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About
I'm Emmanuel Inengiye, a backend engineer based in Nigeria.
Who I am
I was born in Nigeria in the early 2000s, and I still stay there. As a kid, the one career that I remember liking was computer engineering. I was fascinated by people who typed into terminals with that hacker energy. That faded as I got older, replaced by a pull toward business; I wanted to start my own company and become a well-known CEO.
I started in the commercial class, got bored, and switched to science, thinking I'd enjoy it more. It didn't take long to realize medicine wasn't for me, I never really enjoyed biology and chamistry, but I loved maths and physics. I ended up studying Mechatronics Engineering, mostly because the name sounded sophisticated, not out of any real passion for it.
By my third year, after a conversation with a family friend, I found my way back to tech, this time through Go, which he recommended. It was one of the steepest hills I'd climbed; I had zero programming background and just couldn't get a hang of it. That setback slowed me down until final year, when a mobile app project for my final year project pushed me to learn JavaScript. It was my real eye-opener, the first language that actually made sense when I read it.
I built the app, it worked, and that feeling of creating something that actually ran hooked me. I went deeper, frontend for a while, then backend, and I've stayed on backend and infrastructure ever since. DevOps, IT, everything in and around that is what I enjoy more.
Outside of code, I watch football and read or watch technical and spiritual material
What I do
I am a software engineer, focused on backend, devops, IT and infrastructure
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Shipped projects
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Current roles
OSS
Contributor
What I hope to do
Keep going deeper into infrastructure and distributed systems.
Longer term, I want to build something in edtech and education, in essence to teach people the things i know and give others a good platform to learn and grow