Tag Archives: Software Engineer

Anthony Atuoha on the silent problem no one in tech talks about

As a boy, Anthony Atuoha wanted to be a lawyer. Then he sat in front of a computer for the first time, and that was the end of his law career. “I felt like I had a connection with it,” he says. Today, Anthony is a Senior Mobile Software Engineer specialising in Flutter, a technical writer published on freeCodeCamp, an …

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Michelle Buchi Okonicha wants to build the future of technology

When Michelle Buchi Okonicha was little, she wanted to be the next Chimamanda. She dreamt about moving people through her writing. Today, she is an AI & Machine Learning Engineer, a Google Developer Expert, a Women Techmakers Ambassador, and the founder of Girls Like Me Dream Initiative, an initiative dedicated to ensuring that girls, regardless of background, can dream without …

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Solomon Eseme’s Blueprint for Building Backend Engineers of the Future

“There was no structured learning path. I had to learn backend engineering from different people.” Solomon Eseme’s entry into backend engineering was not smooth or straightforward. In his own words, it was messy. He learned HTML, CSS, and JavaScript from different courses, different instructors, and different teaching styles. Each teacher had their own method, language, and assumptions. Instead of giving …

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Olusegun Adeleke: The founder who heard a voice

At some point in the middle of the night, Olusegun Adeleke was walking down the stairs toward his bedroom, trying to force himself to sleep after hours of restlessness, when a thought arrived that didn’t feel like his own. It was the seed of PAAQ, which stands for Please Ask Any Question, a platform connecting knowledge seekers with verified experts …

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Precious Kolawole’s unlikely path to becoming a Machine Learning Engineer at Shopify

Precious had a clear plan: become like Ben Carson, the American neurosurgeon. She applied to study medicine at the University of Lagos, Obafemi Awolowo University, and the University of Ibadan. None of them took her. OAU offered her zoology instead. She negotiated her way into a physiotherapy programme and found she actually enjoyed it. Then COVID-19 hit, and everything stopped. …

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