Chima Abafor
Chief Technology Officer Product Lead at Ugarsoft
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolChima Abafor is a product-focused CTO and founder with eight years of experience building scalable fintech, e-commerce, transportation, and education products across emerging markets. He currently leads product and technical strategy at Xend Finance, where his team has launched Africa’s first Binance Smart Chain DeFi bank and tokenization infrastructure for real-world assets. Comfortable spanning hands-on engineering (Java, Spring, NodeJS, React Native, .NET) and cloud architecture (GCP, AWS, Azure), he combines product management with deep software design and business analysis. His track record includes co-founding Ogwugo and Ugarsoft and shipping consumer platforms and blockchain micropayment solutions like Wicrypt and Switchwallet. Unusually for a technologist, he balances rapid product iteration with user-focused onboarding that has driven thousands of non-crypto users into DeFi. Based in Lisbon, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a curiosity that extends to classical piano performance.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng Electronic Engineering, B.Eng Electronic Engineering at University of Nigeria, Nsukka
English, Igbo, Yoruba, French
Stackoverflow
23reputation
4kreached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (9)
dynamic-feature6
android-studio6
android-app-bundle6
dynamic-feature-module6
dynamic-delivery6
android6
java6
4g1
openwrt1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
xendfinance/leaderboard
Dec 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:58 commits in 6 months
kolocoda/portfolio
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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