Talks and Presentations

Public Speaking, keynotes and mentorship sessions.

Web Performance as rocket science at CityJS Lagos 2022

Building applications for the web have evolved over the years, with new technologies and frameworks promising different things, browsers have also gotten smarter. Across board, we still prioritize creating a fast, seamless and accessible experience for users. This talk will be focused on simplifying some of the steps we can start practicing to optimize for performance in web applications.

October 22, 2022. Lagos, Nigeria.  Slides  Website
Reimagining Web Development in your Browser at Dev Innovation Summit - World Festival

Web development is a fast changing ecosystem with new technologies and libraries being created on the go. To stay on top of everything, we have to make it as easy and accessible as possible to experiment and use these technologies with little to no setup. In this talk, we'd be exploring the world of Browser-based IDEs and how they are changing the ecosystem - improving collaboration, streamlined experiences and preconfigured development environments.

August 4, 2022. Online Event.  Slides  Website
Reimagining Web Development in your Browser at Turing Community

Web development is a fast-changing ecosystem with new technologies and libraries created on the go. To stay on top of everything, we have to make it as easy as possible to experiment and use these technologies with little to no setup. In this talk, we would be exploring the world of browser-based IDEs and how they are changing the ecosystem - improving collaboration, streamlined experiences and preconfigured development environments.

July 5, 2022. Online Event.  Slides  Website
Supercharging your career with Social currency at Open Source Community Africa Festival 2022

A lot of people have been led to believe that social currency is about making noise on social media and less about doing good work. This talk would go over the spectrum of social currency as it spans across both our public and private lives. And how we can make the most of it through the work we do.

March 25, 2022. Lagos, Nigeria.  Slides  Website
Improving developer collaboration with CodeSandbox. at JSWorld Online Conference

Let's find out how to rapidly create real and working prototypes, bring ideas to life and leverage CodeSandbox for knowledge sharing and collaboration between developers and communities - all with a single link.

February 9, 2022. Online Event.  Slides  Website
Improving developer collaboration with CodeSandbox at Google DevFest Lagos 2021.

Let's find out how to rapidly create real and working prototypes, bring ideas to life and leverage CodeSandbox for knowledge sharing and collaboration between developers and communities - all with a single link.

December 3, 2021. Lagos, Nigeria.  Slides  Website
Keynote: Building for the world from Nigeria with Open Source. at Midwest PHP

Using a listing of open source projects built by Nigerians for the world, we take a dive into the current state of open source in Nigeria. This talk is going to go over some data insights that we can get from this list and what we can do to improve them: demographics of contributors, languages, types of projects and also the people actively building stuff. It’d also shed some light on areas that we need to take note of including inclusion in open source.

April 23, 2021. Online Event.  Slides  Website
Building for the world from Nigeria with Open Source. at GitHub Virtual Meetup Africa

Using a listing of open source projects built by Nigerians for the world, we take a dive into the current state of open source in Nigeria. This talk is going to go over some data insights that we can get from this list and what we can do to improve them: demographics of contributors, languages, types of projects and also the people actively building stuff. It’d also shed some light on areas that we need to take note of including inclusion in open source.

March 16, 2021. Online Event.  Slides  Website
A look into Open Source in Nigeria - Made in Nigeria Projects at Open Source Festival

Using a listing of open source projects built by Nigerians for the world over the years with hundreds of projects which provides an insight into the current state of open source in Nigeria, this talk is going to go over some data insights that we can get from this list and what we can do about it.

This talk would go over the demographics of contributors, languages, types of projects and also people actively building stuff. It’d also shed some light on areas that we need to take note of including inclusion in open source.

February 21, 2020. Lagos, Nigeria.  Slides  Website
Building REST APIs that don't suck for modern day SPAs at NomadPHP

Front end applications have become increasingly powerful over the years and there’s been a shift in the approach of application architecture. As more single page frontend applications are being built, there is even more reliance on an API to power the logic of the entire application.

This talk would cover the common practices, guidelines and tips to building a REST API that can be secure and easily accessible for Single Page Applications. We'd be going over using the right status codes, structure of endpoints and much more.

March 21, 2019. Webinar.  Slides  Website
Making Create React App your best Friend at React Summit.

October 20, 2018. Lagos, Nigeria.  Slides  Website
Making your first Code Contribution at Open Source Contribution <zero - Hero/>; Open Source Community Africa.

June 16, 2018. Lagos, Nigeria.  Slides 
Open source - An enabler for the next billion users at forLoop Lagos

September 30, 2017. Lagos, Nigeria.  Slides  Website
Building World Class Apps With Open Source - Gathered at Google Developer Group Lagos' Developer Conference.

July 28, 2017. Lagos, Nigeria.  Slides  Website
Gathered for Meetups - Open Source App at Google I/O Extended 2017 Lagos.

June 17, 2017. Lagos, Nigeria.  Slides  Website
Practical Approach To Contributing To Open Source at ForLoop Ibadan.

Kwara, Nigeria.  Slides 
Finding Your Place at Tech Square, ICS faculty, University of Ilorin.

Kwara, Nigeria.  Slides