GitHub CEO Nat Friedman meets Developer Community in Nigeria

Nat Friedman is visiting top GitHub contribution country Nigeria to interact with developers.

Nat friedman, GitHub CEO and Microsoft Corporate Vice President in March announced he was heading to Nigeria and Ghana in a tweet. He shared “I’m going to Nigeria and Ghana for the first time later this year, and I’m interested in meeting local developers and entrepreneurs and learning about how GitHub can be of service.”

This week Nat has been spending time with the open source developer community in Nigeria. Meeting with developers of different ecosystems. Listening to the work they do and how they use developer tools and the GitHub platform.
He met GitHub campus experts and developers at an open source Mixer at the Microsoft Nigeria office. He’s also visited and spent time with developers of tech companies and co-creation hubs such as Andela, Paystack, CC hub, etc.

Nat had shared that Microsoft is broadening its horizons as a developer-centric company. That’s by rallying behind technologies like Linux, Git, node and Kubernetes. Microsoft, he says is remodeling its engineering culture after the example of open source projects. For the GitHub CEO and his visiting team, listening and learning from developers in the African tech space will allow them serve better.

GitHub will be looking to hire remote developers from Africa soon says the CEO.

GitHub CEO, Interacts with Nigerian developer community

It was awesome meeting @natfriedman yesterday.
We had a nice conversation about the Nigerian developer and looked for ways @github could improve its engagements and promote more collaboration and open source across ??.
It was really awesome #opensourcemixer @GitHubEducation pic.twitter.com/LvtJDjS7VB
— Git’sbane, the Sage of the North (@Sage_Godspeed) June 4, 2019

I just met @natfriedman (GitHub CEO) ??.
We talked about the open source developer community in Lagos and made him play my open source Android game! pic.twitter.com/YSB9eB8qz4
— Nenne ‘Adora’ Nwodo (@theadoranwodo) June 3, 2019

GitHub Mixer! Awesome meeting GitHub’s CEO @natfriedman ! Gave an inspiring talk on Open Source? Big ups to @Lieke2208 @GitHubEducation.
Had the opportunity to meet some awesome developers too ? ? pic.twitter.com/xtDh5j6VG6
— Mayokun (@mayokunadeniyi) June 3, 2019

We loved meeting with @github CEO @natfriedman and the rest of the GitHub team at a fireside chat at the Paystack office yesterday! Stoked for the future of developer relations in Africa! pic.twitter.com/GAzRoBmXTz
— Paystack (@paystack) June 5, 2019

@natfriedman graced us with his presence yesterday. We had a great time discussing about how GitHub could work better for us, how to drive engagement in the community and all. It was pretty awesome! He’s a great listener. Thanks a lot, Nat ??? pic.twitter.com/PpfqmpH4Bz
— Ademola (@_ooade) June 5, 2019

Earlier in the week, we welcomed @github‘s CEO @natfriedman and his team to the office. We gave him a tour of the building, and he also got the chance to interact with some of our team members to learn more about our work at #CcHUB. pic.twitter.com/jK9QUSyaoS
— Co-Creation Hub (@Cc_HUB) June 6, 2019

New Bit Sika employees? Just kidding. Met @natfriedman @omojumiller @github today and they gave me insights that might just turn Bit Sika’s ideas up on its head. Thanks. @danielgross @pioneerdotapp @YeleBademosi @BinanceLabs pic.twitter.com/KhdAjTpNrG
— Atsu from Bit Sika (@atsudavoh) June 6, 2019

Had a close door meeting with the CEO of Github, @natfriedman yesterday.
He is amazing and really interested in Nigeria’s tech ecosystem. He explained how we can leverage the amazing power of the tools GitHub has. It was awesome?.

PS: Finally found someone as tall as I am. ? pic.twitter.com/N1UwvdoYNr
— C:\Users\tayormi (@olu_tayormi) June 7, 2019

Earlier today, we had an amazing time hosting the CEO of @github, @natfriedman and his team at our EPIC Tower office. ?☺️
Follow this short thread for details of their visit. ⬇️#GitHubVisitsAndela #ThisIsAndela pic.twitter.com/VD7Wp8vvSF
— Andela Nigeria (@Andela_Nigeria) June 7, 2019