Coding for Video Marketing
By Ademusoyo Awosika-Olumo, Tech Lead at Wistia
Hello my name is Ademusoyo and I am Nigerian-American who mostly grew up in Ohio and Texas. I graduated with a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and landed my first job as a Software Engineer at Goldman Sachs in New York City.
I am a Senior Software Engineer II and Technical Lead at Wistia where I currently work on Third-Party Integrations. My team is focused on allowing our customers to send the leads that they capture through their video marketing efforts to their marketing platforms so that they can understand the full scope of their video marketing efforts.
In my work, I code every day! While some of my time is spent talking to different stakeholders (Product Managers, Designers, and other engineering teams), a bulk of my day job involves building new features and enhancements that will better the experience for our customers. I work in SQL, Ruby/Ruby on Rails, and JavaScript/React. Previously, I’ve worked in Go, PHP, Java, Angular, Python, and C.
If you’re an aspiring coder, my advice is to not lose your sense of curiosity. Working as a software engineer requires you to constantly learn and figure out new ways to solve problems that you may have never seen before. You may get stuck sometimes but don’t let that discourage you. Always look to see if there is some solution that you can come up with and keep adding to your knowledge toolkit. Over time, you’ll start to recognize key similarities that will make working as a Software Engineer a little easier than you would have thought before.
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