We're a diverse team of engineers, designers, and marketers united by a single mission: making link management smarter, faster, and more accessible for everyone.
Founder & CEO
Visionary full-stack engineer and serial entrepreneur based in Arusha, Tanzania. Mclean built SmartLink Pilot after years of working with marketing teams who needed better link intelligence tools. He leads product strategy, engineering architecture, and business development.
Expertise
Fun fact: Built the first SmartLink prototype in a single weekend.
Head of Product
Product strategist with 8+ years of experience shipping delightful user experiences at scale across FinTech, EdTech, and SaaS companies. Aisha owns the product roadmap and ensures every feature we ship solves a real user problem — not just a cool engineering challenge.
Expertise
Fun fact: Reduced user churn by 40% by redesigning the onboarding flow.
Lead Engineer
Systems architect with deep expertise in high-performance distributed systems, real-time data pipelines, and edge computing. Wei designed SmartLink Pilot's sub-100ms redirect infrastructure and oversees all backend engineering.
Expertise
Fun fact: Reduced average redirect latency from 250ms to under 47ms.
Head of Design
Award-winning product designer creating beautiful, accessible interfaces that users genuinely love. Fatima leads all UX/UI decisions — from the information architecture of our dashboard to the micro-animations that make interactions feel alive.
Expertise
Fun fact: Our design system has reduced new feature dev time by 35%.
DevOps & Infrastructure Lead
Infrastructure expert with a decade of experience maintaining 99.99%+ uptime for high-traffic web applications. Carlos manages our global edge network, CI/CD pipelines, security monitoring, and disaster recovery systems.
Expertise
Fun fact: Set up our alerting system that catches issues before users notice.
Marketing Director
Growth specialist and data-driven marketer who has scaled SaaS products from zero to tens of thousands of users. Emma leads all growth experiments, content strategy, SEO, and partnership development for SmartLink Pilot.
Expertise
Fun fact: Grew organic traffic 380% in 6 months through content strategy.
We're a small, ambitious team that moves fast and ships quality. If you love building things that matter, we'd love to hear from you.
Get in Touch