Justus Ortlepp

Justus Ortlepp

Product Manager

Justus Ortlepp

With more than 20 years’ experience in the Business Analysis field, Justus has honed his skills in problem solving and system building in South Africa in companies such as IBM, First National Bank (FNB) and Deloitte. At FNB he designed a mainframe-based graph database for customer networks as well as a third-party fund management platform for which the project team earned an FNB Innovators first place award. At Deloitte, Justus attended client projects for the South African Reserve Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from where he pursued full-time the design and development of an Open Source Software Financial Crime Risk Management solution focused on real-time transaction monitoring. That software is now called Tazama, a project of the Linux Foundation.

Tazama Real-Time Open Source Software for Fraud Detection

Tazama is a recently launched project in the Linux Foundation. Tazama offers open source real-time transaction monitoring software for fraud and money-laundering detection. Our presentation introduces the product and its origin story, from its ideation as one of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Level One principles, to its MVP launch in April 2022 and ultimately its integration into the Li…