Busisiwe Mahlangu

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Product Manager at Vodacom · Lending · underwriting, compliance

Vodacom
Johannesburg, South Africa · SAST (UTC+2)
3+ years experience
Strathmore University
English, Afrikaans
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Overview

Based in Johannesburg. I work on lending at Vodacom. Grew lending revenue from $2 million to $51 million ARR. Ran 81 customer interviews before writing the first spec. Most at home with underwriting and credit.

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product strategycomplianceunderwritingcredit

Experience

  1. Product Manager
    Dec 2023 - Present
    Vodacom · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Johannesburg, South Africa
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new lending customers from 21 days to 1.
    • Killed 7 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from lending
2025

What went wrong and what worked while scaling lending.

Open-source compliance toolkit
2022

A small library for lending that 805 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. Strathmore University
    BCom, Computer Science
    2019 - 2023

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