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Ire Aderinokun
Nigerian front end developer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ire Aderinokun is a Nigerian front end developer and Google developer expert.[2][3][4] She is Nigeria's first female Google Developer Expert.[5][6][7][8]
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Early life and education
Ire is from Ogun state, Nigeria. She was born into the family of Tayo and Mrs. Olunfunlola Aderinokun.[9]
After her secondary school education in Nigeria she got a bachelor's degree in Experimental Psychology from University of Bristol. While pursuing her master's degree in law at University of Bristol, her interests for computer science made her take a design course at Codecademy.[10][11]
Ire is a self-taught frontend developer and user interface designer. She built her first website at the age of 13 as a fansite for Neopets where she had learned her first basic HTML codes.[12] Ire also runs a blog called bitsofcode, where she breaks down coding tips to other developers. She started the blog in 2015.[13]
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Career
Ire is a Google Developer Expert, specializing in the core front-end technologies HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.[7][14] Ire is also an author at techcabal.[15]
She organizes Frontstack, a conference for front-end engineering in Nigeria and started a small scholarship program to sponsor Nigerian women to take a Udacity Nanodegree in a technology-related field of their choice.[16][4] She is the co-founder, COO and VP Engineering of Helicarrier, which builds cryptocurrency infrastructure for Africa.[17]
Ire Aderinokun is one of the founding members of Feminist Coalition,[18] a group of young Nigerian women with the aim of promoting equality for women in Nigerian society.
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