Mudasiru Rasheed Taiwo (Taiwrash) Live dossier: dnh.taiwrash.xyz

Minna, Niger State, Nigeria · Digital Nigeria Honours 2026 (Under 35)

I build infrastructure, and I train the people who run it, from Minna.

I’m a cloud and infrastructure engineer and a Google Developer Expert in Cloud. From 2021 to 2025 I was the only infrastructure engineer at KnowNow Africa, a production SaaS company, and in the same years I started the cloud native and Go communities in Minna, Nigeria.

In my NYSC year I went back to the Federal University of Technology, Minna, where I studied, and built a cloud lab so that a student’s laptop no longer decides who can do the lab work.

This page is the short version, hosted live at dnh.taiwrash.xyz. Each entry has a link to a public page you can check. Papers, event pages and speaker profiles list me as Rasheed Mudasiru.

Rasheed, standing at the front, addresses a full tiered lecture hall of students at FUT Minna
Teaching a full lecture hall in the Department of Software Engineering, FUT Minna, during my 2025/2026 service year.

In brief

How the work lines up with the criteria for Young Digital Leader of the Year. Each line links to the evidence below.

Impact for my career stage
As a student I grew GDSC FUT Minna from ~300 to 700+ members, was named to the MLH Top 50 and started Cloud Native Minna and Go Developers Network Minna. From 2021 to 2025 I ran production cloud infrastructure at KnowNow Africa (winner of the 2023 NCC ₦10M Hackathon), then returned to FUT Minna for NYSC to build SWEMLAB for 500+ students and train lecturers to run it without me. SWEMLAB · Student years
Innovation
agrepl replays AI agent runs offline (98.3% median latency reduction in my arXiv paper). Trigra brings GitOps to small clusters. Almag signs CI release decisions. W2P predicts crop planting windows for smallholder farmers. Two pull requests merged into CNCF’s ArgoCD. Build
Leadership
I founded and lead Cloud Native Minna (238 members, 23 events) and Go Developers Network Minna (355 members), delivered the opening keynote at GitHub Field Day Abuja, co-organised KCD Nigeria, and started InfraConf Africa through TheInfra (TAQ Limited). Gather
Measurable outcomes
Over 100,000 students and professionals encountered and trained across 5+ years of lectures, community workshops, bootcamps and conferences; 400+ students taught across five degree programmes at FUT Minna; 500+ reached on SWEMLAB across 5+ courses; 20 student teams shipped projects (16 deployed live); 8.4/10 average student recommendation score (n = 34). Teach · Speak
Relevance to Nigeria
I build for low bandwidth, old laptops and tight budgets, consult on FUT Minna’s Blockchain Master’s curriculum and departmental lab accreditation, speak at the 3MTT (3 Million Technical Talent) Niger State Fellow Conference, and train engineers across north-central, north-eastern and south-western Nigeria (Minna, Abuja, Lokoja, Egbe, Maiduguri, Ogbomoso, Oyo and Lagos). Speak
What comes next
InfraConf Africa runs online on 21 Nov 2026 and in person in Lagos in Nov 2027, alongside a student research group (IESRG) and ongoing research on resource-efficient AI infrastructure. Next

Build

Tools and research for teams that have little bandwidth, memory or budget.

  • Mar 2021 to Jul 2025
    Sole infrastructure engineer, KnowNow Africa Limited (NCC ₦10M Hackathon Winner)

    Ran the full AWS and GCP stack of a production SaaS product for four years, with no second engineer: Kubernetes (EKS and GKE), databases, CI/CD and monitoring. Cut release cycle time by 40% with GitHub Actions and Jenkins pipelines, managed the infrastructure in Terraform, and built the Prometheus and Grafana monitoring from scratch. In October 2023, our blockchain- and machine-learning-powered regulatory compliance and fraud-detection solution won first place (₦10 million prize, selected from 81 entries) in the Blockchain category of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Talent Hunt Research through Hackathon in Abuja.

    City Business News report (NCC Hackathon)/LinkedIn
  • Open source, Go, MIT licence
    agrepl

    Records the traffic between an AI agent and its LLM and API providers, then replays the run offline with no network calls. A failing run can be shared, and a teammate reproduces the same failure without paying for new API calls.

