03 / A personal archive

The story.

2002 — 2023 / A living history

First programs, new places, lessons learned, and a lot of building in between. The moments that shaped the person behind the work.

Preserved through 2023. For more recent work, explore the projects archive.

2023.

  1. December

    Designed Operation BattleGrid: Strategic Frontiers, an 11x11 chess variant with modified rules.

  2. December

    Built GhostNet, a peer-to-peer decentralized communication protocol.

  3. December

    Published my 2023 year in review.

  4. November

    Visited Enugu and Nsukka, and spoke at Polygon Dev Conference.

  5. September

    Closed a $90,000 raise for Trade Maven, above the original $30,000 target.

  6. August

    Visited Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and Kigali, Rwanda.

  7. June

    Spoke at Career Fest in Ilorin to 2,000+ attendees.

  8. May

    Launched the MVP of Trade Maven on a live portfolio.

  9. April

    Joined Status/Waku as a full-time Technical Writer.

  10. March

    Revisited an earlier trading research project and began building its MVP.

  11. March

    Joined the Stack Shift dWeb Fellowship Zeta cohort.

  12. February

    Bought a Ford Edge Limited.

2022.

  1. December

    Organized Garri Hangout 1.0, attracting 300+ attendees and ₦642,000 in sponsorships.

  2. December

    Published my 2022 year in review.

  3. November

    Took my first international trip and visited Nairobi, Kenya.

  4. November

    Got my first car, a Hyundai Santa Fe.

  5. October

    Spoke at five events on open source and Hacktoberfest.

  6. September

    Took my first road trip and visited Asaba.

  7. July

    Interviewed with the Grow Into Tech team.

  8. June

    Took my first flight and visited Abuja.

  9. May

    Sold my first NFT on Solana.

  10. April

    Minted my first NFT, Los Muertos World.

  11. April

    Sold my first NFT for 0.5 ETH.

  12. March

    Joined Unstoppable Domains as a full-time Technical Writer.

  13. March

    Purchased my first NFT domain from Unstoppable Domains.

  14. March

    Spoke at Open Source Festival 2022.

  15. February

    Won the Best Use of Payments Product category at the Stitchathon 2022 Hackathon.

2021.

  1. December

    Published my 2021 year in review.

  2. November

    Started my first full-time role at a US-based fintech and blockchain company.

  3. November

    Spoke at DevFest Abeokuta.

  4. October

    Received MongoDB swag for community contributions.

  5. September

    Had a pull request merged into MongoDB's Go driver.

  6. September

    Joined the DSC Unilag Core Team for the 2021/2022 session.

  7. August

    Won the BoardRoom One Hackathon hosted by Unicorn.

  8. July

    Won the SoLo Funds Hackathon hosted by Unicorn.

  9. June

    Became a LogRocket author.

  10. April

    Received Auth0's "Ambassador of the Month" award.

  11. March

    Published an article on Git Tower.

  12. February

    Featured on the Developer Chronicles podcast.

  13. February

    Featured on the GEN-TECH podcast.

  14. February

    Featured in the Fauna Community Spotlight for open-source contributions.

2020.

  1. December

    Gave a talk on technical writing at DSC Federal Polytechnic Bida. Slides and recording are available here.

  2. December

    Published my 2020 year in review.

  3. November

    Spoke at a cybersecurity-focused DSC event.

  4. November

    Became an Ambassador at PettySave, a Nigerian fintech focused on savings and investing.

  5. November

    Signed my first paid technical-writing contract with Fauna.

  6. October

    Helped Telos Blockchain set up an airdrop system that managed 35K+ users.

  7. October

    Became an Auth0 Ambassador.

  8. September

    Built AnimeHive, a Telegram bot for anime downloads, recommendations, and information.

  9. September

    Joined the technical team at OtakuTV, one of Nigeria's largest anime communities.

  10. August

    Built a cryptocurrency remittance prototype that processed $1,000 in volume during its first month.

  11. August

    Joined the DSC Unilag Core Team for the 2020/2021 session.

  12. August

    Created DevJobHub, a Telegram bot for developer job listings that reached 900+ users after launch.

  13. July

    Spoke at FlaskCon, an international conference for the Flask community.

  14. June

    Earned my first seven figures in NGN through software work.

  15. May

    Launched animeX v2 with improved features.

  16. April

    Published my first technical article on Hashnode.

  17. March

    Participated in the FSI, GLH, and CCHub Data hackathons.

  18. February

    Attended the launch of the Google Hub in Lagos, Nigeria.

  19. February

    Attended the first Open Source Festival (OSCA) in Africa.

2019.

  1. November

    Qualified for the 2019 DSN Data Science Bootcamp.

  2. October

    Built a Django and TensorFlow web app to help medical practitioners diagnose patients faster.

  3. September

    Gave a presentation at POIC 2019 to an audience of 5,000+ attendees.

  4. September

    Joined the DSC Unilag Core Team for the 2019/2020 session.

  5. July

    Joined DSN through its Python and machine-learning class for pre-university students.

  6. June

    Attended my first tech hackathon.

  7. May

    Completed my first paid client project: a website built for ₦40,000 ~ $110.

  8. March

    Developed a strong interest in artificial intelligence through deep learning and the DSN IndabaX program.

2018.

  1. May - December

    Studied cryptocurrency trading, forex, backtesting systems, and MQL4-based trading automation.

  2. December

    Reported payment-processing vulnerabilities to Paystack and Flutterwave.

  3. November

    Trained my first machine-learning model with Azure ML Studio.

  4. June - July

    Graduated from high school at 16 and deepened my cybersecurity research.

  5. April

    Released the first version of HashDB, a lightweight NoSQL database built with Python.

  6. April

    Earned my first programming income by selling a Python-based trading automation tool.

  7. February

    Built PUMMP3r 1.0, an experimental cryptocurrency trading bot written in Python.

  8. January

    Started learning about cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.

2017.

  1. December

    Reported my first security vulnerability to Google, involving a 2FA bypass on Android.

  2. July - November

    Explored multiple programming languages, including Python, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, C, Java, and Swift.

  3. September

    Helped found the SoloLearn Nigeria community.

  4. August

    Created Greyhatcommunity, my first blog, and grew its Telegram channel to 10K+ members.

  5. August

    Built GhostScript, a beginner-friendly programming language inspired by Ruby and Python.

  6. June

    Installed and used Linux for the first time with Kali Linux.

  7. April

    Began exploring cybersecurity and penetration testing.

  8. February

    Started the Blender Artists community and created my first 3D model with Blender.

2016.

  1. November

    Built and launched my first PC game with C# and Unity3D.

  2. August

    Started learning web development with HTML and CSS through TheNewBoston tutorials.

  3. July

    Compiled my first Hello World program in C# using Visual Studio 2013.

  4. April

    Compiled my first Hello World program in C++ using Visual Studio 2010.

2015.

  1. March

    Wrote my first program with Windows Batch scripting.

2002.

  1. March

    Born in Nigeria.