Earlier this year, we were honored to receive the 2016 Secretary of State’s Award for Corporate Excellence from Secretary Kerry at the annual ACE ceremony on January 5th. It was a momentous occasion for us, and a true testament to the amazing work our developers are producing for our partners on a daily basis. Last week, […]
On January 21st, I flew from Lagos, Nigeria, to Washington DC to pour into the streets with hundreds of thousands of women. It was exhilarating. I loved every second of it, every poster, every parent there with their children. I felt the strength in numbers that one can only feel out on the streets demonstrating […]
In case you missed it, Jeremy sat down with Harry Stebbings during a very special episode of Founders Friday to discuss fundraising, the future of work, and more. We’ve included an outline of the episode below, but be sure to listen to the full podcast audio here! In This Episode You Will Learn: 1.) […]
This past weekend, an Andela engineer from Nigeria named Celestine Omin made his first trip to the United States. He’s not what many in Silicon Valley think of when they imagine a stereotypical software engineer. Celestine — a tall, lanky 28-year-old Nigerian who just became a father — is a leading figure in the Lagos, […]
I know many people who think that you have to be excellent at something to be successful. I know some people that are successful simply because they are excellent at talking about themselves. Unfortunately, being good at something doesn’t make you successful, and being successful doesn’t make you good at something (although it can often […]
Each year Fast Company recognizes the companies putting in painstaking effort to advance their respective fields through new methods of design and innovation in their annual Most Innovative issue. This year, we are honored and excited to be named to that list of 2017’s Most Innovative Companies. Africa is the largest untapped talent pool in the world, […]
Outside of New York City and San Francisco, our largest market is Austin, TX. Not surprising considering the massive amount of technology growth the city has experienced over the last decade. With nine Andela developers visiting their Austin-based partners from Lagos, Nigeria, it only made sense to celebrate with drinks and a lively panel in […]
Designing for Human Transformation: Episode One A year and a half ago, we set out to design our world’s first immersive simulations program for software developers. We began by researching the elite simulations-based learning programs used by the special forces, surgeons, and astronauts. Today, we are innovating on the shoulders of giants. We are extending […]
A handover is the process of migrating resources and responsibility of a project from one team to another. It is one of the critical stages of any software development cycle. The way this process is carried out affects the project outcomes and therefore should be well planned and executed. Being software engineers, we spend […]
In 2017, Andela and Google piloted the Android Learning Community with a training program meant to empower the community by training participants in Android. Over 4,500 people applied within a 3-week period, and more than 2,500 completed an assessment of which 2,370 were selected to kick-off the program. The program combined Google’s community science, Andela’s […]
Andela Developers thrive on creating innovative solutions that make the world a better place. So, it made perfect sense for Andela to partner with UNICEF on its Wearables for Good Challenge, which brings together developers, designers and problem-solvers from around the world to build wearable devices that address social issues in the emerging world. […]
2016 was a year of milestones for us. We announced our Series B funding round led by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, added more than 50 new partners to the Andela family, and received more than 23,000 applications from aspiring Andela Developers. It’s no surprise that Andela Developers continued to make an impact far beyond […]
After being selected to join Andela, developers spend three months in Simulations, working on clones of real open-source projects. The Andela Learning team uses Simulations to level-up developers’ technical and soft skills, preparing them to build real software on teams around the world. The Simulations phase accomplishes this goal by placing Andela Developers in […]
The Future of Learning & Technology In June 2015 I said goodbye to life as I knew it and moved to Africa to build the future of learning and technology. I was living in Trenton, the small, destitute capital of New Jersey. For two abundant and harrowing years, I designed education programs at an […]
Stanley Ndagi is an Andela Developer based in Nairobi, Kenya. He’s currently a Data Engineer with Enigma, a New York-based startup that provides data discovery and analytics tools to help organizations make better decisions. “We are in the future,” says Enigma CEO and Co-founder Hicham Oudghiri. This “future” relies on the infinite volume of data […]
Andela’s Chief Information Officer, Lisbi Abraham, has spent the past 25 years as a leader in technology and operations, partnering with clients and bringing new products to market. He recently joined the team at recruiting software platform Lever for a webinar called “How to Win the Competition for Technical Talent.” In his talk, Lisbi shared […]
At a startup, time is your enemy. When your goal is to hit targets and grow as fast as possible, you don’t have time to build the wrong product. Enter the design sprint. Developed by GV, this five-day design framework gives teams an expedited way to validate ideas and address big challenges. We asked […]
“Pretty much everything I do, I see in Explore/Expand/Extract terms now,” says Kent Beck. The creator of extreme programming and one of the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto, Kent coaches developers at Facebook and has been a programmer for more than four decades. Yet earlier this year, he discovered a new approach […]
