Prosper Nwankpa is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Peanut Labs™. As CTO, Prosper oversees the software development unit and directs his team in building highly available scaleable systems. Under the aegis of his software architectural genuis, Prosper’s team has built the infrastructure behind Peanut Labs™ unique sampling technology. Sample 3.0™ has helped shape the direction of modern research sampling online, reaching users across more than 70 highly-trafficked social networks in real time to deliver surveys from market research clients. With hundreds of thousands of survey transactions monthly, Peanut Labs™ users and clients have enjoyed an uptime of 99.999% in the past six months.
 
Prosper began his IT career in the early days of social media. Prior to Peanut Labs™, he co-founded, designed and built XuQa.com, a social network application that grew to support a user base of more than 2 million monthly users and 500 million monthly page views.
 
In addition to his love of computers and software, Prosper was President of the Williams Institute of Technology (WIT) from 2002-2004, where he mentored aspiring web engineers. During his tenure, his team built a suite of applications that were immediately put to use by various departments of the college.
 
Prosper holds a B.A. Computer Science from Williams College, Massachusetts.