I go by Reemy. Re Mi — notes two and three of the music scale, the part where the music leaves home and starts rising. Sometimes Dejitoo — heritage, family, the part of me that points back to Nigeria. Reemy × Deji is what this site is for: the part I'm living from right now, with the roots still attached.
Where I come from
Born and raised in NYC — lived in the Bronx, Queens, Manhattan, and Brooklyn at different points. Currently based in Newark, NJ. B.A. Computer Science with a minor in Artificial Intelligence from Case Western Reserve University. Five years enterprise software across federal contracting, logistics, healthcare technology, and medical imaging — EPA, FedEx, Hyland, MIM Software. The compressed version of that career, plus what I'm doing now, lives at /resume.
What I'm doing right now
I teach kids and I build for free. I coach an inclusive youth basketball program in Brooklyn — kids of all abilities, including kids with physical disabilities, playing together. I run a youth chess program called BeyondChess where the board is just the starting point for teaching cross-domain thinking. And outside the programs, I build software for people in my community — websites, apps, AI tools — then teach them how to do it themselves so the next time they don't need me.
This isn't a new pivot; it's a return to a 12-year thread of teaching tech to youth and community service that started with organizing free hackathons in high school, validated in college, and detour-tested by a five-year enterprise software career. Full picture lives at /teaching; what's active this week is at /now.
What I'm shaped by
Something shifted earlier this year. A long relationship ended. I stopped living for other people and started doing what I actually want. The line that locked it in: I'm not afraid. I just want to do anything. I'm tired of saying no.I don't chase. I provide value first. I don't believe the world works on money — I believe it works on giving value. So I teach whatever I can, help where I can, build for free, and try to live freely.
The other thing that shifted: my attention. I used to think I had ADHD. Now I just think differently. I can lock into one specific thing now — that's the part that wasn't there before. Time goes by but I choose what I put my attention on. The skill isn't length of focus, it's clean entry and clean exit.
How I think
I grow across ten things instead of one: software, philosophy, music, cooking, chess, comedy, massage, basketball, relationships, crypto. The point isn't mastering each one. The point is keeping all of them open enough that they can talk to each other. The same shape shows up in completely different places — basketball and chess and dance and rhythm and breathing all under one lens. Cross-domain pattern-matching is the actual skill; each domain is a training ground for it.
When I'm stuck on something, I go sideways instead of deeper. Most problems have already been solved in some other field with a different name. Find the shape, drop the vocabulary, look for the same shape somewhere unrelated. That's most of what I teach the kids.
What I believe right now
- Give more than you take.Pause before acting. Don't force. Everything else is a footnote.
- Start with the smallest piece. Always. Change propagates from the smallest thing you actually control outward — never from the biggest thing inward.
- Build with understanding, not speed.Frictionless building produces slop. The struggle is the part that teaches you. Skip the struggle, skip the understanding — and you can't direct what you don't understand.
- Honest pushback is love. Validation without challenge is a soft version of abandonment. The people who tell you the truth are the ones who care.
- We're more connected than we look. Each body is its own small spaceship moving around, but the differences between us are smaller than they feel from inside any one of them.
What I'm here to do
Help people remember they're already swimming in love. Build tools that help invisible people. Show — by example, not by sermon — that there's another way to be a body in the world.
How to talk to me
Email and the channels in the footer. I read everything. I respond when I have something real to say.