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@DaddyTwinzz Anyi enwero none

As an Igbo, reply if you understand this: Kedu ụdị ukwu osisi unu nwere n’ụlọ unu? Ọ bụ ukwu mango, ukwu ube, ukwu oroma, ukwu akị, ukwu ụdara, ka ọ bụ ukwu cashew?

@CyberJazza Congratulations

I just realized I never posted it here, but I broke into tech! I got my first IT job and it’ll be a month since I’ve started on the 9th. It took me 2 years, but I’ve finally did it! Hopefully I can continue to grow! #Breakintotech #healthcaretech #WomenInSTEM

@sheismattie No be lie 😂😂

You go think say you lose your spark till you tear better braids and lashes.

@KanikaTolver Congratulations!!!

Three years ago, I told my manager I was going all in on learning AI. Soon after, an opportunity came up to lead the development of a virtual agent a chatbot designed to support an entire department by handling self-service IT help desk requests and incidents. The goal was simple but powerful: give federal employees the ability to resolve issues on their own without submitting tickets, sending emails, or calling the help desk. My manager trusted me with that opportunity, and it changed everything. All I needed was one project one real chance to dive into conversational AI, natural language understanding, and the foundations of intelligent systems. I knew that if I could get that experience, it would open an entirely new path for me in AI. Today, I’m proud to be recognized among Black women leading in AI. This journey reinforced something important: sometimes you have to ask for the opportunity you want. Be clear about the career you’re building. Speak up about what you want to learn and the problems you want to solve. Advocate for yourself, and work with leadership to create your own blueprint. Your career is yours to design. Some of the greats made the list @techgirl1908 @iamKierraD @truly_AD I may have missed others, sorry. Checkout the full list: blackwomenleadingai.com

@minutesimal_ Aaah we don too suffer

Unverified users, fuck you!

@minutesimal_ Yes I heard you stole a template is it true ?😂😂

Last week, I gave my X payout to my man after using part of it to patronize a vendor in our community. Today, I just received my highest payout so far, and I’m also going to send him everything as soon as it comes in. Do you know why? Apart from the fact that he has been guiding everything I do here, when my previous account got suspended, he was the one who motivated me and told me to channel the pain into rebuilding. To top it all, he gifted me a one-year Premium subscription to boost my morale. Without him, there wouldn’t be Celebrity Vendor. I wouldn’t be here helping others either. So tell me, does he not deserve it?

@AnotherGalaxy7 Congratulations

My abstract submission got accepted , and I’ll be presenting at the African digital health summit 🤩 So excited

@adekoyaoyinda @_apex_divine I can't send a dm

@adekoyaoyinda @_apex_divine I am interested

They say a closed mouth is a closed destiny… so this is me speaking out . I’m currently looking for an accountability partner to practice aptitude test questions with If you’re also on this journey and serious about improving please help me I can’t do this alone 😭

@ossynoya Happy birthday

+1 🎂

@elvis_ci It would've convinced me I did a lot today and probably need to rest😂

@_Trishify_ Chap gpt will ask you if you'll like it to show you how to give up properly 😂

Omoo I quit before I fry my brain 🤦🏿‍♀️

@SymoneBeez 😂

I remember when I didn't like traveling, I was just broke 😂

@saniyafatma1278 Congratulations

shoutout to me in 5 years. i bet she’s doing amazing and i am rooting for her

Adulthood is funny as hell - some days you wake up feeling on top of the world, and other days… it’s like everything just hits at once.

Greatest motivation in acquiring wealth is to travel the world for me,the earth is too beautiful to live life in just one country alone

@TechBaeAsh Happy Birthday Ash

Another year wiser. 🎂🧡🎉

@Dum3bi Congratulations

npm run dad 🔁 Spawning new child process…
🥰 Compiling cuteness overload…
📤 Deploying to real world… ✅ Build successful! 😴Warning: 404! Sleep Not Found Our cutest little feature ever has been installed. Baby v1.0 arrived! Dad mode: fully activated. Time for some all-night debugging sessions!

I am biased towards backend and it’s because I see more opportunities there, especially since you want to compete globally. This is not about frontend vs backend which is better, but about where there are more opportunities which will in turn increase your chances. While I was researching for jobs with relocation support from my small apartment in Benin, Nigeria, I noticed a pattern. My primary source was LinkedIn. The majority of Nigerian engineers whose previous role was in a Nigerian company and current role in a company outside Nigeria were mostly in Europe. Netherlands and Germany seemed to have more numbers and it was in specific cities: Amsterdam, Berlin and Munich. I mean direct jobs, not masters degree to job pipeline or menial jobs in between. Most of these people were also backend engineers. 1 or 2 out of 10 were frontend engineers. Those with PM or UI/UX Designer titles mostly had to do a degree first. This is what I observed. Again LinkedIn was the primary source and I could be wrong. At the time, I was doing everything from react to react native, and like many other devs, I thought learning JS, Java, Python, Golang and their respective web frameworks and libraries meant I was making progress or growing. My research results showed I was wasting my time spreading myself too thin. Most of the Nigerian devs who relocated with a job were hired at companies using Python or Java. I had to let go of JS ecosystem entirely. Of course there are few jobs requiring Node JS, but I’d rather focus on what has worked the most for others with a similar profile. After a while, I decided on Berlin and looked at job postings for mid level engineer positions. I noted the reoccurring skills in the various postings, I also compared my profile to the Nigerians before me who relocated with a job offer. I noticed a huge difference in how they presented themselves on LinkedIn, few of them had their CV in their LinkedIn page and I saw that I did not have the experience they had. To make up for the experience, I started working on personal projects. I created a study plan to fill the gaps. For nearly two years, the earliest I went to bed was between 1 to 2am. The gaps I had were mainly in system design. The typical Nigerian startup engineering culture does not leave room for engineers to develop the intuition and experience to design systems. It’s usually the PM anchoring an unproductive meeting were backend and frontend engineers do back and forths and then with inputs from designers about a feature. The arguments are mostly about implementation details of what the 'payload' should look like. There’s rarely any technical direction or strategy to support the OKRs (that’s if the company even have one). This means opportunities for mentorship are limited since there’s no true technical lead. People just build features and fix bugs week in week out. So how do you even have real world experience about replication and database redundancy? It’s one thing to read about CAP theorem or even memorise it and another thing to have actual practical knowledge and supporting experience to talk about it in a technical interview. If you go through my posts from early 2022, you’ll notice I had a monthly dump where I completed at least one Udemy course or read one book every month. If I had to do it again, I’d study chapter 1-9 of Designing Data Intensive Applications and build a distributed key value store to get practical experience with LSM Trees. After that I’ll study the vol 1 and vol 2 of System Design Interview: An Insider's perspective. It took me more than a year to truly feel like I was actually mid level in Germany. I bought and read most of these books on my way to where I am now.