Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

This post expands on a recent podcast I did with Living Corporate outlining the story behind my career switch to software engineering. Quick Background I was born in Nigeria, but mostly grew up in Dallas, TX. I’m currently coming up on my two-year anniversary as a software engineer on December 19, 2018.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

But if you’re hiring from an African country (Nigeria, for example). Likewise, you probably have no idea what companies in Nigeria are analogous to Google. We test for software engineering fundamentals, and we use technology-specific tests. You also can’t rely on recruiters. Unbiased, credential-blind testing.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

And there’s another reason, also technology-driven, why boundaryless teams are possible now — the democratization of education for software engineers. You can attend Stanford from Nigeria or Oxford from El Salvador. Almost every university that matters now allows exclusively online education.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Michael Eidsaune , co-founder of Carely , a software platform that facilitates communication among families caring for sick or elderly relatives. Jeremy Johnson.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Michael Eidsaune , co-founder of Carely , a software platform that facilitates communication among families caring for sick or elderly relatives. Jeremy Johnson.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

“You Don’t Need Rockstar Engineers” with Dan Murrel Jr and Karen White @ BigCommerce Once upon a time in computing, it was thought that in addition to junior and senior software engineers, companies needed superhumans that could do the work of many: the mythical rockstar engineer. You don’t need rockstar engineers.

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