LordGhostX Timeline

Welcome to my Timeline, nothing fancy here. It's more like a diary where I dump stuff because I don't want to forget it.

2002
March 23

He who would be referred to as The Lord of Ghosts | Everyone's neighborhood ghost was born

2015
March

Wrote my first program with Windows Batch Scripting

2016
April

Compiled Hello World in C++ using Visual Studio 2010

2016
July

Compiled Hello World in C# using Visual Studio 2013

2016
August

Started Web Development with HTML & CSS thanks to TheNewBoston

2016
November

Launched my first PC game with C# & Unity3D game engine

2017
February

The "Blender Artists" community was born & I made my first 3D model with Blender3D

2017
April

Started venturing into Cyber Security & Penetration Testing

2017
June

Installed & used the Linux Operating System for the first time (Kali)

2017
July - November

Language Learning Rush (Jumping from one programming language to another), grabbed Python, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, Brainfuck, C, JQuery, Java, Swift, and others I can't recall

2017
August

Created my first blog, which was named Greyhatcommunity, and a telegram channel that grew over 10K members

2017
August

Created my first programming language (GhostScript), which I built upon Ruby with the simplicity of Python aimed at programming beginners

2017
September

Became a founding father of the SoloLearn Nigeria community (SLN)

2017
December

Discovered & reported my first security vulnerability to Google. It was a flaw that allowed the bypassing of 2-factor authentication of Google products on android

2018
January

Went into the world of Cryptocurrency & Blockchain

2018
February

Built PUMMP3r 1.0 with Python, which was a Cryptocurrency P&D bot

2018
April

Released the first version of HashDB (formally JnDB), which is a lightweight NoSQL database management system built with Python

2018
April

First time I made money with programming. Sold PUMMP3r 2.0 for 0.1 BTC ~ $800

2018
May - December

Learning about cryptocurrency trading, forex and built Niggrix ~ an automated cryptocurrency trading robot, trading backtesting algorithms, and EA systems with MQL4

2018
June - July

Built and released a ransomware (GhostCrypt) & graduated from High School at 16

2018
November

Trained my first machine learning model with Azure ML Studio

2018
December

Discovered a security vulnerability in PayStack & Flutterwave, which allowed an attacker to intercept and tamper transactions making the payment processor systems read a successful transaction when nothing occurred

2019
March

Passion for Artificial Intelligence started through learning about Deep Learning & DSN IndabaX Program

2019
May

Got my first programming gig, it was to develop a website for a client, got paid ₦40,000

2019
July

Joined DSN through their Python & Machine Learning Class for pre-uni students

2019
June

Attended my first tech hackathon

2019
September

Gave a presentation at POIC 2019 to over 5000 attendees (Largest audience ever)

2019
September

Became a DSC Unilag Core team member for the 2019/2020 session

2019
October

Built a web app with Django and Tensorflow, which helps medical practitioners diagnose patients faster and quicker.

2019
November

Qualified to attend the 2019 DSN Data Science Bootcamp

2020
February

Was opportuned to attend the launch of the Google Hub in Lagos, Nigeria

2020
February

Attended the first-ever Open Source Festival in Africa

2020
March

Was a participant at the maiden FSI hackathon, GLH hackathon, and CCHub Data hackathon

2020
April

Became the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of CleanPick Waste Management Startup

2020
April

Wrote my first technical article on my Hashnode blog

2020
May

Launched v2 of animeX with even better features

2020
June

Made my first seven digits in NGN and got myself a Macbook Pro, Samsung A71, and many others

2020
July

Gave a talk at Flaskcon, which is an international conference for the Flask community

2020
August

Created a miniature cryptocurrency remittance hitting $1,000 in volume in the first month

2020
August

Joined the 2020/2021 DSC Unilag Core Team

2020
August

Created a telegram bot for monitoring developer job listings and got 900+ users after its launch https://t.me/devjobhub

2020
September

Built AnimeHive, which is a telegram bot for downloading anime right from telegram, also provides recommendations and info about an anime https://t.me/animehive_bot

2020
September

Become a core team member of the technicalities team at OtakuTV, which is the biggest anime community in Nigeria

2020
October

Helped the team at Telos Blockchain setup their airdrop system, which managed over 35K users (currently the biggest app I maintain)

