Stuff that did not make the CV
Fun Facts
Achievements that did not fit neatly into a career timeline but are worth mentioning anyway.
Turned a knockout tournament into a league
Sports Secretary, University of Lagos Computer Science Department · 2015
The HOD's Cup for football used single elimination: lose once and your class was done for the year. That always felt wrong, so I redesigned the whole thing into a league format. Every team got multiple matches, everyone actually got to play, and the best class won over a season instead of just surviving one lucky afternoon.
The tricky bit
The tricky bit was scheduling. Five academic levels, each with different lecture timetables, lab sessions, and exam periods, and only one pitch. I mapped everyone's free windows by hand, negotiated swaps when slots clashed, and built a fixture list that gave each class at least one match per week without forcing anyone to skip a lecture.
More games, more participation, and teams actually got better over the season instead of going home after one bad result. Not bad for an extracurricular.
Dropped 40kg without loose skin
Personal project · under 2 years
Went from 140kg to 100kg over 18 months. No surgery, no crash diets, no gimmicks. Just consistent calorie deficit and strength training.
The tricky bit
The hard part was avoiding loose skin. Rapid weight loss leaves excess skin behind, so I kept the pace steady at about 2kg per month, kept protein high, and prioritised strength training over cardio. The muscle gave the skin something to tighten against as the fat came off.
Kept it off for years. The discipline of showing up consistently whether you feel like it or not carries into everything else.
International Mathematics Olympiad — State Level
Faith Academy, CanaanLand Ota · Secondary school
Represented my high school at the state-level IMO selection. Spent months wrestling with algebra, combinatorics, geometry, and number theory problems designed to break your brain.
The tricky bit
These problems do not care about memorisation. They demand multi-step reasoning where you hold a whole chain of logic in your head without dropping a link. I worked through past papers until the patterns started clicking.
That structured problem-solving habit stuck. Every architecture call, every bug hunt, every system design still starts the same way: break it down, find the constraints, reason from first principles.
American Mathematics Competition — State Level
Faith Academy, CanaanLand Ota · Secondary school
Also represented my high school at state level in the AMC: 25 problems, 75 minutes, no calculator, no mercy.
The tricky bit
The clock was the real opponent. Every problem demanded a non-obvious insight, and if you went down the wrong path, there was no time to backtrack. You had to spot the pattern fast and execute cleanly the first time.
Taught me to think on my feet under a ticking clock. In production engineering, you rarely get unlimited time to decide. The ability to reason quickly and correctly under pressure started here.