Summary
Emmanuel Buah is a seasoned founder and CTO with 11 years of hands-on experience building product-led fintech and travel technology companies from idea to market. As Cofounder & CTO of Airfordable, he led product, payments and risk strategies that sustained growth through the pandemic, retained the entire team, and forged strategic partnerships such as with Priceline. He combines engineering leadership with company-building skills—hiring and mentoring engineers, defining culture, and driving go-to-market execution since his first startups in 2012. His background spans IoT-to-cloud solutions, information architecture, and early-stage product-market fit work, informed by YC entrepreneurship training and a CS & Mathematics BA. Pragmatic and resilient, he’s as comfortable defining cross-functional KPIs as he is architecting systems that move money and data reliably.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Y Combinator
BA CS & Mathematics, BA CS & Mathematics at Lawrence University