    Repository/Project site/Paper on arXiv
    The agrepl project site: Debug AI agents with deterministic replay, with a terminal showing agrepl record -- python agent.py
    The agrepl project site, with the record step in the terminal demo.
  • arXiv:2607.16200, sole author, Apr 2026
    Deterministic Replay for AI Agent Systems

    Replay fidelity of 1.0 and a median per-step latency reduction of 98.3% across five workloads and 250 replay instances. Follow-on work on continuous-integration checks for LLM output drift (Gating Nondeterminism: A Continuous Integration Check for LLM Output Drift) was accepted to the LiveWrite 2026 workshop at the 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2026, Munich).

    Read the arXiv paper
    arXiv abstract page for Deterministic Replay for AI Agent Systems by Rasheed Mudasiru, submitted 30 April 2026, cs.AI
    The arXiv abstract page: submitted 30 Apr 2026, filed under Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI).
  • Launched Jan 2026
    Trigra & upstream CNCF ArgoCD contributions

    A GitOps controller written in Go that talks to the Kubernetes API directly. It is aimed at small and edge clusters where heavier controllers use too much memory. Alongside building Trigra, I contributed two merged documentation pull requests to ArgoCD, the CNCF graduated GitOps project.

    Trigra repository/Product Hunt/ArgoCD PR #28347 (merged)/ArgoCD PR #28348 (merged)
    Trigra architecture: a developer pushes to GitHub repositories, a webhook reaches the Trigra controller, which applies manifests to Kubernetes and reports status back
    How Trigra works, from the repository README: push to Git, webhook to Trigra, manifests applied to Kubernetes.
  • CI security
    Almag

    A release gate for CI pipelines. It reads scanner output (SARIF), removes duplicate findings, applies a written policy and cryptographically signs its decision so an auditor can check it later.

    Almag site
    The Almag site: Safety rail for AI-accelerated development, with a live gate evaluator showing a blocked release decision
    The Almag site, with the live gate evaluator returning a blocked release decision.
  • Aug 2026 and open data
    Speech separation for forensic audio

    Co-authored a peer-reviewed paper, Deep learning-based multi-speaker separation and speech enhancement for forensic audio analysis, in the Nature Journal of Emerging Sciences, Technologies and Innovations (Vol. 10 No. 5, 2026). I also released the open 63-minute multi-speaker speech dataset behind it under the MIT licence on OpenSLR.

    Journal paper/Dataset on OpenSLR (SLR162)/Presentation slides
    Journal article page listing the authors, including Rasheed Taiwo Mudasiru, published 27 August 2026, with the DOI
    The article page, published 27 Aug 2026.
  • Applied AI prototypes
    W2P (When & What to Plant) and ShikkanAI

    W2P is an agricultural intelligence web app built for the BeOrchid Africa Developers Hackathon 2026 that combines LSTM rainfall-stability forecasting and Random Forest crop-suitability models to give smallholder farmers planting windows and germination risk scores. ShikkanAI is an AI-assisted MRI analysis prototype (brain, kidney and abdomen scans) that won a ₦2 million hackathon prize.

    W2P live app/ShikkanAI pitch deck
    W2P web application: Predict. Plant. Prosper. Advanced AI insights tailored for smallholder farmers
    The W2P web application at taiwrash.github.io/w2p.

Teach

At the Federal University of Technology, Minna, where I studied.

  • Nov 2025 to Nov 2026, NYSC
    Emerging Technology Lab Instructor & Departmental Support

    Lab instructor and teaching assistant in the Department of Software Engineering during my NYSC year. I taught the second-year course FUTM-SWE-221 and supported curriculum, research and accreditation work across the School of ICT.

