Ada Nduka Oyom

Ada Nduka Oyom (born 4th,July,1995) is a Nigerian Software developer and Open source advocate who currently leads Developer relations at Interswitch group. She’s also the founder of She Code Africa and Open Source Community Africa where she’s focused on matters bothered around women in tech and Open Source respectively. She’s mostly known and often applauded for her efforts to bring more ladies into tech and bridge the gender gap. If you have met her at any tech event, you probably saw her surrounded by her “girls in tech” and smiling through it.

Quotes

• It all started with watching the movie “The Intern“, which sort of mirrored life at Google, i got fascinated by it and decided to take my love for gadgets a step further, I became an active member of the Google student club while in my 2nd year, attending designs and code classes / events.
  • Ada speaking on her inspiration for venturing into tech

• Interacting with developers who were levels ahead of me and keeping up with latest technologies only pushed me to want to know more. It’s been that way since then as i’m still learning and growing, everyday.
  • Ada speaking on how she developed her tech skills

• I believe can achieve whatever it is I set my mind to and that mantra has done a great deal in most of what i do today.

• I’m known as the go-getter, the one who’s always trying out new things, the one who pushes a little harder.
• I never let anything/situation derail me,⅚ if I can work hard and come this far in Software development without a B.Sc degree in Computer science, then I or anyone else can achieve whatever it is they set their mind to

• Set goals, work hard towards them, Achieve them.

• Being a woman in tech doesn’t just stop at bearing the title, the rest of the world is expectant to see what you can do, how far you can go, how resilient you can be, how smart your brains are and at every given opportunity, do not derail in letting them know your worth!

• You’re Smart, You’re Beautiful, You’re Intelligent! You’re a definition of Beauty and Brains.

Ada speaking to women who women who want to venture into tech during an interview

• The women in tech community in Nigeria and Africa still has a very long way to go, there’s so many potentials in girls, ladies and women here, once we acknowledge that we have to start from the grass-root up, it gets a lot easier having them embrace the ideology of W.I.T. I personally believe with the right support, initiatives and personnel, larger input can be gotten from the ladies.
  • Ada speaking about African women in tech
• “I know what communities have done for me personally. Communities have had a huge impact on my career growth.” — On why she founded She Code Africa.