Centili

Context

Centili charges mobile subscribers directly on their carrier account across 280+ mobile operators. I led a ten-person product and engineering organisation with P&L responsibility for the three core product lines and served on the corporate development team alongside the CFO — identifying and leading investment-banker conversations.

What I built

• Re-architected and rebuilt the core direct-carrier-billing platform end to end, modernising the rails behind the 280+ operator footprint.
• Built Centili Secure — SIM-based authentication (silent network authentication, identity verification, MFA) — from concept to launch.
• Secured a $50M contract with Walmart through Newavo, a digital storefront built and launched with Walmart Mexico.
• Launched Bloom, a streaming platform, acquiring 10,000+ hours of content to extend the company into direct-to-consumer media.
• Grew individual products to $8K in daily revenue; helped raise $10M+ in equity and $50M in debt to fund the platform's first acquisition.

How it's built

The v3 platform is a MACH architecture — twelve TypeScript microservices and three Next.js portals — that replaced legacy Kafka saga choreography with Temporal-orchestrated workflows, guaranteeing exactly-once payment execution and automatic compensation on failure.

A Kong gateway fronts an Apollo GraphQL BFF; an outbound anti-corruption layer marshals every operator through the CAMARA billing standard and Aduna silent-network-auth, with vendor-specific adapters behind it. A dual-layer risk engine — deterministic rules plus TensorFlow-Serving inference — scores fraud in under 100ms and can escalate to out-of-band CIBA challenges. Data isolation is schema-per-tenant on PostgreSQL; MSISDNs are HMAC-hashed at the edge and never leave identity-service in the clear. Redpanda carries billing, catalog and settlement events; the whole thing targets 10k+ TPS with cross-region failover.

Outcome

A modern payments platform spanning 80+ markets and 280+ carriers, a new SIM-authentication product line, a $50M enterprise contract, and the fundraising that seeded the company's first acquisition.