Episodes

  • 32. Nyasha w/ Clint Mukarakate - How starting out a career in tech in Zim compares to starting one in the US

    32. Nyasha w/ Clint Mukarakate - How starting out a career in tech in Zim compares to starting one in the US
    Jun 25 2023
    Career in tech in Zim vs America 1:00 What does Clint do 2:00 Compare and contrast what’s it like starting a career in tech in Zim versus in the US 3:00 How long have we been in the tech industry 4:00 Clint getting involved in startups in late high school Co-founding projects Funding being the biggest problem 2 years after high school - went to HIT Being involved in developer communities in college 9:00 When Clint knew he wanted to get into computer science 12:50 Nyasha Studying MPC to keep options open Engineering is not construction work! 13:45 Getting into USAP which assisted me getting a scholarship at a top university, University of Pennsylvania 14:30 Deciding to study Electrical Engineering even though I knew I would probably go to work as a software engineer 17:00 Software engineering interviewing process being really tough Not committing to Leetcode 18:38 it’s ok if you don’t get what you were looking for. 20:00 My role at Morgan Stanley building ops for risk management Get good at working with data 28:00 Is the route of a career in tech more straightforward in the US 31:00 Why its still worth levelling up your skills 35:00 Remote work 38:00 Is the aspiration for Zim tech workers to get opportunities abroad - how can they reach their fullest potential within the country. 43:17 Issues living in America 54:00 The interesting side effect of being a developer in Zim 57:00 Rapid fire questions What’s been your favorite philosophy of life Don’t be scared to go after what you want
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • 31. Nyasha w/ Brandon T. Bande - Choosing the path of entrepreneurship as a developer

    31. Nyasha w/ Brandon T. Bande - Choosing the path of entrepreneurship as a developer
    Mar 7 2023
    Brandon 1:00 intro 2:30 How Brandon got into software development 13:13 Telecommunications at Midlands State University 15:00 Brandon is not looking for a job 19:23 Who is Brandon working with 22:00 What advice would you give someone who doesn’t know what to start building, what their startup should be based on? 25:00 Don’t build a solution no one will use 32:00 How do people get remote gigs Disappointing a client 36:00 Zimbabwean developers all around the world come together 41:00 Interest in space 45:00 Rapid fire
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    52 mins
  • 30. Taku rates working at Microsoft 9/10, talks black identity & invoking coding interest in minorities

    30. Taku rates working at Microsoft 9/10, talks black identity & invoking coding interest in minorities
    Feb 20 2023

    1:40 Who is Taku

    3:55 When did Taku move to North America

    4:28 Taku talks about the black experience in Canada

    5:37 Identity crisis as an African international student in a predominantly white city.

    9:12 The culture shock of having black people who don’t necessarily make you feel like you belong.

    10:26 Black boys who code Pre university kids Invoking the interest in them

    12:00 Why is it important for minorities to be involved in tech

    15:00 What’s it like working at Microsoft as a software engineer 9 out of 10 experience

    17:40 Tech layoffs

    18:50 What other plans does Taku have besides tech

    23:00 Taku explains some of his tweets NYC Patriarchy

    27:00 Patriarchal society ideals being confused with human nature

    33:00 Is Taku still listening to Tuku

    34:00 If Taku could build an app what would it be about?
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    39 mins
  • 29. From Unsatisfactory A-Levels to Successful Mobile App Development: Tinashe Muzondiwa's Journey

    29. From Unsatisfactory A-Levels to Successful Mobile App Development: Tinashe Muzondiwa's Journey
    Feb 5 2023
    1:00 Who is Tinashe Mzondiwa? 2:00 Tinashe is happy he failed his A Levels 6:40 Software Development being all about just solving a problem 7:00 Developing the Shona Ndebele SDA hymnal app 8:40 How to publish and market an app 10:39 How projects matter so much in software development. You can leverage the things you’ve built. 12:50 Society and parents are so hard on you when you get school wrong early on. 14:14 How did Tinashe go from missing the bar in A level to building and deploying a successful app on the App Store and Google play store. Being passionate and working hard. 19:00 Tonderai talks about what it was like working at Instacart versus Slack Feeling impostor syndrome working at Instacart. 22:00 Lessons learned moving from Southern Africa to Canada Chances of making it as an entrepreneur greater in North America. 24:00 The pressure of coming into a senior developer role without ever having worked in the country or having done an internship Answering Frequently Asked Software Developer Questions: 25:00 Best programming language - depends on the problem you have. It’s just a tool 26:00 What is the best way to stay up to date with software engineering trends - Follow engineers you aspire to be like and see what they’re tweeting, what’s important to them 27:00 What’s changed in the software engineering industry since you started 29:00 What’s the job outlook for software engineers? 32:00 What Tinashe misses most about Zimbabwe? It has to do with supermarkets 33:00 How to reach Tinashe? 34:00 Tinashe gives a shoutout to 3 people dead or alive 34:40 Advice for someone with impostor syndrome as a developer There are free courses online to get started. Just be passionate
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    36 mins
  • 28. Audrey's Journey to Software Development: Overcoming Self-Doubt, Building Confidence.

