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The One Where We Geek Out on Outreachy with Eromosele Akhigbe
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About our guest:
Eromosele David Akhigbe is a Developer Advocate at StepSecurity, where he combines technical expertise with a passion for making technology more accessible and understandable. He’s also an active contributor to the OpenTelemetry community. A proud first-class graduate of Mechanical Engineering from Landmark University and a Decagon-trained software engineer, Eromosele is a strong advocate for open-source software and is committed to projects that democratize access to tech.
He believes deeply in Africa’s potential to shape the future of technology and innovation. Outside of work, you’ll often find him playing lead guitar or engaging with communities that share his mission to uplift the African tech ecosystem.
Find our guest on:
Find us on:
- All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingout
- All of Adriana's social channels are on bento.me/adrianamvillela
Show notes:
- Outreachy
- Juraci Paixão Kröhling on Geeking Out
- Yuri Oliveira
- Adriana's blog posts on OpenTelemetry
- Henrik Rexed - IsItObservable
- Sematext
- VSCode: Convert Tabs to Spaces
- Adriana's KubeCon talk on the Target Allocator
- Eromosele's blog post on the OpenTelemetry Demo
- Marino Wijay on Geeking Out
- SIG Boba
- Contributing to OpenTelemetry
- KCD Ghana 2024
- KCD Nigeria 2022
- Apply to Outreachy
- OCaml
- Wikimedia
Transcript:
ADRIANA:
Hey, fellow geeks. Welcome to Geeking Out, the podcast about all geeky aspects of software delivery DevOps, Observability, reliability, and everything in between. I'm your host, Adriana Villela. Coming to you from Toronto, Canada. And geeking out with me today, I have Eromosele Akhigbe. Welcome, Eromosele!
EROMOSELE:
Thank you Adriana for this opportunity. It's so nice to be here.
ADRIANA:
And I'm so happy to have you on.
EROMOSELE:
Thank you so much, Adriana.
ADRIANA:
Okay. So, where are you calling from today?
EROMOSELE:
Yeah, I'm calling from Lagos, Nigeria. So Nigeria, for some of you that don't know, is in Africa, is located at the western part of Africa. So yeah, that's what I'm calling from.
ADRIANA:
That's so cool. That's awesome. It's interesting. I've had, two people from Morocco on my podcast, but when I had them, they weren't in Morocco. So you are my first, like, person from Africa who's living in Africa, on the podcast. This is super exc