Twitter Appoints Young Nigerian As Lead Software Engineer [PHOTO]

A young Nigerian man, Boluwatife Aiki-Raji has been appointed by one of the social media giants, Twitter as a Software Engineer.

Boluwatife who was born in Nigeria but studied at Howard University was offered a full-time position in the company.

He graduated from Olashore International School in Nigeria, attended a technical school for a year before headed for Howard University where he studied Computer Science.

Raji said that while he was at Howard, he was exposed to various career opportunities that any student would not think twice before jumping at the offer. He served as a Google EDGE participant in his freshman year and continued to move ahead.

In his first year, he had a friend at Twitter office who made him sell himself to the company and in no time he went through a rigorous interview process with the CEO Jack Dorsey and he got the job soon after.



Describing his stay at Howard University, Raji said: “I met two wonderful people at Howard who are now my roommates, Errol Grannum and Barry Harris, they along with his mentor, Emmanuel Ademuwagun and their interest in computer science spurred the change of my major.”

“Twitter is a wonderful company and I have met amazing people there. I love my team at Twitter and I feel right at home with them.

"I know the position at Twitter will give me an opportunity to help other computer science majors like myself sometime down the line. I am also happy because I believe I have made my parents proud.”

Congrats lad!

Source: Buzz.com