    • Taught Introduction to Software Engineering to 400+ students across five programmes (Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information and Media Science, Cyber Security, and Information Technology) and graded 400+ course workbooks
    • Guided 80+ individual-project students through problem definition, PRDs and delivery, wrote 30+ project guides introducing real REST APIs, and judged 20+ student software projects
    • Delegated to the Department of Artificial Intelligence (Apr 2026) to set up its operational AI/ML lab (Anaconda, NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, Seaborn, SciPy and Jupyter) and validated it with an end-to-end Iris classification workflow
    • Provided technical consultancy for the Blockchain Master’s Programme at the Centre for Emerging Technologies, FUT Minna, and collaborated with faculty on research manuscripts
    • Supported Software Engineering accreditation lab verification, drafted the department’s 2025 Annual Report for the University Senate, prepared 100-level orientation materials for the HOD, drafted Application Packages course content, and built and donated two wooden storage cabinets for departmental records
    Service-year record/Research topic guide on Medium
    Lecturers gather around a student team's laptop during a project defence at FUT Minna
    Students demonstrate working software on laptops to a panel of lecturers

    FUTM-SWE-221 project defences: 20 student teams showed working software to a panel of lecturers.

  • 500+ students, 5+ courses
    SWEMLAB

    A cloud-native software engineering laboratory (Go/Gin backend, PostgreSQL, React/Vite frontend) that gives every student the same pre-configured browser environment via GitHub Codespaces, so a student’s laptop no longer decides who can do the lab work. SWEMLAB integrates the Gemini API to turn syllabus outlines into structured lab instructions, devcontainer definitions and GitHub Actions autograding workflows, and provisions all repositories under a centralized departmental GitHub organisation (software-engineering-futminna) with an automated fork-based migration pipeline that preserves commit history for accreditation review.

    Reached 500+ students across 5+ courses (Software Engineering, Individual Software Project I, Ethical Hacking and Computer Programming) and 3+ instructors. In the FUTM-SWE-221 cohort, 20 student teams (80 enrolled students) built and defended open-source systems, 16 of them deployed live.

    What 34 students said in the anonymous SWEMLAB impact survey (June to August 2026):

    • 8.4 out of 10 average likelihood of recommending SWEMLAB to another student; 31 of 34 gave 7 or higher (94% gave 6 or higher)
    • 76% rated the platform intuitive and easy to navigate (4 or 5 out of 5)
    • 7.3 out of 10 average confidence in applying software engineering and GitHub workflows
    • Student comments: “My favorite feature is the project collaboration where students can work together on one project” · “Helped me understand UML better from SEN 201” · “It taught me how to use GitHub”
    SWEMLAB/Student showcase (20 teams)/Survey & platform record/17 recorded project defences
    SWEMLAB control center with industry readiness score, completed activities and weekly SEN201 activities
    The SWEMLAB student control center for weekly SEN201 activities.
    SWEMLAB Collaborative Team Hub showing academic integrity rules and the NaijaWeather API project brief
    The SWEMLAB Collaborative Team Hub, showing academic integrity rules and one of the 21 real-world API project briefs (NaijaWeather).
    FUTM-SWE-221 student showcase: 20 student teams, 75+ enrolled students, 100% open source, 16 live deployments
    The public FUTM-SWE-221 student showcase.
  • Oct 2026
    Handing SWEMLAB over to staff

    Ran a hands-on SWEMLAB v2 workshop for lecturers in the department so the lab keeps running after my service year, and presented certificates of participation.

    Service-year record
    Department of Software Engineering staff holding certificates of participation after the SWEMLAB workshop
    Department of Software Engineering staff after the SWEMLAB workshop, FUT Minna, Oct 2026.
  • Degree & university awards
    B.Tech Computer Science, First Class Honours (FUT Minna)

    CGPA 4.63 out of 5.0 (4.82 final-year GPA, top 2% of cohort). Recipient of the Vice-Chancellor’s Innovation Award and the Dean’s Academic Award; final-year machine-learning and Ethereum-testnet fraud-detection thesis earned Grade A and external funding prior to submission.

    LinkedIn

Gather

Communities and events that put cloud native, Go and AI skills within reach in north-central Nigeria and beyond.

  • Since Jan 2022, 593 members across 2 groups
    Cloud Native Minna (238 members) & Go Developers Network Minna (355 members)

    Founded and lead both communities in Minna. Cloud Native Minna (an official Linux Foundation / CNCF community group) has run 23 public events since January 2022, from Linux automation and Kubernetes study sessions to Hacktoberfest and Dev Days Minna in 2026. Go Developers Network Minna brings together 355 local Golang developers on Meetup.