Last week on Wednesday, I had the opportunity to sit down and have a conversation with Kent Beck for over an hour. Kent Beck is an American software developer, the creator of extreme programming, the author of books like Test Driven Development By Example, and is currently a Technical Coach at Facebook. Our conversation […]
A few days ago, Indeed released the results of its recent survey of over 1,000 tech hiring managers and recruiters. Their findings mirror what we hear at Andela: Finding the right talent is a major challenge for tech companies, as a whopping 83% of hiring managers cite the technical talent shortage as detrimental to the success […]
We’re excited to share that Andela has been selected by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry as the recipient of the 2016 Secretary of State’s Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE). Established in 1999, ACE recognizes U.S. companies that are best representing American values in their business practices worldwide. ACE chose Andela because of our […]
Mbithe Nzomo is an Andela developer based in Nairobi, Kenya. Last week, she and fellow Andela developer Joan Ngatia hosted a Django Girls event at Andela’s Nairobi headquarters. We asked her to share a wrap-up of the event. When Joan Ngatia told me she was thinking of planning a Django Girls workshop in Nairobi, […]
“People who don’t believe in VR are people who haven’t experienced it,” says Andela developer Abdulmalik Abdulwahab. Abdulmalik’s team, LeVRn, won the Lagos Virtual Reality Hackathon on November 19. Organized by Imisi 3D, a virtual reality creation lab, the hackathon was the first of its kind on the African continent. Abdulmalik became interested in […]
“People who don’t believe in VR are people who haven’t experienced it,” says Andela developer Abdulmalik Abdulwahab. Abdulmalik’s team, LeVRn, won the Lagos Virtual Reality Hackathon on November 19. Organized by Imisi 3D, a virtual reality creation lab, the hackathon was the first of its kind on the African continent. Abdulmalik became interested in VR while playing with […]
Africa is going to be the next economic powerhouse. Africa’s momentum, combined with the current digital era, suggests that Africa could leapfrog all other continents by solving many of our problems with technology. But on our current path, this prosperous future is elusive. Right now, we just do not have the technical manpower to […]
Background “Microservices” is a buzzword that has been going around the tech space in recent times. We ultimately decided to migrate to a microservices architecture and want to share why we did it, how we did it, and what we learned along the way. Like most web applications, Andela’s systems started out as a […]
What’s the secret to scaling a successful product team? We asked Josh Wexler, former VP of Product and now Chief of Staff at Yieldmo, a GV-backed adtech startup, to share his thoughts. Below, learn how to build the high-performing team and structure needed to tackle an ambitious product roadmap – all while keeping an eye on […]
Growth markets represent 85% of the world’s population: a huge opportunity for developing new products and businesses. But to reach this audience, it’s essential for tech leaders to understand who the “next billion users” are — and how to design and build products for their specific use cases. We sat down with Derek Fears, […]
The success of distributed teams is a topic close to our hearts at Andela. For this installation of our CTO webinar series, we sat down with Tray Lewin, Chief Technology Officer at Connect, to talk about what goes into building a successful distributed tech team. Tray has built and led distributed teams as CTO of […]
On Wednesday, global political and business leaders came together in New York City at the U.S.-Africa Business Forum to discuss the role of innovation and technology as a platform for entrepreneurial growth in Africa. Co-hosted by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the U.S. Department of Commerce, the forum was attended by U.S. President Barack Obama and […]
Scott Carleton is Andela’s VP of Technology. On his fourth day at Andela, he joined a team of developers at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon. Here’s what happened: The team traveled a total of 25,000 miles for this. Two engineers flew from Nigeria, two other team members came from across the US. And me. The […]
Meet Tyler Kessler, CEO and Co-Founder of Lumogram. Lumogram is a tech company providing small-scope, high-impact design services — starting with animated logos that help boost business’ brand impression on digital marketing channels. This is a repost of Tyler’s article in Medium about how he is building Lumogram’s distributed engineering team out of St. Louis, Missouri — starting with Tobi, a full-stack developer from Andela. […]
Modes of Learning Framework Introduction Recently, I was doing some research on learning(how people learn, how the brain works etc) when I discovered “Leaders of Learning” edX course created by Harvard X, the online learning platform of the Harvard University The e-learning course, designed and facilitated by Professor Richard Elmore from the Harvard Graduate School […]
What is the secret to scaling your engineering team? Matrix management, according to John Pavley. John leads Viacom’s global media and technology services software engineering, and manages development teams across NYC, London, Berlin, Milan, and Warsaw. In the latest installment of Andela’s CTO webinar series, John answers two questions that are top-of-mind for engineering […]
When working with Remote Developers, “distributed” does NOT have to mean “difficult.” Andela’s trainers are working with the best and brightest to build the next generation of tech leaders—a whole new breed of remote developers. In doing so, they constantly have the chance to test and review new remote collaboration and productivity technologies as they become available. They’ve […]
When working with Remote Developers, “distributed” does NOT have to mean “difficult.” Andela’s trainers are working with the best and brightest to build the next generation of tech leaders—a whole new breed of remote developers. In doing so, they constantly have the chance to test and review new remote collaboration and productivity technologies as they become available. They’ve […]