Theme: Education
The African continent has a total of 700,000 software engineers. And did you know that more than half of them are saturated in five African countries of Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, and South Africa?(IFC/Google). The International Finance Corporation (IFC), projects that the African internet economy will be contributing nearly $180 billion to the overall economy by 2025.
Our guest this week is Mike B. Ndimurukundo, Andela’s Managing Director, who supports, leads and cheers a powerful team of software engineers in Andela Rwanda.
Andela has 1000+ software engineers that work as embedded members of over 200 tech companies across the world. In 2019, Andela trained 60,000 people on basic software engineering skills, to better position Africa as a center for tech related solutions.
Mike therefore shares his wealth of knowledge that he acquired managing software engineers in Africa and training 60,000 new ones. The conversation covers: professional skills required for a software engineer, how to leverage the internet, advantages of technical skills among others and lessons other non-technical disciplines can take advantage of.
With that said, how then can you get ready and actively participate in various sectors of the e-economy such as Fintech, Agritech, Venture capital and e-health? If you are intrigued by the internet and the power of being self taught, then this episode is right for you! Tune in and learn more.