Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

Wambui Kinya is the Chief Strategy Officer at Andela-- a startup helping companies overcome tech talent shortages by delivering high performing distributed engineering teams that leverage some of Africa's finest coding talent. Wambui joined Andela after spending over eighteen years working within the professional services space (spanning digital, mobile marketing and technology consulting) in North America, Europe and Africa for companies such as ThoughtWorks (where she notably served as Group Managing Director, Pan-Africa and South America), Praekelt Consulting and IBM Global Business Services. In her current role, Wambui has been tasked with developing partnerships with top tech organizations across the continent and with spearheading Andela's tech leadership recruitment efforts. In this candid chat with Andile Masuku, taped at African Tech Summit Kigali 2018 (https://www.africatechsummit.com/kigali/) she unpacks Andela's distinctive approach to capitalising on the global gig economy trend and addresses some misconceptions that outsiders tend to have about how things work at one of Africa's most-publicised startups.

Topics covered in this episode:

• Building a blog with Pelican
• Notifiers
• Using Makefiles in Python projects
• Result of moving Python to Github
• Self-Deprecation Needs to Stop
• 5 speed improvements in Python 3.7
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/67

Recorded February 16, 2018

Topics

• SDPHP Meetup || February 21, 2018
• CakePHP - Build fast, grow solid | Get Involved
• GearBest USA: Anet A8 Desktop 3D Printer Prusa i3 DIY Kit EU PLUG-$200.83
• Critical Linux filesystem permissions are being changed by latest version · Issue #19883 · npm/npm
• Herzult/SimplePHPEasyPlus: A simple, pragmatic numeric operation api written in PHP. It does addition.
• Github Deprecates Anonymous Gist Creation
• Google Chrome takes aim at websites that still use unencrypted HTTP

Karabo Songo and Musa Kalenga are the savvy business minds behind FastGro-- the 100% black-owned investment firm which just acquired a 25.1% share of the independent agency, House of Brave (HOB). As part of the deal, Karabo has been appointed the business' Group CEO, while Musa has assumed the position of Chief Future Officer. In this conversation with Andile Masuku, Karabo and Musa share how they plan to go about applying platform thinking and leveraging technological innovation to thrive within an industry that's currently taking serious strain.

Topics covered in this episode:

• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in Python 3
• ScriptedForms
• MongoDB to add multi-document transactions and ACID
• Python packaging pitfalls
• Blogging principles
• pipenv is officially official
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/66

Bunmi Akinyemiju is Co-founder and CEO of Nigeria's Venture Garden Group-- a global technology firm which owns several fully-developed SaaS intellectual properties. Bunmi has over 16 years of entrepreneurial experience in high-tech sales, solutions development and management, and has so far led the development of over 20 proprietary technologies in multiple sectors globally. In this conversation with Andile Masuku, Bunmi unpacks the platform strategy driving Venture Garden's approach to incubating, funding and operating early-stage tech firms, and shares the rationale behind what is now the biggest African ICO to date-- Sure Gift's $7 million raise to launch the Sure Remit remittance platform.

Recorded February 16, 2018

Topics

• "friends"
• Elon Musk Space X
• MongoDB Drops ACID | MongoDB
• > One of the reasons I do think it is fair to compare PHP with the frameworks I mentioned is that…

So, we invited friends of the African Tech Roundup podcast to join us for drinks at the Kigali Marriott's Iriba Bar between 4:30 PM and 6:00 PM on Feb 13th, 2018-- the day before the Africa Tech Summit Kigali conference. And when the homies demanded an impromptu podcast session, we gladly obliged. Listen in to hear what was trending at the recent #ATRULive Meetup Kigali.