Summary
Gino Osahon is a Developer Advocate and blockchain-focused technologist with 11 years of experience building developer programs, communities, and startups across Africa and globally. He combines hands-on engineering in Solidity, Rust, Java and Spring Boot with strategic roles as Co-Founder/CTO of LinkiSwap and current Developer Advocate at IOTA, shaping product roadmaps and developer experience. Gino has designed and run developer initiatives for organizations like IOV Labs, Google Developer Group partners, and the African Blockchain Centre for Developers, regularly turning community feedback into product improvements. He’s adept at running meetups, creating technical content, and mentoring cohorts—skills honed while managing innovation hubs and incubation portfolios. Notably, he bridges technical leadership and growth operations, moving projects from MVP to investor-ready stages while maintaining active coding and DevOps practice. Based in Abuja, he brings a pragmatic, community-first approach to scaling Web3 developer ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associate degree, Software Engineering (Java Technologies), Associate degree, Software Engineering (Java Technologies) at National Institute of Information Technology
English, edo