Ajao Malik

Robotics-focused engineer with hands-on experience designing, building, and teaching embedded systems and robotics projects. Skilled in Arduino microcontroller programming, circuit design and simulation, and translating electronics theory into working hardware.

Proficient across the robotics build cycle: sensor and actuator integration, wireless communication, and the safe integration of Arduino systems with mains-voltage appliances. A B.Sc. holder in Applied Physics to this hardware engineering foundation, with a strong grasp of the mathematical and computational principles behind sensing, control, and automation. Experienced in Python programming and software engineering, giving a full-stack perspective on robotics systems, from embedded hardware to the software and data layer.

A structured communicator who has designed curricula and delivered project-based robotics training to learners from age 9 through college level, including coaching a student team to a first-place finish in a robotics competition. Comfortable working independently or guiding small teams through builds from concept to working demonstration.

Robotics Instructor at Eduterex (2025-09 – Present)

• Teach Arduino microcontroller programming and robotics to college students across multiple partner schools.
• Introduce students to Tinkercad for circuit simulation before progressing to physical microcontroller kits.
• Guide students through sensor and actuator programming, covering core concepts such as functions, loops, conditionals, variables, and data types.
• Lead students through progressively complex builds, including LED and buzzer systems, a traffic-light simulator, a siren system, an obstacle-detection system, and a servo-driven smart gate.
• Teach safe integration of Arduino systems with 220V mains appliances via relay modules, covering fundamental electrical wiring and connections.
• Designed and built Terexlab (), an online coding and robotics LMS platform, authoring the course curriculum – video lessons, quizzes, practical assignments, and certification exams, and onboarding 200+ students.

Remote Instructor at Private Coding and Robotics Instructor (2025-07 – 2026-08)

• Delivered one-on-one and small-group coding and robotics instruction remotely to students aged 9–15 across Nigeria and Canada via Google Meet.
• Taught Arduino microcontroller programming, circuit simulation in Tinkercad, and sensor/actuator integration, progressing students from simulated to physical hardware builds.
• Coached students through building a smart robot vehicle programmed to move in defined patterns, later enhanced with obstacle detection and Bluetooth remote control from a custom MIT App Inventor mobile app.
• Delivered a separate Python programming track for children aged 9–11, covering variables, data types, conditionals, loops, lists, dictionaries, functions, debugging, and exception handling through hands-on projects, including calculators, number games, a shopping-list manager, and a text-based adventure game.
• Organised the purchase and delivery of Arduino and robotic-car kits for remote students and conducted in-person check-in visits to verify hands-on progress within Lagos.
• Built an obstacle-avoidance robotic car as the capstone project for a virtual summer robotics cohort of students aged 10–15.

Robotics Instructor at Automachoice Systems (2023-08 – 2025-03)

• Taught coding and robotics to primary and college students across multiple schools and organisations on the Lagos mainland and island.
• Facilitated robotics builds including a smart house, an RC robotic car, a smart waste bin, a walking humanoid, obstacle-avoidance systems, and IoT systems.
• Taught Arduino microcontroller programming and circuit simulation in Tinkercad.
• Covered sensors (ultrasonic, LDR, temperature & humidity) and actuators (DC, stepper, and servo motors) for student projects.
• Delivered private, in-home coding and robotics training for children on both the mainland and the island.
• Organised end-of-term coding and robotics examinations and prepared a student team for a robotics competition, which placed first.

Project Lead & Robotics Tutor at Automation Community (AUTOMACOM), University of Lagos Chapter (2019 – 2024)

Progressed from member to executive committee member, serving as project lead and tutor from 2023.

• Taught new members Arduino programming, sensors, and actuators.
• Facilitated smart-home projects incorporating LED lighting, automated doors, and sound systems.
• Built and maintained the community website, publishing project write-ups and blog posts.

B.Sc. in Applied Physics – University of Lagos (2024)