    Cloud Native Minna (238 members)/Go Developers Network Minna (355 members)
  • 9 Sep 2023
    Go and Kubernetes Day, Minna

    An in-person day at the NITDA Hub Hall, FUT Minna, co-hosted by Cloud Native Minna and Go Developers Network Minna. The event page lists me as both speaker and organiser.

    Event page
    Gallery from Go and Kubernetes Day Minna: talks in a large hall, a panel session and group photos of attendees
    Part of the photo gallery on the event page: talks, a panel and the group photo.
  • 9 Nov 2024 & 23 Nov 2024
    GitHub Field Day Abuja & GitHub Field Day Rwanda (Kigali)

    At GitHub Field Day Abuja (hosted by GitHub Education at Cafe One Abuja for student community leaders across north-central Nigeria), I delivered the opening keynote (Welcome & Keynote Speech by Rasheed) and led the closing evaluation session (Evaluating the Event Goals with Rasheed). Later that month, GitHub Education sponsored my participation as a GitHub Campus Expert delegate at GitHub Field Day Rwanda at AmaliTech in Kigali.

    GitHub Field Day Abuja schedule/Abuja photo album (274 photos)/Kigali photo album (300 photos)/Campus Expert profile
    GitHub Field Day Abuja stage letters and banners: An unconference for leaders of technical student communities
    Rasheed in his red GitHub Campus Expert hoodie with fellow delegates at AmaliTech in Kigali, Rwanda for GitHub Field Day Kigali

    GitHub Field Day Abuja (Nov 2024), and with fellow Campus Experts at AmaliTech in Kigali, Rwanda (Nov 2024).

  • 2024 to 2026, Minna & Oyo
    Build Open Source with AI, Supabase Launch Weeks (LW14 & LW15), VS Code Dev Day, AI on Terminal & L2B4B

    Organised and hosted hands-on community workshops connecting students and developers in Minna and Oyo State to open-source, cloud and AI tooling:

    • AI on Terminal: CLI for Developers (17 Jun 2026, School Library, FUT Minna)
    • GitHub Copilot Dev Days: Empowering Your Code with AI (22 Apr 2026, Minna)
    • VS Code Dev Day Minna 2025 (20 Sep 2025, FUT Minna)
    • Supabase Launch Week 15 (LW15) Minna Meetup (23 Jul 2025, FUT Minna)
    • Build Open Source with AI (30 Apr 2025, Window on America, FUT Minna — 103 attendees on Luma)
    • Supabase Launch Week 14 (LW14) Meetups in Minna (5 Apr 2025, NITDA IT Hub, FUT Minna) and Oyo (12 Apr 2025)
    • Learn to Build for Business (L2B4B) (28–31 Aug 2024, Window on America, FUT Minna)
    Build Open Source with AI (103 went)/Build Open Source album/AI on Terminal page/AI on Terminal album/Copilot Dev Days (Apr 2026)/Apr 2026 album (300 photos)/VS Code Dev Day page/VS Code Dev Day album/Supabase LW15 Minna album/LW14 Minna page/LW14 Minna album/LW14 Oyo album/L2B4B page/L2B4B album
    Rasheed holding a microphone and teaching a packed room of students on laptops during Build Open Source with AI at Window on America, FUT Minna
    Rasheed speaking at VS Code Dev Day Minna in front of the global event map, with a student's laptop showing 1.9 Mbps on Fast.com

    Hosting Build Open Source with AI (30 Apr 2025) and VS Code Dev Day Minna (20 Sep 2025).

    Rasheed presenting at his laptop beside the Supabase LW15 Meetup Minna Nigeria banner
    Group photo of participants at the Supabase LW14 Meetup inside the NITDA IT Hub hall at FUT Minna

    Leading the Supabase LW15 Meetup in Minna (Jul 2025), and the Supabase LW14 group at the NITDA IT Hub, FUT Minna (Apr 2025).

  • 6 Aug 2025
    CNCF Minna birthday event (#cTENcf)

    Organiser of the celebration of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s tenth anniversary at FUT Minna, Gidan Kwano.

