Terrence Okafor
Terrence Okafor

Product Designer & Builder with 6+ years of experience, designing products, systems, and AI-native interfaces for tech startups.

Lead Designer at SearchAtlas

Ex Founding Designer at Waza (YC '23) & Lync

Building Nokbase

01 | Lync by Waza

Multi-currency banking for African businesses

  • End-to-end product design from onboarding to invoicing across 30+ currencies
  • Role-based permissions and departmental sub-accounts for enterprise teams
  • Established the design system, brand identity, and all shipped features
SearchAtlas
02 | SearchAtlas

Making an AI agent feel like a collaborator, not a slot machine

  • Designed the agent loop: brief → plan → draft → edit → publish, with human checkpoints at every stage
  • Turned disposable chat outputs into persistent, versioned artefacts teams could actually trust
  • Rebuilt the editor so AI actions happen inline — 35% faster task completion in comparative testing
Nokbase
03 | Nokbase

The memory layer for AI tools

  • Universal context layer: set up once, every AI tool knows it
  • MCP server and REST API for seamless integration
  • Persistent knowledge base across all your AI workflows
04 | Flexbuy

Trust architecture for second-hand commerce

  • Designed escrow payment flow that took buyer confidence from 23% to 78%
  • Built a three-tier trust system from user research with 200+ buyers and sellers
  • End-to-end product design — brand identity, design system, and native app

Experience

SearchAtlas

Lead Product DesignerJan 2026 – Jun 2026

Waza

YC S23
Founding Product DesignerSep 2022 – Dec 2025

Andela

Senior Product DesignerSep 2021 – Sep 2022

Malton

Lead Web DesignerJun 2021 – Sep 2022

PCPLANET

Web DesignerApr 2020 – Sep 2022