03 / A personal archive
The story.
2002 — 2023 / A living historyFirst 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.
- December
Designed Operation BattleGrid: Strategic Frontiers, an 11x11 chess variant with modified rules.
- December
Built GhostNet, a peer-to-peer decentralized communication protocol.
- December
Published my 2023 year in review.
- November
Visited Enugu and Nsukka, and spoke at Polygon Dev Conference.
- September
Closed a $90,000 raise for Trade Maven, above the original $30,000 target.
- August
Visited Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and Kigali, Rwanda.
- June
Spoke at Career Fest in Ilorin to 2,000+ attendees.
- May
Launched the MVP of Trade Maven on a live portfolio.
- April
Joined Status/Waku as a full-time Technical Writer.
- March
Revisited an earlier trading research project and began building its MVP.
- March
Joined the Stack Shift dWeb Fellowship Zeta cohort.
- February
Bought a Ford Edge Limited.
2022.
- December
Organized Garri Hangout 1.0, attracting 300+ attendees and ₦642,000 in sponsorships.
- December
Published my 2022 year in review.
- November
Took my first international trip and visited Nairobi, Kenya.
- November
Got my first car, a Hyundai Santa Fe.
- October
Spoke at five events on open source and Hacktoberfest.
- September
Took my first road trip and visited Asaba.
- July
Interviewed with the Grow Into Tech team.
- June
Took my first flight and visited Abuja.
- May
Sold my first NFT on Solana.
- April
Minted my first NFT, Los Muertos World.
- April
Sold my first NFT for 0.5 ETH.
- March
Joined Unstoppable Domains as a full-time Technical Writer.
- March
Purchased my first NFT domain from Unstoppable Domains.
- March
Spoke at Open Source Festival 2022.
- February
Won the Best Use of Payments Product category at the Stitchathon 2022 Hackathon.
2021.
- December
Published my 2021 year in review.
- November
Started my first full-time role at a US-based fintech and blockchain company.
- November
Spoke at DevFest Abeokuta.
- October
Received MongoDB swag for community contributions.
- September
Had a pull request merged into MongoDB's Go driver.
- September
Joined the DSC Unilag Core Team for the 2021/2022 session.
- August
Won the BoardRoom One Hackathon hosted by Unicorn.
- July
Won the SoLo Funds Hackathon hosted by Unicorn.
- June
Became a LogRocket author.
- April
Received Auth0's "Ambassador of the Month" award.
- March
Published an article on Git Tower.
- February
Featured on the Developer Chronicles podcast.
- February
Featured on the GEN-TECH podcast.
- February
Featured in the Fauna Community Spotlight for open-source contributions.
2020.
- December
Gave a talk on technical writing at DSC Federal Polytechnic Bida. Slides and recording are available here.
- December
Published my 2020 year in review.
- November
Spoke at a cybersecurity-focused DSC event.
- November
Became an Ambassador at PettySave, a Nigerian fintech focused on savings and investing.
- November
Signed my first paid technical-writing contract with Fauna.
- October
Helped Telos Blockchain set up an airdrop system that managed 35K+ users.
- October
Became an Auth0 Ambassador.
- September
Built AnimeHive, a Telegram bot for anime downloads, recommendations, and information.
- September
Joined the technical team at OtakuTV, one of Nigeria's largest anime communities.
- August
Built a cryptocurrency remittance prototype that processed $1,000 in volume during its first month.
- August
Joined the DSC Unilag Core Team for the 2020/2021 session.
- August
Created DevJobHub, a Telegram bot for developer job listings that reached 900+ users after launch.
- July
Spoke at FlaskCon, an international conference for the Flask community.
- June
Earned my first seven figures in NGN through software work.
- May
Launched animeX v2 with improved features.
- April
Published my first technical article on Hashnode.
- March
Participated in the FSI, GLH, and CCHub Data hackathons.
- February
Attended the launch of the Google Hub in Lagos, Nigeria.
- February
Attended the first Open Source Festival (OSCA) in Africa.
2019.
- November
Qualified for the 2019 DSN Data Science Bootcamp.
- October
Built a Django and TensorFlow web app to help medical practitioners diagnose patients faster.
- September
Gave a presentation at POIC 2019 to an audience of 5,000+ attendees.
- September
Joined the DSC Unilag Core Team for the 2019/2020 session.
- July
Joined DSN through its Python and machine-learning class for pre-university students.
- June
Attended my first tech hackathon.
- May
Completed my first paid client project: a website built for ₦40,000 ~ $110.
- March
Developed a strong interest in artificial intelligence through deep learning and the DSN IndabaX program.
2018.
- May - December
Studied cryptocurrency trading, forex, backtesting systems, and MQL4-based trading automation.
- December
Reported payment-processing vulnerabilities to Paystack and Flutterwave.
- November
Trained my first machine-learning model with Azure ML Studio.
- June - July
Graduated from high school at 16 and deepened my cybersecurity research.
- April
Released the first version of HashDB, a lightweight NoSQL database built with Python.
- April
Earned my first programming income by selling a Python-based trading automation tool.
- February
Built PUMMP3r 1.0, an experimental cryptocurrency trading bot written in Python.
- January
Started learning about cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.
2017.
- December
Reported my first security vulnerability to Google, involving a 2FA bypass on Android.
- July - November
Explored multiple programming languages, including Python, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, C, Java, and Swift.
- September
Helped found the SoloLearn Nigeria community.
- August
Created Greyhatcommunity, my first blog, and grew its Telegram channel to 10K+ members.
- August
Built GhostScript, a beginner-friendly programming language inspired by Ruby and Python.
- June
Installed and used Linux for the first time with Kali Linux.
- April
Began exploring cybersecurity and penetration testing.
- February
Started the Blender Artists community and created my first 3D model with Blender.
2016.
- November
Built and launched my first PC game with C# and Unity3D.
- August
Started learning web development with HTML and CSS through TheNewBoston tutorials.
- July
Compiled my first Hello World program in C# using Visual Studio 2013.
- April
Compiled my first Hello World program in C++ using Visual Studio 2010.
2015.
- March
Wrote my first program with Windows Batch scripting.
2002.
- March
Born in Nigeria.