Allan Kent
Group Product Manager at Luno
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolAllan Kent is a Group Product Manager with 12 years of experience leading digital product strategy and teams across fintech, AI, media, and advertising. Currently at Luno, he progressed from Lead Product Manager to group-level leadership after earlier heading product and advising at Elerian AI, bringing a pragmatic blend of startup agility and enterprise-scale delivery. His career began in technology and creative leadership at Saatchi & Saatchi and Primedia, where he merged technical direction with audience-facing innovation. Allan pairs a hands-on technical background (early work as owner/developer and technical director) with formal training in data analytics and futures studies, giving him a rare ability to translate near-term product choices into longer-term strategic bets. Based in the Western Cape, he is comfortable navigating regulated, fast-moving markets and mentoring cross-functional teams to ship measurable outcomes. An uncommon detail: his postgraduate work in futures studies informs a habit of stress-testing roadmaps against multiple plausible futures, not just current metrics.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Certificate in Data Analytics Data Analytics, Postgraduate Certificate in Data Analytics Data Analytics at Arden UniversityUniversity of Cape TownFish Hoek Senior HighMPhil in Futures Studies Futures Studies, MPhil in Futures Studies Futures Studies at Stellenbosch Business School
English, Afrikaans, Latin, Greek
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Github Skills (48)
virus9
flask6
arch6
heroku6
voice-assistant6
topic-modeling6
fedora6
python6
facebook6
facebook-messenger6
scipy6
nlp5
natural-language-processing5
javascript4
artificial-intelligence4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
allank/big-data
Sep 2016 - Nov 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
allank/monty-python
Sep 2017 - Apr 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
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