    Event page/Photo album (44 photos)
    Large group photo of Cloud Native Minna members wearing CNCF party hats and holding the Cloud Native Computing Foundation 10th anniversary banner at FUT Minna
    Cloud Native Minna members celebrating the CNCF’s 10th anniversary (#cTENcf) at FUT Minna, 6 Aug 2025.
  • 28 Oct 2026
    GitHub Copilot Dev Days, Minna

    Hosted Dev Days Minna through Cloud Native Minna at FUT Minna, part of the global GitHub Copilot Dev Days series. Participants worked through a hands-on GitHub Copilot CLI track.

    Event page/Photo album (89 photos)
    Participants on laptops during Dev Days Minna at the Window on America centre, FUT Minna, with a terminal on the main screen
    Screen showing Mona Mayhem, the GitHub Copilot CLI track at Dev Days Minna

    Dev Days Minna, 28 Oct 2026: the room, and the Copilot CLI track on screen.

  • 14 Aug 2025
    Kubernetes Community Days Nigeria

    Co-organiser. 270 RSVPs on the event page.

    Event page
  • 21 Nov 2026, free and online
    InfraConf Africa

    I started InfraConf Africa, a conference for platform and infrastructure engineers. It has six tracks, including one on building for low-bandwidth, high-latency environments, and is run by TheInfra, a community initiative of my company, TAQ Limited. An in-person Lagos edition is planned for 20 Nov 2027.

    infraconf.africa/TheInfra
    InfraConf Africa homepage: Build the layer everything runs on. Virtual, 21 November 2026, free to attend
    InfraConf Africa 2026: virtual, 21 Nov 2026, free to attend.

Speak

Over the last 5+ years I have encountered and trained more than 100,000 students and professionals across university lectures, national and international conferences, community bootcamps and hands-on workshops across Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya and Rwanda. RSVP counts and photo albums are linked below.

  • DevFest, Oct 2026
    Maiduguri and Minna
    • DevFest Maiduguri, 24 Oct 2026, Borno State Hotel, 526 RSVPs
    • DevFest Minna, 16 to 17 Oct 2026 (Day 1 Hands-on Workshops & Day 2 Main Conference), Abdulkadir Kure University, 308 RSVPs
    DevFest Maiduguri 2026/Maiduguri album (203 photos)/DevFest Minna 2026/Minna Day 1 album/Minna Day 2 album
    Rasheed speaking at a lectern beside a DevFest Maiduguri 2026 banner
    Rasheed holding a microphone in front of the DevFest Minna banner

    On stage at DevFest Maiduguri 2026, and at DevFest Minna 2026.

  • Feb to Jul 2026, Minna
    Build with AI: I/O Extended Minna, Build with AI FUTMinna, AWS Student Community Day & IWD Cloud Minna

    Led hands-on AI and cloud sessions across Minna in 2026: Build with AI: I/O Extended Minna at the NITDA IT Hub hall, FUT Minna (17 Jul 2026, 170 RSVPs), Build With AI FUTMinna (Preseries) (Apr 2026), International Women’s Day (IWD) Cloud Minna (Apr 2026), and AWS Student Community Day Minna (Mar 2026).

    I/O Extended Minna page/I/O Extended album/BwAI FUTMinna 2026 album/AWS Student Community Day album (294 photos)/IWD Cloud Minna page/IWD Cloud Minna album
    Rasheed at the front of the room with a laptop during Build with AI: I/O Extended Minna
    A full computer hall of participants on laptops during the I/O Extended Minna workshop

    Running the session, and the room at the NITDA IT Hub hall, FUT Minna (17 Jul 2026).

    Rasheed in the front center with more than forty students at Build With AI FUTMinna 2026
    With student participants after the Build With AI FUTMinna 2026 session.
  • Aug 2025, Johannesburg & Lagos
    AWS Summit Johannesburg & Open Source Festival (OSCAFEST) Lagos

    At AWS Summit Johannesburg (20 Aug 2025, Sandton, South Africa), my talk Supercharge DevOps Automation with Amazon Bedrock and Go was selected as one of seven Community Lounge Dev Talks. At OSCAFEST 2025 in Lagos, I spoke on Building a Self-Managed Kubernetes Experience with kubectl-ai and joined the main-stage panel on open-source sustainability, cloud tooling and community development.

