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Career lore

It was supposed to be aerospace. Read the altitude profile — it took a while to climb back up.

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CHILDHOOD

  1. 01

    CHILDHOOD

    Gadgets and desktop computers in the house before I knew what they were for.

    Watching dad fix things — and slowly realising that things can be understood, not just used.

    • curiosity
    • screwdrivers
  2. 02

    THE AEROSPACE DREAM

    I wanted to study Aerospace Engineering. I wanted to work on the things that leave the ground.

    “Every kid who looks up long enough ends up wanting to build the thing they are looking at.”

    • planes
    • altitude
  3. 03

    REALITY CHECK

    Aerospace education was expensive.

    Very few schools in Nigeria offered the program at the time.

    • cost
    • access
  4. 04

    MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

    So I chose Mechanical Engineering — still the study of how things move and why they fail.

    I graduated.

    • graduate
    • systems
  5. 05

    TECH BECOMES SERIOUS

    Technology stopped being the thing in the room and started being the thing I was doing.

    • decision
  6. 06

    FRONTEND

    Frontend, because I love beauty. I like watching things come together, and turning ideas into something a person can touch.

    “Because I love seeing the beauty in things.”

    • craft
    • interfaces
  7. 07

    COMMUNITY ERA

    XRPL Campus Lead

    Blockchain MATA Community Lead at university

    Host, NOT Day Nigeria

    Twitter Developer Community Lead — back when it was still Twitter

    • leadership
    • rooms full of people
  8. 08

    CRYPTO CURIOSITY

    Trading first. Curiosity dressed up as a strategy.

    • charts
    • lessons
  9. 09

    WEB3 DEVELOPMENT

    Then building instead of watching: applications, smart contracts, hackathons, blockchain ecosystems.

    • solidity
    • soroban
    • shipping
  10. 10

    NOW

    Startup co-founder. Frontend developer. Web3 builder. Content creator. Writer.

    Still figuring out how many things one person is allowed to be interested in.

    • ongoing

the community era, in detail

  • XRPL

    Campus Lead

    Student ambassador program

  • Blockchain MATA

    Community Lead

    University chapter

  • NOT Day Nigeria

    Host

    On the mic, in front of the room

  • Twitter Developer Community

    Lead

    Before Twitter became X

Four communities before any of the code shipped. Turns out getting people into a room is its own engineering discipline.