    28. Audrey's Journey to Software Development: Overcoming Self-Doubt, Building Confidence.
    Jan 15 2023

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    3:00 how Audrey got into software development

    5:00 what were some of the challenges getting into the role of getting in software development.

    6:00 Being reserved. Feeling inferior.

    7:50 playing sport to boost confidence

    11:18 How do you build self confidence environment. Support. Supporting kids

    12:20 Believing in yourself 13:30 being a perfectionist

    16:00 how do you manage dealing with the outcomes when you’re a perfectionist.

    20:45 What we think of ChatGPT Concerns What she’s cases does it really solve

    23:00 what projects has Audrey worked on in tech.

    28:00 what kind of projects are you willing to take on?

    29:52 Where does Audrey get the design bug?

    32:00 Storytelling such a cool school

    32:30 Rapid fire questions

    33:00 worst programming language

    36:00 it’s tough in Zim right now. 40:00

    What is the origin story of Zim developers

    45:00 advice for anyone going through something

    49:00 Shouting out people!
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    33 mins
  • 27. Navigating the Software Development Industry in Zimbabwe with Isheanesu

    27. Navigating the Software Development Industry in Zimbabwe with Isheanesu
    Dec 17 2022

    1:00 how is Isheanesu doing in December

    2:00 how Isheanesu go into software development

    3:30 where did Isheanesu go to high school

    6:00 what does it take to make is as a developer in Africa.

    8:37 in a world where you could literally do anything why software

    10:15 what are you most proud of achieving all round and in the past 6 months

    12:25 what is the attitude towards Software Engineering. What’s the gap? You don’t have to be a mathematical genius to be a good programmer.

    14:49 How is the software development community in Zimbabwe

    18:00 Explain that tweet

    20:00 being a founder in Zimbabwe is a game set to extra hard

    25:00 it’s not gonna be

    27:00 what would Isheanesu do if there was no software Write make music or act

    31:00I’m really disappointed

    32:00 zimbabwean youth have few role models
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    36 mins
  • 26. Nyasha w/ Ruvimbo Mambinge: Businesses are underutilizing data to make decisions/profit | Where are the girls in tech?

    26. Nyasha w/ Ruvimbo Mambinge: Businesses are underutilizing data to make decisions/profit | Where are the girls in tech?
    Dec 4 2022

    New episode on the Zim tech scene with Ruvimbo Mambinge! Ruvimbo is a dev + data scientist & friend (: 1:00Who is Ruvimbo? 2:32 How did you decide to get into data analytics and tech in general? 4:00 Being very few girls in tech 4:40 Belonging in tech as a woman 6:00 Focus on mastering a framework then learn others 8:25 when did you start learning computer science 10:00 General attitude towards computer science in Zim 11:00 People not understanding how a “simple” feature might still take time 12:00 People need the advantages of data science for a business. You can lose money from not making data driven decisions. 15:00 Empathy for software engineers 18:00 Blogging on tech Teaching to other people 20:00 How do you get a job in software engineering 24:00 What do you do when taking a break from coding 26:00 Go to karaoke song 26:50 favorite pizza topping favorite genre of film or tv 28:47 best music on the Zimbabwean scene 29:00 What else can you reach out to Ruvimbo for? 30:56 Advice for the Zimbabwean youth
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    33 mins
  • 25. Nyasha w/ George Chakama - Software Engineering in Zimbabwe

    25. Nyasha w/ George Chakama - Software Engineering in Zimbabwe
    Nov 18 2022

    1:32 Who is George Chakama? 2:50 What was your perception getting into software engineering versus what you know now? 6:00 Why did George drop out of university and go straight into the computer science industry. 8:30 What’s the process of trying to get a job as a developer in Zimbabwe? 13:00 People diverting from what they’ve studied in university 16:30 Why George is building a community of Zim developers 24:00 Any projects you’re working on right now? 27:00 Rapid fire questions 32:00 George’s message to the Zimbabwean youth Invest in IT The secret of getting ahead is to get started
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    35 mins