    AWS Summit Johannesburg slides/OSCAFEST kubectl-ai slides/Sessionize
    Rasheed speaking at the Community Lounge lectern at AWS Summit Johannesburg 2025
    Rasheed on stage at OSCAFEST Lagos in front of a screen showing Building a Self-Managed Kubernetes Experience with kubectl-ai

    Speaking in the Community Lounge at AWS Summit Johannesburg (Aug 2025), and on stage at OSCAFEST Lagos (Aug 2025).

    Rasheed speaking into a microphone on the main-stage panel at OSCAFEST 2025 in Lagos
    On the main-stage panel at Open Source Festival (OSCAFEST) 2025, Lagos.
  • DjangoCon & UbuCon Africa, Aug 2025
    DevOps Pipeline for Django Applications (Arusha, Tanzania)

    A 30-minute Main Hall talk in Arusha, Tanzania on how to automate, scale and secure Django deployments.

    Speaker page
    Rasheed speaking at the lectern in front of the DjangoCon Africa and UbuCon Africa backdrop in Arusha, Tanzania
    DjangoCon Africa 2025 speaker page for Rasheed Mudasiru, with the session DevOps Pipeline for Django Applications in the Main Hall

    On stage at DjangoCon & UbuCon Africa in Arusha, Tanzania, and the Pretalx speaker page.

  • DevFest, Nov to Dec 2025
    Minna, Lokoja, Maiduguri and Ogbomoso
    • DevFest Minna, 8 Nov 2025, 412 RSVPs
    • DevFest Lokoja, 21 Nov 2025, Kogi State
    • DevFest Maiduguri, 22 Nov 2025, 1,100 RSVPs
    • DevFest Ogbomoso, 6 Dec 2025, 720 RSVPs (Gemma: Inferences and building a MaaS; also ran the Dec 2024 workshop on building MaaS with Gemini & Gemma)
    DevFest Minna/Minna 2025 album/DevFest Lokoja 2025 album (301 photos)/DevFest Maiduguri/DevFest Ogbomoso/Ogbomoso 2025 album
    Rasheed speaking on stage at DevFest Ogbomoso 2025 beside a screen displaying Rasheed Mudasiru, GDE Cloud / DevOps Engineer
    DevFest Ogbomoso 2025 speaker card for Rasheed Mudasiru, Google Developer Expert, Cloud: Gemma: Inferences and building a MaaS

    Speaking on stage at DevFest Ogbomoso 2025, and the official speaker card.

    DevFest Minna 2025 event page on Google Developer Groups: 8 November 2025, 412 RSVPs
    The DevFest Minna 2025 event page (412 RSVPs).
  • 2024 to 2025, Minna, Egbe & Abuja
    Build with AI (Minna, FUTMinna & Egbe), Google I/O Extended (Abuja & Minna), IILHUB x CcHub, DDC Minna & Experience AI

    In Egbe, Kogi State, I spoke on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) on 17 May 2025. In Minna and Abuja I led hands-on workshops across Build with AI Minna (10 May 2025, 116 RSVPs, covering Google AI Studio, Firebase Studio and Gemini in DevOps workflows), Build With AI FUTMinna (26 Jul 2025), IILHUB x CcHub Innovation Challenge & Hackathon Minna (25 Jul 2025), Daytona Developers Club (DDC) Minna (22 Feb 2025), Experience AI (Oct 2024), GDG Abuja I/O Extended (27 Jul 2024) and Google I/O Extended Minna (22 Jun 2024).

    Build with AI Minna/BwAI Minna album/BwAI FUTMinna 2025 album/IILHUB x CcHub album/DDC Minna album/Experience AI album/GDG Abuja I/O ’24 album/Google I/O ’24 Minna album/RAG slides (GDG Egbe)/AI Studio slides/Gemini for DevOps slides
  • May 2024, Niger State
    3MTT (3 Million Technical Talent) Niger State Fellow Conference

    Invited speaker and panellist at the NITDA / IHS Towers 3MTT Niger State Fellow Conference in Minna, addressing fellows on software engineering, cloud infrastructure and building technical careers in Nigeria.

    3MTT Niger State Fellow Conference album (31 photos)
    Rasheed speaking into a microphone on the stage panel in front of the 3MTT Niger State Meetup banner
    Group photo of fellows and speakers beside the NITDA and IHS Towers 3MTT banner, with Rasheed in the front row on the right

    Speaking on the stage panel at the 3MTT Niger State Fellow Conference, and in the group photo with fellows (front row, second from right).

