Edidiong Asikpo

Edidiong Asikpo ( born October 6,1999) is a Nigerian software engineer and work at the Developer Relations team at Interswitch Group. She grew up in Lagos, the biggest city in Nigeria and the biggest tech hub in Africa. She is passionate about technical writing, contributing to open source organizations, and building developer communities. Quotes I figured repurposing my talks into articles will be a win-win situation because I’d get to reach two different audiences via speaking and writing.Asikpo on why she ventured into tech writing we write to educate others but we also write to improve our skills and also help our future self.Asikpo on the importance of technical writing Personally, I can’t remember being in a situation where I felt I was not treated as equal. However, I have seen it happen to other Women in Tech. Asikpo speaking on gender inequality in the TECH industry Whenever I feel like an imposter, I remind myself about the things I have achieved so far no matter how small it might have been. I tell myself that if I could do it before, I can as well do it again and even better this time. “Tech started to become cool because I thought I would start doing what the big boys at Facebook do.” I haven't just seen the impact of communities in my life but in the lives of so many people so it is very important. That is why I am motivated to pay it forward by building developer communities which would, in turn, help other people join the tech world and scale through faster. Asikpo on her motivation for building tech communities Being a developer advocate is just an opportunity to do a lot of things at the same time I get to write, to speak, to code, and meet amazing people.” I believe women who fought for equality centuries ago probably thought that women won't have to face certain biases in the 21st century, but that is not the case sadly. Asikpo on gender inequality “You might be a newbie in tech for 2 weeks but there is someone joining who is a newbie in tech for one week. So what you know in two weeks you can help the person joining with one week. So never feel like you don’t know enough or there is no one who is going to listen or you’re not good enough or something. Just start." Asikpo's word of advice to newbies External link Category: Living people Category:Women born in the 1990s