From Donkey To Unicorn: Ordinary To World Class

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1. From Donkey To Unicorn:
   Ordinary To World Class
   

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2. Speaker Bio
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   ❖ Software Developer
   ❖ Consultant at Auth0
   ❖ Open Sourcerer
   ❖ Self-Acclaimed Developer Evangelist
   ❖ Community Builder
   ❖ Jollof Rice Ambassador
   ❖ Homeless Man
   

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3. Community Evangelist
   ❖ forLoop Africa
   ❖ Laravel Nigeria
   ❖ Angular Nigeria
   

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4. Google Developer Expert
   @unicodeveloper
   

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5. Technical/ Technical?
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   1. How to be a great developer?
   2. How to be a 6-figure developer?
   3. How to be a Celebrity developer?
   

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6. Woot! Woot! Yaaaaaasss, let’s do it!
   

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7. Developing is a lot
   like cooking!
   

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8. Technical/ Technical?
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   There’s more to career advancement than
   solving tough programming challenges.
   

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9. From Donkey To Unicorn - Ordinary To World Class
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   Great code is fine, yet commanding better
   work and a higher salary depends on
   ensuring more people know who you are.
   

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10. Technical/ Technical?
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    Technical Skills are overrated. Are they?
    

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11. 1. Excellent Technical Skills
    Business Domain Knowledge is Critical….
    

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12. From Donkey To Unicorn - Ordinary To World Class
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    Think of your skills as a feature and make
    yourself an API through which you expose
    this feature to your team mates, client &
    community.
    

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13. 2. Run a Blog
    Thought Leadership….
    

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14. Coding & Writing? Where’s the time?
    

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15. 3. Contribute to
    Open Source
    

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16. Contribute To Open Source? Man, Ina bukatar yin kudi!!!
    

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17. 4. Eye on the Shiny new stuff,
    hands on the practical.
    

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18. Fura.js? Seems cool but I’m deep with React, Ka Wayi!
    

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19. 5. Be flexible in your hold on
    knowledge.
    

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20. Be Flexible? LOOOOL..I know this sh*t, Don’t tell me nonsense
    

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21. 6. Soft skills are underrated
    amongst developers. Change
    the status quo!
    

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22. Soft Skills? Why? Coding is hard enough!
    

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23. 6. Know thy tools as a
    craftsman
    Simple tools for complex problems put a shine on the developer.
    

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24. Know thy tools like a Boss? Sublime? Master it!
    

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25. 7. Become an authority on a
    subject or domain area.
    Thought Leadership….
    

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26. An Authority? How? What should I do?
    

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27. 8. Follow great developers &
    soak yourself in Engineering
    blogs.
    

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28. Follow those who have created greatness before you!
    

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29. From Donkey To Unicorn - Resources
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    ❖ Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
    ❖ Responding to change over following a plan
    ❖ Working Software over comprehensive documentation
    Work Hard, But Be Smart!
    

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30. Big Boy Pants: World Class Developer - Resources
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    ❖ Software Architecture for Developers - Technical Leadership and
    the balance with agility by Simon Brown
    ❖ The Software Developer’s Manual by John Sonmez
    ❖ The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
    

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31. Thank you, guys!
    Now, go forth & be World
    Class!!!
    

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