Privileged to speak at my Faculty Freshers’ Orientation today! 🎙️
My core message: High grades aren't just about hard work; they’re about understanding the basics and the intent behind the questions. Master the content, then master how your lecturer wants it delivered.
7 problems solved, ranked #1 locally 🇳🇬 and #124 globally out of thousands of participants. The grind is real and the results are showing! 💻
Proud to see that my efforts are finally paying and progress is more visible. 🌍
#Codeforces#CP#Coding#Div4#ProblemSolving
Back In Senior Secondary School. I was in this group where questions on concepts like Number Theory were regularly sent, most of the group members were in Uni. So I thought they were the norms.
I started learning dem rigorously, cause I found them actually fun
I can remember the first time I solved a question of the form "what is the last three digits of X^Y (a very large number)".
The joy in my heart 📈📈
"How in the world is this possible"
Fast forward to year 1, where I found out I won't be needing them ever.
My name is Ladipo Samuel, a software engineer and 11x hackathon winner currently exploring Developer Relations.
The past few months have been full of motion.
- Stepped into the role of Community Lead at @gdgoc_unilag .
- Strengthened my speaking through @TechpulseC75071 and Hult prize, and I’m currently training a bootcamp on pitching for both technical and non-technical opportunities.
- Spent more time sharpening my problem-solving skills and thinking deeper about system design and project structure.
- Got inaugurated as the Public Relation Officer at @NACOS_UNILAG where I’m working on creating opportunities in diverse fields computer science students are interested in @UnilagNigeria
- Built projects with clients and received solid feedback along the way.
I’ll be judging and mentoring at Devcon 2.0, and I’m open to opportunities in SWE & DevRel, community building, and technical speaking.
Excited for what’s ahead.
Privileged to speak at my Faculty Freshers’ Orientation today! 🎙️
My core message: High grades aren't just about hard work; they’re about understanding the basics and the intent behind the questions. Master the content, then master how your lecturer wants it delivered.
I applied.
They didn’t reply.
I forgot.
God didn’t 🥺
This morning, I got a notification that my app is now live on Apple Store.
Me? Apple??
A year ago, “Apple” felt like a word for people very far from my reality.
Today, I’m part of a global devs launching IOS apps ❤️
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✅Admitted into UNILAG for Computer Engineering in 2017.
✅I struggled financially and took on private tutoring and piano gigs outside school to keep up, working with the skill I had at the time.
✅I never had a bedspace from Year 1 to Year 4. I squatted, sleeping on floors, concrete, and chairs countless times. On good days, I slept on a bed that wasn’t in the best shape.
✅Towards the end of 2021, I sold things like paper and drawing instruments to raise 100k and got myself a laptop.
✅I got back to coding in 2022 after a break of 6 years and started Software Engineering.
✅In the same year, I applied to many big tech companies, interviewed with a few, but ended up being served the rejection plate all round (100+).
✅Particularly, I got rejected by Bloomberg in 2022 after the final round (it took about 2 months of interviewing) for a summer internship role. I took the feedback, worked on them, and trusted God.
✅In 2023, I interviewed with Bloomberg again, this time for a SWE Placement Role (to use as my SIWES / IT). Thankfully, from interviewing to getting an offer took only two weeks.
To be continued.
While others were hustling convocation rice at Unilag convocation ceremony 🎓, some of us were grinding hard 💪
Hard work pays always!
Officially promoted to Pupil on Codeforces! 🟢 Next stop: Specialist. 🚀📈
#Codeforces#CompetitiveProgramming#Growth#Coding#UniversityOfLagos