Olatokunbo Ogunlade is an exceptional woman worthy of celebration and a special pick for the week. She is the epitome of determination, courage, and tenacity. Olatokunbo Ogunlade is a DevOps engineer who began her coding properly while nurturing her three-month-old child. You sef shock? Na only your mind dey keep you back if a nursing mother can, why can’t you? She had a bubbly childhood as she grew up in a large family. The typical Yoruba one who always has one thing or another to celebrate. Even though she had so many careers in mind as she grew, they all revolve around being successful. What a woman of vision! Olatokunbo Ogunlade has a background in programming such as javascript, python, and Linux skills that have enabled her to work on numerous successful projects.
She has worked with top organizations in Nigeria and offshore. The power of knowledge mastery! Olatokunbo Ogunlade made herself a living hero to the women folk. Imagine being locked in a room and you are the only one that can open the door. Did you say frustrating? Of course. Olatokunbo yearns to have more women on the tech board. Her passion for helping other women become self-independent made her join the SheCodeAfrica family. They have successfully helped more than 500 women to gain tech skills and live a financially stable life. Selflessness is a major attribute of a change maker! Have you had enough of the gist? I bet you want more. Satisfy your curiosity by tapping the read more button.
Olatokunbo Ogunlade- A glimpse into the Journey
Olatokunbo Ogunlade was clear about what she wanted from the start. This led her to study Computer Science at Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye. After working in the banking sector for more than two years, Olatokunbo knew she wasn’t there yet. She took the horse mantle and headed for a master’s degree in Information Technology at the National Open University of Nigeria. What more? It’s time to rest. You must be joking, that was just the beginning of magic. Olatokunbo became a self-taught coder by taking up a lot of courses that will help kickstart her career. She has an impressive stack of tools including Amazon web services, Google cloud, Bitbucket, MongoDB, Azure DevOps, and a host of others. Certifications are a great way to show your learning journey, Olatokunbo has two Microsoft certifications in Azure fundamentals.
Olatokunbo Ogunlade is a Performer
She has always performed well in all her job positions and this always earns her endorsements from team members and superiors. Na pesin wey sabi work dey get the endorsement, no be by mouth. Olatokunbo launched her tech career as a DevOps/Software Engineer at Venture Garden Group. Her three years plus of service were full of accomplishments as she was instrumental to the front-end development of numerous applications. Olatokunbo leveraged her skills to create, test, automate and diagnose the applications till her team got the desired results. She is a volunteer educational facilitator at Eduaid.
Additionally, Olatokunbo is a field expert volunteer(DevOps) at She Code Africa where she mentors and help female kickstart their DevOps/ Cloud journey. What do you expect from someone who lives by the quote “The essence of life is in the relationships and the deposits you make into people”. Apart from being a dev, she can handle customer service, social media, management, and financial services pretty well. The only one stopping you is you, face your fears!
Olatokunbo Ogunlade- Her View
Olatokunbo Ogunlade is an authority when it comes to tech talk. With a strong background in tech and years of expertise practice, her views hold water. She feels Innovating technology in Africa will change the way everything operates. This change will be positive and encourage cross-continent project collaboration. Olatokunbo asserts that the gender gap in tech can be bridged with more female representation. The representation will influence the way females view the tech field and change the narrative of “tech belongs to the men folk”. As a Lagosian, Olatokunbo is aware of how taxing getting affordable and decent housing in Lagos can be.
Tech makes life easy, right? What if the housing system has more tech impact than ever? It would be a dream come true for most people. Abi, who no like better thing! What a success story means to individuals differs. Olatokunbo’s story was how she landed an internship position as a software engineer in the seventh month of her self-learning journey. It was a surreal feeling for her. Was the experience all rosy? Olatokunbo was paired with another intern to work on a project and they encountered a conflicted merge. Trust her problem-solving instinct, she was bent on resolving it but the unexpected happened. She mistakenly erased all the changes her colleague has made. OMG, tech is not for the faint-hearted! The beautiful part of this experience was that it helped her solidify her knowledge of Git and version control. See? Challenges are signals of success!
When life throws you an egg, turn it into a face mask to reveal your beauty! Do you feel you can’t survive in the tech field? Try these magic portions: Never settle, get it done, and think deeper. In order to thrive, courage, commitment, and dedication should be every techies’ code of conduct.
Olatokunbo Ogundele- Final Gist
You fit don dey hear say techies no dey get time for their personal lives. I bet it’s not true, Olatokunbo has an amazing way she goes about her life in a balanced way. Olatokunbo creates a system around her she works and prioritizes. Guess what her hobby is? She loves dancing. An exercise and hobby combined. Olatokunbo resonates with our mission of promoting techies in Africa. Na pesin wey reasons us we go reason. LOL! Olatokunbo Ogunlade, keep sharing your wealth of knowledge with the universe. Techtrend Africa applauds you!