Chinedu Okpala
Founder at Waytu
Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana
Summary
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Top SchoolChinedu Okpala is a founder and software engineer with 8 years of experience delivering full-stack production systems, specializing in backend development with Node.js, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL. He has led product and technical direction at startups—most notably shaping Complete Farmer’s Buyer product architecture, driving a zero-data-loss database migration, and evolving the platform toward a service-oriented design. More recently he’s built a real-time ride-matching backend for Waytu and worked as an AI trainer-engineer, refining generated code for production readiness on Anthropic projects. Comfortable across React/Next.js and React Native, he pairs frontend sensibility with backend scalability and pragmatic system design. Colleagues describe him as a builder who prefers improving existing systems and solving messy operational problems that unlock growth. Based in Accra, he blends hands-on engineering with early-stage product leadership and operational rigor.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Sikkim Manipal University - Distance Education
Stackoverflow
65reputation
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Github Skills (127)
ui-components10
css-in-js10
uikit10
chakra10
chakra-ui10
wai-aria10
react-applications10
react10
reward10
modular9
react-components9
gatsby9
ark-ui9
angular9
backpack9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AllStackDev1/chi-weds-chi
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:23 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
AllStackDev1/allstackdev1
Jul 2020 - Apr 2025
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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