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02 — Education

Every course ends with something running.

For leaders who need a team that can ship with AI in the loop, and for architects and engineers ready for the next step. Teaching is where this company started.

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Course

TpISENT Talent Development intensive

Hands-on, 48-contact-hour intensive for architects, software engineers, developers, IT professionals, IT managers and IT executives.

Every session ends with something running: infrastructure, platform and application layers in turn, with specification discipline and AI pair-programming applied from day one.

Infrastructure layer3 topics
Platform layer3 topics
Application layer3 topics
Specification discipline3 topics
AI pair-programming3 topics
Capstone2 topics
Curriculum, tracks and pricing
Mentorship

Mentorship and coaching

One-to-one mentoring and coaching for architects, software engineers, IT managers, executives and founders, online, on a retainer or in a block of sessions.

Architects and engineers: developing the successor architect, certification paths, design-review practice, and the move from developer to architect to lead
IT managers and executives: what to see, ask and decide about agentic AI, responsible AI and AI-led delivery; how to hold an architecture team to account
Founders and early-career technologists: venture building, positioning and the first technical hires; a standing commitment to the Sierra Leone and West African technology community
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Talks and workshops.

Formats and booking
01
Agentic-first architecture
What changes in an enterprise architecture when agents are first-class actors: reference architecture, protocol layers such as MCP and A2A, data strategy as agent strategy, model selection as an architectural decision, and the governance language that determines how precise your human oversight can be.
02
Running an AI-led SDLC and AI-led DevSecOps
How a delivery team actually runs with agentic coding tools: the rules, hooks, commands and purpose-built agents, the review gates and evidence trail an enterprise will accept, and what changes for architects, testers and security. Drawn from building agentic tooling used on programmes valued at over $10M.
03
From monolith to MACH, and what comes after
Composable and MACH estates in practice: platform selection, DXP, CMS and MarTech consolidation, the migrations that go wrong, and how to design an estate that can absorb agents without another rewrite.
04
Building architecture teams that run without you
Establishing delivery centres in Mexico, Costa Rica and India and handing each to local leadership; why every Accenture programme was a teaching engagement (build the bench, staff it, certify it, hand it over, repeat, until it reached 1,500+); developing successor architects; the faculty practice that produced two architecture-school awards; and why capability transfer is the deliverable, not the afterthought.
05
Digital public goods and civic technology in West Africa
Lessons from the Sierra Leone Learning Passport, the open election data platform adopted by the Independent Media Commission, election-violence monitoring for IFES in the Maldives and Senegal, and low-power ICT laboratories for schools: designing for low bandwidth, institutional continuity and local ownership.
06
Teaching as the core skill of a technologist
Twenty-five years of paid teaching, from secondary-school mathematics to enterprise architects: why the ability to teach is what makes architecture, delivery and leadership transferable, and how to build it into a team.

The teaching record.

500+ people trained and 200+ supervised as at 2014. Documented audiences include programme and project managers, high school teachers, university professors, students, older adults, developers, product owners, CIOs, CTOs, CEOs, managing directors, human rights defenders and political violence monitors.

Paid peer tutor, mathematicsSecondary school, Sierra Leone · Classmates
Peer tutor, TCI College of TechnologyEarly career, New York · College students
IT consultant and instructor, Church on the Hill Older Adults ClubEarly career, New York · Older adults; digital inclusion
Founder and instructor, LAM-TECH Consulting Enterprises, now TpISENT (SL)2001 – present · Community and institutional learners, Sierra Leone
Trainer, SaloneTech client engagements2005 – 2014 · Government staff, university faculty and students, human rights defenders, election monitors, company executives
Adjunct Professor, Pace University, Seidenberg School of CSIS2014 – 2020 · Graduate students; IT610, Web Development with Content Management Systems
Faculty, Accenture Architecture Schools (TAF, MAPS, AAS, ETAS), Analysts School, Experience Hire School and Reinvention with Agentic AI2020 – 2026 · Practising enterprise architects globally; new analysts and experienced hires at the St. Charles campus and Manhattan office
Lead instructor, TpISENT Talent DevelopmentPresent · Architects, engineers, developers, IT managers and IT executives
Mentor and coach, TpISENT, Inc.Present · Architects, engineers, IT managers, executives and founders, one to one

Questions people ask

Who runs the bootcamp in Sierra Leone, the United States and the United Kingdom?

Bootcamp cohorts hosted in Sierra Leone are run, contracted and invoiced by TpISENT (SL) Limited in Freetown. Cohorts hosted in the United States and the United Kingdom are run, contracted and invoiced by TSL Intelligence Labs, Inc. in New York. The domain tslintelligence.ai leads to the bootcamp page, which lists both.

Does Tamba Lamin offer mentorship and coaching?

Yes. Tamba Lamin mentors and coaches architects, software engineers, IT managers, executives and founders one to one, online, on a monthly retainer or in a block of sessions, individually or sponsored by an employer. Architects and engineers work on the move from developer to architect to lead, certification paths and design-review practice; IT leaders and executives on what to see, ask and decide about agentic AI, responsible AI and AI-led delivery; founders on venture building and the first technical hires. He has mentored and coached continuously for twenty-five years, from delivery teams in San Antonio and India to architects across Accenture's architecture schools, and keeps a standing commitment to the Sierra Leone and West African technology community. Email tamba@tambalamin.me with the subject line "Mentorship and coaching".

Does Tamba Lamin offer executive training on agentic AI?

Yes. TpISENT Talent Development runs executive cohorts on agentic AI, responsible AI and AI-led software delivery for IT managers and executives: shorter sessions across the same build-first curriculum as the 48-contact-hour intensive, focused on what leaders must be able to see, ask and decide. Cohorts are delivered online worldwide; in person in Sierra Leone and in New York; in Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria and across West Africa by arrangement; and elsewhere on request.

What teaching credentials sit behind the training?

Tamba Lamin was twice recognised by Accenture Architecture Leadership for teaching the highest number of sessions across its architecture schools, with the FY23 Bronze and FY25 Gold Faculty Awards, and holds the Bronze Faculty tier of the Reinvention with Agentic AI programme. Across Accenture's Architecture, Analysts and Experience Hire schools he delivered 55+ teaching engagements reaching 8,000+ students and practitioners. He was an adjunct professor at Pace University from 2014 to 2020, co-authored research articles there, and has taught continuously since secondary school in Sierra Leone.

Why does Tamba Lamin say every Accenture project was a teaching moment?

Because the open-source platform skills each programme needed (Drupal, Acquia, WordPress VIP, Contentful, Contentstack and the rest) were rarely available on the bench when the work was sold. On every programme he built the bench, staffed it, trained and certified it, handed it over to local leadership and then did the same on the next programme, until that practice reached 1,500+ practitioners across the India, Mexico and Costa Rica delivery centres. He mentored teams through vendor certification until Accenture held more Acquia Drupal certifications than any other partner globally (2017–2019), and represented the practice for several years on the Acquia Drupal Strategic Committee and on the Contentstack Strategic Partner Group, contributing feedback and direction to both products. Capability transfer was the deliverable, not the afterthought.

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