Polkadot Head Ambassador Application: Bekka

Dear Polkadot community,

I'm Ayomide Bajo(Bekka)(X) and this is my application for the Polkadot Head Ambassador position.

About me

As a developer, I started my journey into the Polkadot ecosystem by applying to the Polkadot Blockchain Academy and becoming a successful graduate in 2023. In the middle of 2023, I became an ambassador and ever since I’ve been contributing to the growth of Polkadot in Africa, writing articles on my blog about Polkadot and representing wherever i attend web3 events, like the one at devconnect Istanbul. I’m also a key contributor to Rust Nigeria, one of Africa's strongest Rust communities. Polkadot is built using substrate and substrate is built using Rust.

With the support of the African community, I created the official Twitter account for Polkadot Africa and I’m currently its manager. I have hosted a few Twitter(X) spaces since then which has brought warmth and growth to the community. I and other African ambassadors have been building Polkadot Africa.

Currently, I’m working as a technical writer at Polytope Labs. I’m a member of Chaos Dao and also part of H.E.R DAO’s executive team in Nigeria.

Personal achievements in the web3 space

Graduated from the Polkadot Blockchain Academy in 2023 in the Buenos Aires cohort.
Onboarded 250+ developers into the Rust Nigeria online community in less than a year.
I started the Polkadot Africa Twitter monthly spaces and we have had over 4 meetup events in different parts of Africa since I started building the community.
Got elected to be a steward lead in H.E.R DAO Nigeria.
Hosted the first meetup event in Lagos after almost 2 years.

Experience

Previously worked as frontend developer in tech and wrote frontend code for 3 years professionally
Picked up technical writing and became a technical writer at Draft.dev
Joined the Rust Nigeria ecosystem and grew to become one of its executives.
H.E.R DAO Nigeria Lead.
Ambassador at Polkadot and Technical ambassador at Phala network
Technical writer at Polytope Labs

Ecosystem achievements

I created the Polkadot Africa Twitter account and since then we’ve had the following growth since i started headlining the community for the past 8 months.

Community partnership with Rust Nigeria for the Twitter space.
Monthly Twitter(X) space hosting great minds and curious audiences.
The discord server now has some warmth and activity compared to before including the African channel in the global server.
The first meetup in Africa. Northern, Nigeria.
The second meetup was in Africa. Kampala, Uganda.
The third meetup. Lagos, Nigeria
Northern Nigeria meetup for the second time.
Northern Nigeria meetup but this time in another location.

This is just the beginning and we achieved these results with little resources and passionate teammates. I believe with more support from the global community, we will experience bigger growth!

Visions and goals

To keep this proposal brief, I created a document highlighting my visions, goals and the next steps for the African community

Conclusion

We know Polkadot has the tech. Polkadot powers Depin, AI, Bridges, and Oracles. It is also cheap, fast and great for developers who also want to experiment with advanced ideas on the blockchain.
With the help of the community, we can push this out there to Africans and the global community and achieve a community of innovators, community builders, developers, advocates and other different types of contributors.

Thank you for reading this far ✨

Warm regards,
Ayomide Bajo(Bekka)