Richard Opoku
Software Engineer at Rapid Wristbands
Ghana
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Opoku is a results-driven software engineer and technology leader with a decade of experience delivering scalable systems across fintech and services. As CTO and Co-Founder of LeashPay, he combines entrepreneurial drive with hands-on engineering and product thinking, while currently leading development at Rapid Wristbands in Ghana. His career spans senior roles at expressPay Ghana Limited, PaySwitch, and PushPress, where he built and shipped reliable software across payments, operations, and systems integration. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Ghana and an MSc in Information Technology Management from South East Technological University, reflecting a strong blend of hardware-minded engineering and IT management. Based in Ghana, he has a track record of turning complex requirements into practical solutions, with a background that blends research, full-stack software, and cross-functional collaboration. He has contributed to leadership and hands-on coding, bridging startup agility with production-grade delivery.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Engineering at University of GhanaMaster of Science - MS, Information Technology Management, Master of Science - MS, Information Technology Management at South East Technological University
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Github Skills (130)
laravel10
php10
laravel-framework10
projection9
application-monitoring9
newrelic9
react9
aggregate9
reactjs9
monitoring8
opentelemetry8
docker-container8
distributed-tracing8
jaeger8
logging8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
anabeto93/framework
Dec 2018 - Apr 2024
Contributions:4 pushes in 5 years 4 months
anabeto93/signoz
May 2024 - Mar 2025
SigNoz is an open-source observability platform native to OpenTelemetry with logs, traces and metrics in a single application. An open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic, etc. 🔥 🖥. 👉 Open source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) & Observability tool
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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