christian obanaka
Software engineer, design engineer, and futures trader. I combine product design, engineering, and firsthand trader knowledge to build focused financial-product experiences.
experience
Most recently, I built futures-trading software at Tradara. Earlier community, support, affiliate, and growth roles at prop firms continue to inform the products I design and engineer.
2025 → Present
Founder · Solution Engineer · Self-Employed
Building a desktop workspace for prop-firm accounts, rules, journals, and payouts.
Aug 2026 → Aug 2026
Software Engineer · Full-Time
Built Tradara’s futures terminal and prop-trading infrastructure.
Nov 2025 → Jul 2026
Head of Community · Full-Time
Scaled the community and improved day-to-day support for active traders.
Feb 2025 → Nov 2025
Community + Affiliate Manager · Full-Time
Grew Discord from 5k to 10k members in five months while improving activity and referrals.
Apr 2022 → Dec 2024
Community Manager · Part-Time
Grew Discord and Telegram from 3k to 7.5k members while halving support response time.
education
University of Port Harcourt
Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics & Computer Science
Port Harcourt, Nigeria
2021 – Oct 2025
Federal Government College
Senior Secondary 1–3
Port Harcourt, Nigeria
2017 – 2020
Wisdom Gate Intl. College
Junior Secondary 1–3
Port Harcourt, Nigeria
2015 – 2017
design engineering capabilities
- product and interface design for desktop and responsive web experiences
- frontend implementation with react, typescript, next.js, and tailwind css
- interaction design, product prototyping, and iterative interface refinement
- design systems, reusable components, and consistent data-dense UI patterns
- accessible names, keyboard navigation, focus behavior, and reduced-motion support
- trading, prop-firm, trader-support, community, and operations domain knowledge
- AI-assisted research, implementation, testing, and review with human ownership of decisions
tools
- design
- figma, design systems, prototyping
- frontend
- react, typescript, next.js, tailwind css
- delivery
- electron, git, cloudflare, vercel, railway, accessibility testing
- operations
- notion, clickup, intercom, zendesk, slack