Bernard Parah
Chief Executive Officer at Qala
Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolBernard Parah is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 11 years’ experience building teams and payments infrastructure focused on Bitcoin and market-creating fintech. As CEO of Bitnob and co-founder of Qala, he combines product and technical leadership—shipping Bitcoin payments rails while training African developers in Bitcoin and Lightning development. He has a track record scaling distributed engineering teams and delivering web and blockchain products for clients across multiple continents, from government integrations to offshore energy launches. Based in Jos, Nigeria, Bernard blends deep interest in economics and history with a pragmatic focus on freedom-oriented monetary tech, and he’s known for running mission-driven developer programs that pay and place talent globally.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Koforidua Technical University
English, french (passable)
Stackoverflow
2,157reputation
662kreached
64answers
39questions
django
top-5%
Github Skills (109)
peer-to-peer10
cryptocurrency10
p2p10
wallet10
lightning10
staging10
bitcoin10
cryptography10
blockchain10
daemon10
django9
api9
lightning-network9
bitcoin-core9
hardware-wallet9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
OpenData233/Opendata233
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:93 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 23 days
keepaimpoliticselectionpublic-participation
b3h3rkz/sticklogs
Aug 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:22 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
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