Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 195 | Prosper Otemuyiwa - Creating Masters
Prosper is a full stack software engineer and writer who’s worked on biometric, health, financial and developer tools. He currently works with Auth0 as a Technical Writer. Prosper is a firm believer in open source and grooming the next generation of software engineers who will change the world. He is adept at technical writing and breaking down complex concepts to be easily understood at all levels. Since starting his blog, goodheads.io, in 2015, he has churned out over 150 articles on PHP, Laravel and Javascript which has been featured in several newsletters around the globe. Previously, Prosper worked at Andela where he helped build the PHP, Laravel and Core Dev curricula that are currently being used in Nigeria and Kenya. He also trained and mentored Andela fellows to become solid and exceptional problem solvers. He likes to call himself a developer evangelist, constantly and passionately inspiring developers across Africa to be world class! Prosper is also a Google Developer Expert
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Prosper Otemuyiwa
- - How Prosper became a Google Developer Expert
- - Prosper's engagement and quick rise to influence in software development communities in Africa and globally
- - Prosper's sources of inspiration
- - Taking action
- - Prosper, the inspiration, and the state of developer communities in Africa
- - The things that "light Prosper up"
- - Origins of Prosper's outlook and attitude
- - How Prosper got started in software
- - Prosper's story of failure - taking on too much and feeling despair and inadequacy
- - Prosper's success story - building cirriculum for training and being a champion for PHP and Laravel
- - Prosper's thoughts on having "made it"
- - How Prosper stays current with what he needs to know
- - Prosper's book recommendation
- - Prosper's causes of pain and suffering
- - The things about which Prosper likes to geek out
- - Prosper's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Prosper
Resources:
- Prosper on GitHub
- Prosper on Medium
- Prosper on Facebook
- Andela
- Google Developer Experts
- Linda Lawton on Developer On Fire
- John Resig - Write Code Every Day
- Prosper's Post:One way to Greatness: Pick Yourself
- Qunicy Larson on Developer On Fire
- Prosper's Post: Human beings are Open-Source Projects
- Chilezie R Unachukwu
- Ofure Ukpebor
- Ayeni Olusegun
- Okubanjo Funsho
- Joel Spolsky's Blog - Joel on Software
- Next.js
- Vue.js
- nuxt.js
- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind - Shunryu Suzuki
Prosper's book recommendation:
Prosper's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Take it one step at a time
- Every developer should have a niche - go deep on something
- Learn from other developers, including the brand new ones
