User:Adjoajo/sandu

Iddris Sandu is a Ghanaian Architectural technologist], design technological architect, tech consultant, software engineer, lecturer, and an entrepreneur. He was born in [[Accra, Ghana, and raised in Compton in Los Angeles, Califorina. He sees himself as a "cultural architect" and as an architect of life. He created the  world’s first smart retail store experience along with Nipsey Hussle. The store is called "The Marathon Store". He codes and creates algorithms.

Early Life
Sandu was born in Accra, Ghana. His family moved to the United States when he was 3 years old. He started learning and doing computer programming at the age of ten using a public library. At the age of 13 Sandu was an intern and worked on several project Google projects. One of the projects that he worked on was Google Plus. He created his first app at the age of 15, writing codes and app that made it easier for his classmates to find their classrooms. Sandu also advocated for STEM in the high school curriculum. He chose to not seek attending a higher education institution after high school. He decided to go into interning and consulting; companies such as Boeing, Twitter, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Uber, Snapchat, and Instagram. At the age of 19, Sandu was creating his own apps and other software.

Career
As a technological design consultant and engineer, he has consulted for consumer-driven products such as; Uber, Twitter, Snapchat. For Uber he created the software called Autonomous Collision Detection Interface. A software program that detects a driver's hand motion and position. Sandu to Uber, where he created software called Autonomous Collision Detection Interface to help detect a driver's hand motions and position.

Sandu is well read, and has studied Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Jony Ive, Marc Newson, Naoto Fukusawa, Frank Gehry, and Sou Fujimoto. He is versed in history, economics, and technological implications. He uses his knowledge and skills in using technology as a tool for empowerment.

He has partnered with Kanye West and Jaden Smith.

Quotes
"What's happening right now is we are all on Instagram, we are all on Facebook, Snapchat, all this tech giants, and we are letting them control the narrative of how our stories can be told".

"If we want to really tell our stories the way they need to be told, we should focus on pushing forward platforms that we create so we can tell our best narratives".

“Information is one of the highest forms of class. And that is what keeps people divided. You should be able to think on a higher level, instead of being strictly consumers. And people of colour in particular are more likely to be consumers than creators. It’s really hard to get out of poverty or to change the structure of economic power if you’re always going to be a consumer rather than creating. Shifting that narrative is what I’ve been trying to do. And thus far, it’s worked, it’s successful.”https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Inspiring-story-of-21-year-old-Ghanaian-tech-genius-behind-Uber-Instagram-and-Snapchat-712130#

Awards
At the age of 15 he was presented with the Presidential Scholar Award, by Barack Obama.