Quick show notes
- Our Guest: Obinna Ekwuno
- What he'd like for you to see: His Egghead videos
- His JAMstack Jams: Gatsby Cloud | Netlify
- His Musical Jam: KOTA the Friend | Fela Kuti
Transcript
Bryan Robinson 0:03
Hello, everyone, welcome to the next amazing episode of That's My Jamstack the podcast where we ask the age old question, what's your jam in the Jamstack? On today's episode, we talked with the amazing Obinna Ekwuno is a software engineer for Gatsby, a media developer expert, egghead instructor and an accessibility advocate.
Bryan Robinson 0:24
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Bryan Robinson 0:40
Obinna, thanks for thanks for being on the podcast with us today.
Obinna Ekwuno 0:44
Happy to be here.
Bryan Robinson 0:45
Awesome. So tell us a little about yourself. What do you do for work? What do you do for fun? That kind of thing?
Obinna Ekwuno 0:50
Oh, um, so I am a software engineer at GatsbyJS. I work on the DevRel team. I originally joined Gatsby to work on the learning team. Like building stuff with like documentation, writing some documentation and working on like plugin automating workflows and like all of those interesting stuff, trying to like make like documentation better for like people to, like, get more information out of out of Gatsby. But now I work on like the DevRel team, which is like really cool, because like, I still do some of the learning work, but like also, like more DevRel right now. Um, that's what I do for work.
Obinna Ekwuno 1:25
For fun, like, I like to write poetry. So I just, you know, write poems, hang out my friends. I I started getting into gaming a few months ago, my friend gave me his ps4 to like, try out some games. So yeah, that's that's what I do for fun right now.
Bryan Robinson 1:41
So what kind of poetry are you writing?
Obinna Ekwuno 1:44
I'm mostly like mostly melancholic poems like just, you know, I'm just writing I'm documenting like, life as a Nigerian boy growing up in Nigeria and you know, just just, you know, writing more for my myself, my future self done, like anybody really
Bryan Robinson 2:01
Awesome, I believe of everyone that we've, we've talked to you're the first person who said that poetry is what you do in your spare time. So that's, that's awesome.
Obinna Ekwuno 2:09
Thank you.
Bryan Robinson 2:10
And then with Gatsby, so you said you were originally on the learning team and the devrel team. That's been an interesting thing that I've heard about Gatsby, what's the main difference between, say, the Education team and and DevRel? Because I've always felt that those kind of overlap in some ways?
Obinna Ekwuno 2:26
Yeah. So like, there's not like so much difference is because when working out like when I was working on like, the learning team, because we're still trying to like flesh out the DevRel team at Gatsby, so learning was more like, you know, writing documentation, speaking, podcasts, all of those interests interfacin
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