Matt A.

Andela is a global talent accelerator that produces world class developers and connects them with top employers. Backed by the founders of companies like Facebook, Ebay, and AOL, We have built one of the most selective academic experiences in the world, with an acceptance rate below 1%. In my role as a lead software engineer, I manage a team of software engineers in an agile environment. We follow software engineering principles, create and seek the best practices in the industry in order to create very useful apps to support Andela's business needs. I am responsible for overall planning, execution and success of complex technical projects, from working with the product owners conceptualising the product, to gathering requirements, designing and finally deploying to production. I do not take testing lightly and I am a big fan of automations and pipelining, which I bring into my daily work with my team.

Andela develops a corps of high quality technology talent across the African continent that will drive the current and future phases of tech-enabled growth around the world. As a technical trainer, I ran bootcamps, collected necessary data, experimented with various training techniques, while adopting external methods that work. I managed Android learning, developed the Android curriculum, and trained over 20 Android developers across Nigeria and Nairobi.