Bakene is the consulting & product studio founded by Babacar GUEYE — MDM Specialist & Enterprise Architect with 10+ years in banking, insurance, and industry. Structuring data. Building AI-native products. Bridging IT and Business.
Two modes: senior consulting for enterprises, and product development for the market.
Master Data Management is the invisible backbone of enterprise performance. Bakene designs and governs MDM platforms — from data modeling to SAP referential alignment, data quality rules, and M&A data integration.
From ETL/ELT pipelines to LLM-powered applications — Bakene builds the infrastructure that turns data into decisions. Python, Snowflake, pgvector, and agentic workflows.
10+ years bridging IT and Business. From regulatory programs (AML/LCB-FT, GDPR) to digital transformation roadmaps and PMO, Bakene provides the strategic layer that makes technology land.
Senior expertise. Builder mindset. Built for the AI era.
10+ years across banking (Société Générale), insurance (Allianz), and industry (Givaudan). Bakene brings the depth of someone who has been in the war rooms — not just consulted from the outside.
Not just a strategist talking about AI — Bakene builds with it daily. LLM-powered products, agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, and semantic search are active workstreams, not slide decks.
The real value is rarely in the technology itself — it's in making it land. Bakene bridges the gap between technical teams and business stakeholders, turning complexity into clarity and delivery.
Enterprise consulting and personal products — two sides of the same ambition.
MDM Product Designer on Givaudan's enterprise data platform. Designing referential models (Material, Packaging, Customer, Org), governing M&A rebinding waves, and aligning SAP data flows across 20+ countries.
Product Owner on the digitalization of core banking processes at national scale. Designed BPM orchestration flows and led the IT/Business alignment for a major decommissioning program.
Led the expansion of Anti-Money Laundering daily screening for Allianz France. Coordinated across IT teams in France, Germany, India, and Mauritius under strong ACPR regulatory pressure.
Invoicing SaaS tailored for African SMEs: conversational AI copilot, semantic search, OCR for document extraction, and Wave/Orange Money payment integration on the roadmap.
Mobile platform connecting tourists with local guides. AI-generated audio tours, AR compass POC, and a booking flow built on React Native + AWS Cognito.
Agentic workflow where Grok monitors X/Twitter signals, Gemini synthesizes decisions, and Alpaca executes trades — with risk guardrails built in at every step.
React Native price comparison app for the Senegalese market, with Firebase backend for catalog sync and real-time user flows.
Collaborative project management with Team Workspaces and Kanban boards. Designed for remote-first teams.
Core stack across missions and builds
Looking for a senior MDM/Data consultant, or want to explore a product collaboration? Let's talk.
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