
In today's episode we discuss how our Founder, Buki, pivoted her non-technical sales career into becoming a self- taught Software Engineer. We also touch on how she incorporated programming and music creation all under one coding platform and her experience breaking into the tech industry as a Black female creative.
Amongst the topics that we cover in this episode:
- How Buki did a complete 360 and pivoted her career path from one in sales and recruitment to being a full time Software Engineer
- How she harnessed her creative skills to build a coding platform which teaches its users how to programme Hip Hop sounds and synths
- How she leveraged her online Twitter presence to gain her first pre-seed investor
- The challenges she encountered breaking into a male-dominated industry as a Black female creative
- The different platforms she used to learn new coding languages as a novice
- Her experience being featured by the likes of Buzzfeed, The Guardian and BBC
- The over-sexualisation of the female form and how she utilises her artwork to combat this narrative