Bolaji Ayodeji bolajiayodeji

GitHub Campus Expert
  • Federal University Lokoja
  • Lokoja

Becoming an Expert

Becoming an Expert

How to complete the application to become a GitHub Campus Expert.

Becoming an Expert

Introduction

Introduction

An introduction to Campus Experts and campus communities.

Introduction

Inclusive Communities

Inclusive Communities

How to start creating inclusive communities on campus.

Inclusive Communities

Information Design

Information Design

How to design workshops, worksheets, and other learning experiences from first principles.

Information Design

Public Speaking

Public Speaking

How to speak publicly, from writing a talk to wowing an audience.

Public Speaking

Introduction to Git

Introduction to Git

Take your first steps with Git, versioning your files and collaborating with confidence.

Introduction to Git

Community Impact

Community Impact

Apply what you've learnt by making a plan for the future of your community.

Community Impact

About Bolaji

Bolaji is an innovative technology professional with progressive IT, web engineering, documentation, technical writing, open-source and developer relations experience in both for-profit startups and non-profit educational organizations. He’s passionate about sharing knowledge, documentation, web engineering, JAMstack, communities, and FOSS.

He loves helping others (especially tech newbies and junior developers), become better at what they do, grow above imposter syndrome, and build a growth mindset. He does this by creating technical content on his Blog, Newsletter, YouTube, and building supportive communities like Open Source Community Africa, Meta Developers Circle Lokoja, etc. He also speaks at technical events, and he’s open to more public speaking engagements.

Skills

html5
css3
bash
javascript
reactjs
nodejs
postgresql
graphql
gatsbyjs
foss
git
github
technical writing
public speaking
leadership
community building

Recent events

Open Source Festival 2022

An annual high profile event for student delegates, developers, designers, and corporate organizations on a large scale, featuring a series of talks, workshops, and awareness around open-sourced developer tools.

Conference

Lagos, Nigeria

Women of DevC Lokoja - IWD Celebration

To build upon the United Nation’s official International Women’s Day theme in 2020 “#EachforEqual” We will have an International Women’s Day event aimed at celebrating women in various roles in the tech space. We know that some women in the tech space are experts while some are just starting out but we want to celebrate and shine a light on all of them. The focus of this event is to celebrate women in various roles in the tech space and help others not in the space see reasons why they should and how they can get started.

Meetup

Lokoja, Nigeria

Give Back Weekend

We use a lot of open source tools, we have freely received and would want to give back to the community by contributing to the products we use. OSCA has decided to gather developers in a room to get the ball rolling on actually contributing to open source projects on GitHub ranging from documentation to code contributions.

Meetup

Lagos, Nigeria

Recent activity

Women of DevC Lokoja IWD Celebration 2020

Developer Circles from Facebook is a program designed to create locally organized communities for developers. These communities are meant to educate and provide a forum for discussion and knowledge sharing around topics that are top-of-mind for developers in a particular market.

Facebook Developer Circles Lokoja - Launch Event 2019

Developer Circles from Facebook is a program designed to create locally organized communities for developers. These communities are meant to educate and provide a forum for discussion and knowledge sharing around topics that are top-of-mind for developers in a particular market.

OSCALagos Give Back Weekend Recap.

Open Source Community Africa is a community for open-source lovers, enthusiasts, advocates and experts within and across Africa with the sole aim of increasing the rate of credible contributions by African software developers, designers, writers and everyone involved in the sphere of technology to open source projects both locally and globally, changing the perception of Africans from just the billion users to the NEXT BILLION CREATORS.