2019)
Accenture Interactive
Jan 2018 – Mar 2021Drupal Practice Lead & Technology Architect · New York, NY
- Led the Drupal practice and served as technology architect on digital experience programmes across life sciences, consumer and public-sector clients
- Content technology lead for a global pharmaceutical company across five countries (Germany, Canada, India, China, Japan): global CMS assessment, gap analysis and future-state platform strategy
- Application Architect for the State of North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (Apr 2020 – Mar 2021): re-architected COVID-19 public information platforms for unpredictable peak demand
Accenture Federal Services
May 2016 – Jan 2020Business Process Architect, Senior Manager · United States (two sites)
- Integration and business process architect on a four-year programme migrating one of the highest-traffic US federal web estates (9.4M average, 21.7M peak daily page views) to a modern content platform on managed cloud: 159,000 pages, 113,000 static files, 60,000 HTML pages and 326 media assets, to schedule and budget
- Cut recurring subscription fees by US $120K+ a year through platform and identity integration and single sign-on; mobilised, trained, coached and mentored the developer and test team in San Antonio, Texas
Accenture
Mar 2015 – Dec 2017Technology Developer Manager · New York, NY
- 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
- Architected digital connected-products platforms for IoT use cases (connected vehicles and fleets, smart buildings, connected commerce, blockchain asset management); technology architect and delivery lead for a global design-software company's developer portal, on time and on budget
CDI Corporation
Apr 2014 – Mar 2015Application Programmer / Drupal Consultant, embedded at the New York State Office of Information Technology Services · Albany, NY
- Managed a portfolio of 40+ state agency websites including ny.gov; documented and improved platform standards
Pace University
2014 – 2020Adjunct Professor, Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems · New York, NY
- Taught IT610, Web Development with Content Management Systems, to graduate students (Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, headless CMS); students built and deployed complete CMS-based websites as capstones
SaloneTech Business Solutions LLC
May 2005 – Apr 2014Co-Founder, Technical Architect & Senior Project Manager · New York, NY and Freetown, Sierra Leone
- Co-founded a Drupal, WordPress and Joomla firm; grew a US $250,000+ portfolio running three concurrent projects a month, scaling the team from 4 to 25 in twelve months
- Configuration lead, front-end/UI lead and Section 508 SME on New York City Department of Education's special education case management system (SESIS, 2009 – 2013), 1,600+ schools and 200,000+ students; recommendations adopted into the vendor's core product
- Project manager and lead architect for IFES election-violence monitoring platforms in the Maldives and Senegal (130 monitors), delivered against a fixed election date with follow-the-sun teams
- Led digital transformation for Njala University and the University of Sierra Leone at US $15,000 against a US $40,000 independent budget; delivered the Government of Sierra Leone Open Government Initiative platform; designed solar-capable thin-client school laboratories cutting operating cost by about 40%
Canon Business Solutions
Oct 2007 – Nov 2009Pre- and Post-Sales Engineer (Digital Systems Engineer) · New York, NY
Education
- M.Sc., Information Management and Telecommunications — Polytechnic Institute of New York University (now NYU Tandon School of Engineering), 2010; graduated top of class
- B.Sc., Information Technology and Telecommunications — New York Institute of Technology, 2008; cum laude
- A.A.S., Applied Science — TCI College of Technology, New York, 2006; magna cum laude
Certifications and awards
Agentic AI Nanodegree (Udacity, 2026) · Senior Technology Architect Certification (Accenture, 2021) · Song Delivery Lead, Certified (Accenture, 2021) · Digital Delivery Lead, Foundation (Accenture, 2019) · Acquia Certified Developer, Drupal 8 (Acquia, 2017) · Acquia Certified Front End Specialist, Drupal 8 (Acquia, 2017) · Acquia Certified Site Builder, Drupal 8 (Acquia, 2017) · Acquia Certified Site Builder, Drupal 7 (Acquia, 2015) · Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA), Windows Server 2003 (Microsoft) · Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) (Microsoft) · CompTIA Network+ (CompTIA) · CompTIA A+ (CompTIA) · Canon ATSP Certified Systems Engineer (Canon)
FY25 Gold Faculty Award, Accenture Architecture Community (2025) · FY23 Bronze Faculty Award, Accenture Architecture Community (2023) · Bronze Faculty tier, Reinvention with Agentic AI programme, Accenture (2025) · Technology Quotient (TQ) 14/14, Agentic AI assessment passed, Accenture (2026) · Chief Learning Officer recognition for learning facilitation, Accenture (2023) · Top-Rated Nonprofit 2020, The Village Link, GreatNonprofits (2020)
In progress: Claude Certified Architect – Foundations · AI for Business Leaders Nanodegree (Udacity) · Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree (Udacity) · AI Programming with Python Nanodegree (Udacity)