2020
October

Became an Ambassador at Auth0, which is a company dedicated to web security and authentication (I'm a digital superman 😎🤩)

2020
November

Gave a talk at the first-ever Cybersecurity themed DSC event in Africa

2020
November

Became an Ambassador at PettySave, which is a fintech helping Nigerians save and Invest money

2020
November

Signed my first paid technical writing contract with a USA based company - Fauna

2020
December

Gave a talk on Technical Writing at DSC Federal Polytechnic Bida. You can find slides and Youtube recordings here

2020
December

Released my 2020 year in review

2021
February

Was featured in Developer Chronicles podcast

2021
February

Was featured in GEN-TECH podcast

2021
February

Was featured on Fauna Community Spotlight for open-source contributions made to the company

2021
March

Became the Open Source Africa (OSCA) Chapter Lead for Yaba

2021
March

Got my article featured and published on Git Tower

2021
April

Was awarded the "Ambassador of the Month" award at Auth0

2021
June

Became a LogRocket author

2021
July

Won the SoLo Funds Hackathon hosted by Unicorn

2021
August

Won the BoardRoom One Hackathon hosted by Unicorn

2021
September

MongoDB merged my PR into their Golang driver repository

2021
September

Became a DSC Unilag Core team member for the 2021/2022 session

2021
October

Received swags from MongoDB for my community contributions

2021
November

Got my first ever full-time role at a US-based fintech + blockchain company

2021
November

Gave a talk at DevFest Abeokuta, first time travelling by train too

2021
December

Released my 2021 year in review

2022
February

Won the Best use of payments product award category at the Stitchathon 2022 Hackathon

2022
March

Became a full-time Technical Writer at Unstoppable Domains - a web3 company that's building decentralized digital identities for the world with NFT domains

2022
March

Purchased my first NFT domain from Unstoppable Domains

2022
April

Minted my first NFT - Los Muertos World

2022
April

Sold my first NFT for 0.5 ETH ~ $1,647

2022
June

First time flying in a plane, also toured the city of Abuja

2022
July

I got interviewed by the Grow Into Tech team

2022
August

Got promoted at Unstoppable Domains 6 months after I joined the company

2022
September

First time going on a road trip, also toured the city of Asaba

2022
October

Spoke at 5 events on Open Source and Hacktoberfest

2022
October

Created an investment syndicate with an annual capital of $388.8K

2022
November

First time flying out of Nigeria, also toured the city of Nairobi, Kenya

2022
November

Got my first car ~ Hyundai Santa Fe

2022
December

Got another promotion at Unstoppable Domains 9 months after I joined the company

2022
December

Planned and organized Garri Hangout 1.0 in less than a week, got over 300 people to attend, and raised ₦642,000 in sponsorships

2022
December

Released my 2022 year in review

2023
January

My team got laid off from Unstoppable Domains

2023
February

Got another car ~ Ford Edge Limited

2023
March

Made significant progress to my 2018 project (Niggrix) and started building an MVP

2023
March

Joined the Stack Shift dWeb fellowship (Zeta) cohort

2023
April

Became a full-time Technical Writer at Status/Waku - a web3 project that's uncompromising web3 communication at scale

2023
May

Launched the MVP of my research project (Trade Maven) on a live portfolio

2023
June

Spoke at the biggest tech event in Ilorin ~ Career Fest to over 2000 attendees

2023
July

Raised over $50,000 in pledges for a project idea I shared with friends in less than 24 hours

2023
August

Took time to visit and tour the city of Port Harcourt, Nigeria and Kigali, Rwanda

2023
September

Concluded my raising round at $90,000 for a project (Trade Maven) I originally targeted to raise $30,000.

2023
October

Got yet another car ~ Ford Edge Limited. Had to write off the previous because of an accident

2023
November

Took time to visit and tour the cities of Enugu and Nsukka, spoke at Polygon Dev Conference too

2023
December

Designed a modern-day chess with an 11x11 grid and modified game rules named Operation BattleGrid: Strategic Frontiers

2023
December

Built a peer-to-peer, private, permissionless, and decentralized communication protocol called GhostNet

2023
December

Released my 2023 year in review