  • Gemini Hack FUTMinna
    Hackathon talk

    Spoke to the participants at Gemini Hack FUTMinna, a student hackathon at FUT Minna.

    Service-year record
    Rasheed speaking into a microphone at a table with a laptop at Gemini Hack FUTMinna
    Participants on laptops during Gemini Hack FUTMinna, with a countdown timer on the screen

    Speaking at Gemini Hack FUTMinna, and the room with the countdown on screen.

  • 2024 to 2025, Lagos & Nairobi
    GopherCon Africa, Africa DevOps Summit & NGM Conference
    • GopherCon Africa 2025 (Oct 2025, The Zone, Lagos): Go Systems, Concurrency & Microservices in Production
    • NGM Conference 4.0 (4 Oct 2025, Ikeja, Lagos): Smart Work, Not Hard Work: Harnessing AI Tools to Excel
    • Africa DevOps Summit 2024 (Oct 2024, Nairobi, Kenya): LLMs For Everything DevOps: Real-World Infrastructure
    • GopherCon Africa 2024 (Oct 2024, Nairobi, Kenya): Building a Local Go Community as a Student / Developer
    Sessionize
  • Microsoft DevConnect & TEDxTAU
    Microsoft Reactor Lagos (Feb 2025) & TEDxTAU (Nov 2023)

    Delivered a lightning talk on AI, cloud and open-source developer tools at Microsoft DevConnect, and spoke at TEDxTAU (Thomas Adewumi University, Kwara State, 8 Nov 2023) on The Danger of Premature Clarity: Engineering Trajectories.

    Microsoft Reactor event page/TEDxTAU page on TED.com

Recognition

  • Programmes & certifications

    Google Developer Expert in Cloud. AWS Community Builder. GitHub Campus Expert for more than five years. Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador (Beta). Linux Foundation Certified Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA). I mentor engineers across Africa through the Linux Foundation and Andela Africa Kubernetes programme.

    Google Developer Expert directory/GitHub Campus Expert profile/Sessionize bio/LinkedIn
    Sessionize speaker profile for Rasheed Mudasiru, DevOps/Platform Engineer, with a bio naming Google Developer Expert in Cloud
    Cloud Native Computing Foundation certificate recognizing Mudasiru Rasheed Taiwo as a Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA), 16 June 2025

    My Sessionize speaker profile, and my CNCF Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) certificate (credential ID redacted).

  • As a student, FUT Minna

    Led the Google Developer Student Club (GDSC) at FUT Minna and grew membership from ~300 to 700+ active students across two campuses, served as an AWS Educate Student Ambassador and FSI Campus Ambassador Lead (receiving the 2023 FSI Community Award), and became a GitHub Campus Expert. I started Cloud Native Minna and Go Developers Network Minna while still an undergraduate, and in 2023 I spoke at and organised Go and Kubernetes Day.

    Campus Expert profile/Go and Kubernetes Day
  • 2021 & 2023

    Named to the Major League Hacking (MLH) Global Top 50 (2021), and part of the KnowNow Limited team that won 1st place (₦10 million prize) in the Blockchain category of the 2023 Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Talent Hunt Research through Hackathon.

    MLH Top 50 profile/City Business News (NCC Hackathon)
    MLH Top 50 2021 card with Mudasiru Rasheed Taiwo's portrait
    My MLH Top 50 card, from top.mlh.io/2021.

Next

Plans that are under way, not finished work.

  • 21 Nov 2026, then 2027
    InfraConf Africa

    The first edition runs online on 21 Nov 2026. The second is planned in person in Lagos on 20 Nov 2027.

    infraconf.africa
  • Research
    Intelligence and Emerging Systems Research Group (IESRG)

    A student research group I’m building, and my own research on resource-efficient AI infrastructure, distributed systems and cloud-native systems that work under real-world limits.

    IESRG
  • FUT Minna
    SWEMLAB after my service year

    Department staff have been trained to run SWEMLAB, student projects live in a departmental GitHub organisation, and the platform stays in use for coming cohorts.

    SWEMLAB

Get in touch

To invite me to speak, review the work, or build something together, email me.

Email dev@taiwrash.xyz