Prince Opara Product & Engineering Leader

I lead digital products and build the teams behind them.

Product and engineering leader with 6+ years of experience building and scaling digital products. I lead product and mobile engineering, combining technical depth with product strategy to turn complex problems into reliable products. My background spans fintech, banking, payments and financial infrastructure.

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Based in Lagos, Nigeria Open to global roles

Selected work

Products I’ve led, built and shipped.

All work, including QA and delivery

ImpactEvery figure names the product, the period and my part in it.

  • −80%

    production defects per release

    After I introduced automated regression and release gates on Raven’s mobile apps. Six months before vs. six months after.

    My team’s work QA and Delivery Automation

  • 99.3%

    transfer success rate, up from 96.1%

    Raven personal app, over 12 months, after I rebuilt the mobile transfer module around a state machine.

    My team’s work Personal Banking

  • <10 min

    to assign a POS terminal, down from 3 days

    BankBox Partner Console at launch. I architected the POS app and white-label plug-in and contributed to the console’s product direction.

    My team’s work Enterprise Tooling

  • 38%

    of active SMEs created a sub-account

    Raven Business, 90 days after launch, against a 25% target. I owned Teams and Sub-Accounts end to end.

    Feature-level SME Banking

Engineering depth

I don’t just spec it. I can build it.

Mobile architecture

Flutter apps built from self-contained feature modules, explicit state machines and permissions the server always re-checks.

Proof: Rebuilt the transfer module as a state machine: transfer success rose from 96.1% to 99.3% over 12 months.

QA automation

A test pyramid with end-to-end tests on every money-critical journey, run on real devices nightly and as a smoke suite on every pull request.

Proof: Regression testing went from 3 days to 40 minutes by month 4.

Delivery automation

GitHub Actions and Codemagic pipelines with release gates, and staged rollouts that halt themselves on crash spikes.

Proof: Releases went from bi-weekly to weekly; crash-free sessions rose from 98.7% to 99.7%.

See how I build

Principles

How I work.

  1. 1

    Start with the person on the other side of the feature.

  2. 2

    Pick the feature with the strongest case, not the best story.

  3. 3

    Turn rules that make sense on paper into flows people can get through.

  4. 4

    Discovery isn’t done when the feature ships; it’s done when it changed something.

How I make decisions

Contact

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I’m open to global roles leading product, mobile engineering, or both. Email is the fastest way to reach me.

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