In 2018, I committed to the #100DaysOfCode challenge, that’s when I found my words and I’ve been writing ever since. This year though, it was more about speaking. I joined Microsoft earlier this year and it seems to be the magic wand that opened the door. The weight of my…

My journey from a newbie to a full-time software engineer. — First and foremost, I give all glory to God and acknowledge that He alone has made all I am about to share, possible. Here’s my story. 2017 — “Hello World! — CS50” In the final semester of my freshman year as a computer engineering student, a few friends and I were gathered in a reading room…

“A protest is an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid” — Dictionary.com There are different forms of protests, from a peaceful demonstration to a full-blown riot and everything in-between… “A riot is a noisy, violent…

“Give a lazy (wo)man a hard task to do and s/he would find an easy way to do it” — Anonymous Think of this, a body of water naturally flows downhill and always through the part of least resistance yet it is one of the most dangerous elements in a…

It’s Monday morning on the 19th of November, 2018 and here I am, waiting in line to check into a program I did not register for and hence got no invite. Fast forward to about an hour later and I was in. I was drafted into the third of three…

“Hey, Egahi, I’ve been thinking of something, how about we build a Machine learning model that can recommend the right course of study for students at the university level?” — Guru King The statement above was the beginning of a collaboration that materialized into an entry at Figma X GitHub…

“Programming is the closest thing we have to a super power” — Anonymous Of a truth, the closest thing we have to magic incantations, or super powers is the ability to punch a bunch of keys on a computer’s keyboard and boom! …an app, a mega platform or a universal…

HASH CODE LIVE! On March 1st, 2018 at 6:30pm the competition went live! The problem statement was about assigning rides to a number of self driving vehicles. Cool right? It was 6 pages long!! 5mins into the the competition, a number of teams already had 10 points. It took us…