Speakers

Shodipo Ayomide

Our 2019 Awesome MC

Shodipo Ayomide is a Developer Advocate & Software Engineer with years of experience building products across different sectors of the ecosystem, Also Shodipo Ayomide is the Founder of Fremer which is a Nigerian based company with an international reach that helps build scalable startup product. He's passionate about solving complex problems by building technological solutions out of business needs, and in the past few years, he has enjoyed working with designers to perfectly translate UI designs to sleek front-end applications that the users love. He also love contributing to open-source technologies.

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William Imoh

Software Engineer and Author @Scotch.io

William is a developer, developer advocate, and community builder passionate at building a better web and its supporting ecosystem. He is an avid writer, speaker, loves to travel and admires Raccoons.

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Abiodun Quadri

Senior JS Engineer @Studio14

Quadri is a professional software Engineer currently working at Studio 14. He has professional experience working with JavaScript, Rust, Python and C, with passion to build anything in JavaScript. Have a deep core understanding of React and React Native, current working towards understanding Embedded systems and iOT.

Talk description:
To make software feel familiar, it should behave like the real world, Animation gives life to your work, every displaying element needs to fade or slide in and out of experience to bring about the super polished professional look you desire. Learn how to leverage our professionally looking designs with React.js animation.

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Orjiewuru Kingdom

unStack Co-Lead & Software Engineer @ShipStation & Andela

Kingdom is a software engineer with years of experience building enterprise applications with different languages and frameworks in different organizations. He's passionate about solving complex problems by building technological solutions out of business needs, and in the past few years, he has enjoyed working with designers to perfectly translate UI designs to sleek front-end applications that the users love. He has also contributed to building robust API services

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Obinna Ekwuno

Media Developer Expert @Cloudinary

Obinna Ekwuno is a media developer expert at Cloudinary and also writes about a lot of exciting stuff on Scotch.io and logRocket some of which include topics on Gatsby, React and GraphQL. He is also very passionate about performance and accessibility for the web

Talk Description
Media accessibility is an important part of accessibility and includes:How you combine colors together How to combine text and images, what alternative to help users to access your website UI This talk will cover aspects of creating and designing component based platforms that can be used by everyone and also provide helpful tools to tackle implementing it . Accessibility should be be treated as a feature and not an after thought.

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Olusegun Ayeni

Software Engineer @Paystack

Olusegun Ayeni is an Open sourcer & Software Engineer at Paystack.

Talk Description
React Native is one of the most popular frameworks for cross-platform mobile development. It is a known fact that it is a good framework for startups who need to get an MVP out but have limited time and people. This talk will highlight how React Native actually helps improve productivity.

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Adora Nwodo

Software Engineer

Nenne Adaora Nwodo who fondly likes to be called Adora is a Software Engineer who is passionate about a bunch of tech stuff, education & music.

Talk Description
The ability to manage state across components is very crucial in a React project and as a result should be done effectively. This talk will show the possibility of using React Hooks & Context API as an alternative to Redux for state management in your React project.

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Aniedi Udo-Obong

Developer Relations, Sub-Saharan Africa @Google

Aniedi is an information technology professional with over 12 years practical experience working with Nigerian startups spanning human resources, media, finance, education, and logistics. He currently manages developer community relationships for Google across West, East and Southern Africa.

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Benny Ogidan

Software Engineer @Andela

Software Engineer at Andela

Talk Description
Setting up a GraphQL project on the frontend in a React app, setting up the cache queries and mutations.

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Shedrack Akintayo

Software Engineer

Shedrack Akintayo is a JavaScript Engineer, who work and has consulted for various companies in Europe and Australia. He has about 3years experience in software development. He is also a Community Manager at the Facebook Developers Circles:Reactjs Nigeria, He has a passion for the community and has helped in so many ways to build tech communities in different parts of Lagos and Nigeria. He has passion for javascript and building communities in Africa.

Talk Description
A Lightning Talk on Getting Started with React

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Akintunde Sultan

Software Engineer

Sultan is a frontend developer, a developer advocate for developers in Africa, and also the founder of DevCareer; a nonprofit that support developers with resources to move from beginners to intermediate writhing 3 months.

Talk Description
The tech ecosystem in Africa is fast-growing, leading to an increasing talent hunt in Africa by various tech organizations, but yet, we still have a low employment rate among developers. This is because a large percentage of the developers are not ready for the market. Africa is showing up more on the map ever than before, but we still have the ratio of beginners to experts at about 9-1. More folks are coming into software development in Africa ever than before, but a lot of them come in the wrong way, many do not have the strong foundation knowledge before trying to be language agnostic. Others are stuck as beginners due to lack of resources; which includes but not limited to good Laptops, Internet access, Mentors and in some cases; Electricity. A very large percentage of developers in the beginner's stage has been there for over 6months, Picking up different languages with the aim to find a focus.

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