Nenne Adaora Nwodo (who fondly likes to be called Adora), is an Award-winning Software Engineer currently working at Microsoft where she builds cloud services and high-value experiences related to Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Reality.


You would typically find Adora doing Core Backend Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Security Compliance work. Adora is also a content creator. She has a blog and YouTube channel called AdoraHack where she posts about Software Engineering, Productivity & Career Growth.


Adora Nwodo 🇳🇬

In recent times, we have seen infrastructure automation play a very important role in building and shipping world-class applications fast. We have seen how tools like Docker, Ansible, Puppet & Terraform can be used to automate infrastructure deployments. 

In this session, I would talk about the concept of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and how I’m able to treat my infrastructure deployment code the same way I treat my source code by being able to test, version, and gracefully rollback my infrastructure deployment code. 

Are you a Software Engineer familiar with Typescript looking to create infrastructure for your applications without prior DevOps knowledge or are you a DevOps Engineer looking to try something new and straightforward when it comes to infrastructure automation? If you are, then this session is for you! 

I would talk about Pulumi: An IaC tool that allows me to provision infrastructure using familiar programming languages. This means that for me to automate my infrastructure, I can do it in a language I am already very comfortable with. I would also share my first experience with Pulumi, how it works and how you can use your Typescript knowledge for infrastructure deployment & management in Azure, AWS, and Kubernetes easily.

Typescript for Infrastructure Engineering

Software Engineer at Microsoft

Daniel Madalitso Phiri is a Developer Advocate and Community Builder with interests in creating experiences powered by technology, of course besides his almost unhealthy obsession with music.

Daniel Madalitso Phiri 🇿🇲

In this talk, I'll get into headless systems and how they are changing the way we build for the web. We'll look at solutions being enabled and benefits as well as predictions for what might come next.

Headless CMS Approach

Developer Advocate at Strapi

Shodipo Ayomide is a Developer Relations Manager at Stack Overflow with 9 years of experience and a track record in web & mobile applications development, community management, and product design on a global scale. And is based in Lagos, Nigeria. Giving talks/workshops at developer conferences around the globe at React Atlanta, FutureSync Conference, VueJS Amsterdam, VueJS Toronto, APIDAYS Hong Kong, Frontend Love Conference Amsterdam among many, he is also one of the organizers of the Developer Circles Lagos from Facebook, unStack Africa, Open-Source Community Africa, NaijaHacks Hackathon, and various other communities empowering Africa and the world. In addition, he is an Expert and Instructor at egghead.io Among his latest topics we can find: Progressive Imaging & Handling: React + WebPack, Fast and Furious with VueJS & WebPack, Getting up to Speed With Deno, Automating Workflow Processes Using GitHub Actions, Design from the Realm of Open-Source, Technical Principles to Developer Experience and others.

Shodipo Ayomide 🇳🇬

Collaboration and Communication at scale for Engineers

Developer Relations Manager at Stack Overflow

Ekene is a Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify. He's mainly focused on the Vue community and loves talking about the Jamstack. When he's not working, he likes spending time with friends over a Netflix movie

Ekene Eze 🇳🇬

When working with Vue 3’s Composition API, a common question that often comes up regarding reactive data is: “Should I use ref or reactive?”. If you have worked with the Composition API, you might agree that this is not surprising given the around how reactive and ref works. In this talk, I'll walk you through the technical differences between them and also try to answer "why" and "when" you should use them.

Reactivity WARS in the Composition API

Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify

A senior front-end engineer @octopodsio based in Cairo, Egypt. I created vee-validate for Vue.js and love working on open-source. When I'm not coding I'm playing competitive video games like Dota 2.

Abdelrahman Awad 🇪🇬

VeeValidate is the most popular validation library for Vue.js, and with the release of v4.0 for Vue.js 3 it brings much needed progressive enhancements to forms. We will be going through the common uses of form validation in frontend and cover that with vee-validate which includes: - Handling form submissions with JavaScript - Native full-page form submissions with your favorite backend framework - JSON-schema generated forms (feat: formvuelate) - Composing your own forms/fields with the composition API.

Progressive Form Validation with Vue.js and VeeValidate

Senior Frontend Engineer at Octopods

Bolaji is a Software Engineer, Content Creator, and Community Engineer who currently works as a Developer Advocate at Commerce Layer. He's passionate about sharing knowledge, documentation, web engineering, Jamstack, headless commerce, communities, and FOSS.

Bolaji Ayodeji 🇳🇬

Digital commerce has changed, and there is an increasing demand for faster and kite efficient solutions. More technologies are arising, more online stores are erupting, and customers make purchases on more devices. In this talk, Bolaji will introduce you to the challenges with traditional commerce, how headless commerce solves those challenges, and how Commerce Layer supercharges your digital experiences.

Headless Commerce done right, with Commerce Layer

Developer Advocate at CommerceLayer

Edidiong is a developer advocate with over 4 years of experience in building developer communities, technical writing, and web development.

She has given over 50+ talks at various tech conferences/meetups across the world and played a significant part in building 3 of the most impactful developer communities in Africa: Developer Circle Uyo from Facebook, Open Source Community Africa, and She Code Africa.

Edidiong makes coding/technical writing contributions to Open Source organizations like Wikimedia, VideoLAN, and Open Data Kit.

Due to her contributions to building the developer ecosystem in Africa, she was named an “Icon of Change” by Facebook. She was also the first and only technical writer from Africa to be accepted into the Google Season of Docs in 2019.

Edidiong Asikpo 🇳🇬

 JavaScript, ReactJS, GSAP, Scrollytelling

Scrollytelling can be complicated to implement on a website without the use of scroll driven animation libraries. These libraries provide a simple interface for creating different interactions on the scroll and improving user experience.

Over the years, there has been a significant improvement in scroll driven animation libraries that power scrollytelling in JavaScript. From the launch of SuperScrollorama by John Polacek in 2013 to ScrollMagic by Jan Paepke in 2014, and the recent announcement of ScrollTrigger by GSAP in 2020.

ScrollTrigger is the reinvention of scroll-driven animation but in a more suitable and user-friendly way, giving you the ability to control the flow of GSAP animations or any other thing while scrolling.

In this talk, attendees will learn about the GSAP ScrollTrigger plugin, how to use it to trigger animations on the scroll in React, and the use cases for it.

GSAP ScrollTrigger plugin in React

Developer Advocate at Hashnode

Obinna Ekwuno is a Software Engineer, currently working at Gatsby with a passion for teaching. He does so by creating visual courses through JAMstack training and Eggheadio. He also blogs about things he cares about and believes that wider conversations will save the world! Catch him nerding out about web accessibility and performance. He is passionate about the growth of the African tech ecosystem and believes in kindness as a service. Also, making French toast is his superpower.

Obinna Ekwuno 🇳🇬 

All your GraphQL Graphs can get along  

Software Engineer  at Gatsby

Kati Frantz is a software engineer and Auth0 Ambassador passionate about mentoring and training other developers. He’s published over 150 hours of training resources on Udemy with over 65 000 students. He’s worked with multiple teams and startups across the world to build powerful, modern, performant and scalable web applications. He is also a speaker and author of the Deploying Nodejs book. He is currently the core maintainer of the open-source headless CMS and API builder Tenseijs.

Kati Frantz 🇳🇬

The web is changing, and fast. The speed of your application is a huge deciding factor for your customers. Understanding the best practices to build performant web applications is an essential skill for any web developer. In this talk, you will learn simple, powerful tips and tricks that you can use in your real production sites to get perfect performance scores and improve core business metrics. You'll understand the best Web optimization strategies for data fetching, latency, Javascript, and more.

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