I'm Dami. I grew up in Lagos and moved to Toronto for grad school, and have been there ever since.
Most of what I do sits at the intersection of three things: how systems work, how stories get told, and what happens to a place when the people writing about it aren't the people living in it.
That sounds abstract, but in practice it looks like me: building research operations infrastructure at a tech company, editing a publication, mentoring people, exploring my city through bicycles, gastrotourism and writing essays when something won't leave me alone.
I'm the UX Research Operations Lead at eBay.
Before that, I built research ops functions at Webflow, Replit, and PagerDuty.
I'm interested in research operations because it's a quietly powerful role: you shape the conditions under which knowledge gets made, which means you shape what an organization ends up believing about its users.
That matters more than people give it credit for.
I'm the founder and editor-in-chief of The Rapport, a publication thinking seriously about technology, culture, and systems across Africa and its diaspora.
I started it because I was tired of reading takes on African tech written by people who'd never lived through a NEPA outage or tried to send money home through three apps and a prayer. We're building it slowly and on purpose, in the tradition of publications that take ideas and editing seriously.
I also write personal essays at The Yam Diaries, paint when I have wall space and time, and serve on the technical team at my church.
I read, I paint sometimes, I'm slowly becoming a better cook, and I live in Toronto.