Zimbabweans, What's Next‪?‬ Nyasha Zimunhu

Career in tech in Zim vs America
1:00 What does Clint do
2:00 Compare and contrast what’s it like starting a career in tech in Zim versus in the US
3:00 How long have we been in the tech industry
4:00 Clint getting involved in startups in late high school
Co-founding projects
Funding being the biggest problem
2 years after high school - went to HIT
Being involved in developer communities in college
9:00 When Clint knew he wanted to get into computer science
12:50 Nyasha
Studying MPC to keep options open
Engineering is not construction work!
13:45
Getting into USAP which assisted me getting a scholarship at a top university, University of Pennsylvania
14:30 Deciding to study Electrical Engineering even though I knew I would probably go to work as a software engineer
17:00 Software engineering interviewing process being really tough
Not committing to Leetcode
18:38 it’s ok if you don’t get what you were looking for.
20:00 My role at Morgan Stanley building ops for risk management
Get good at working with data
28:00 Is the route of a career in tech more straightforward in the US
31:00
Why its still worth levelling up your skills
35:00 Remote work
38:00 Is the aspiration for Zim tech workers to get opportunities abroad - how can they reach their fullest potential within the country.
43:17 Issues living in America
54:00 The interesting side effect of being a developer in Zim
57:00 Rapid fire questions
What’s been your favorite philosophy of life
Don’t be scared to go after what you want

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Brandon
1:00 intro
2:30 How Brandon got into software development
13:13 Telecommunications at Midlands State University
15:00 Brandon is not looking for a job
19:23 Who is Brandon working with
22:00 What advice would you give someone who doesn’t know what to start building, what their startup should be based on?
25:00 Don’t build a solution no one will use
32:00 How do people get remote gigs
Disappointing a client
36:00 Zimbabwean developers all around the world come together
41:00 Interest in space
45:00 Rapid fire

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1:40 Who is Taku 

3:55 When did Taku move to North America 

4:28 Taku talks about the black experience in Canada 

5:37 Identity crisis as an African international student in a predominantly white city. 

9:12 The culture shock of having black people who don’t necessarily make you feel like you belong. 

10:26 Black boys who code Pre university kids Invoking the interest in them 

12:00 Why is it important for minorities to be involved in tech 

15:00 What’s it like working at Microsoft as a software engineer  9 out of 10 experience 

17:40 Tech layoffs 

18:50 What other plans does Taku have besides tech 

23:00 Taku explains some of his tweets NYC Patriarchy 

27:00 Patriarchal society ideals being confused with human nature 

33:00 Is Taku still listening to Tuku 

34:00 If Taku could build an app what would it be about?


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1:00 Who is Tinashe Mzondiwa? 
2:00 Tinashe is happy he failed his A Levels 
6:40 Software Development being all about just solving a problem 
7:00 Developing the Shona Ndebele SDA hymnal app 
8:40 How to publish and market an app 
10:39 How projects matter so much in software development. You can leverage the things you’ve built. 
12:50 Society and parents are so hard on you when you get school wrong early on. 
14:14 How did Tinashe go from missing the bar in A level to building and deploying a successful app on the App Store and Google play store. Being passionate and working hard. 
19:00 Tonderai talks about what it was like working at Instacart versus Slack Feeling impostor syndrome working at Instacart. 
22:00 Lessons learned moving from Southern Africa to Canada Chances of making it as an entrepreneur greater in North America.
 24:00 The pressure of coming into a senior developer role without ever having worked in the country or having done an internship  Answering Frequently Asked Software Developer Questions: 
25:00 Best programming language - depends on the problem you have. It’s just a tool 
26:00 What is the best way to stay up to date with software engineering trends - Follow engineers you aspire to be like and see what they’re tweeting, what’s important to them 
27:00 What’s changed in the software engineering industry since you started 
29:00 What’s the job outlook for software engineers? 
32:00 What Tinashe misses most about Zimbabwe? It has to do with supermarkets 
33:00 How to reach Tinashe? 34:00 Tinashe gives a shoutout to 3 people dead or alive 
34:40 Advice for someone with impostor syndrome as a developer There are free courses online to get started. Just be passionate

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3:00 how Audrey got into software development 

 5:00 what were some of the challenges getting into the role of getting in software development.

 6:00 Being reserved. Feeling inferior. 

7:50 playing sport to boost confidence 

11:18 How do you build self confidence  environment. Support. Supporting kids 

12:20 Believing in yourself 13:30 being a perfectionist  

16:00 how do you manage dealing with the outcomes when you’re a perfectionist. 

20:45 What we think of ChatGPT Concerns What she’s cases does it really solve 

23:00 what projects has Audrey worked on in tech. 

28:00 what kind of projects are you willing to take on? 

29:52 Where does Audrey get the design bug? 

32:00 Storytelling such a cool school 

32:30 Rapid fire questions 

33:00 worst programming language 

36:00 it’s tough in Zim right now. 40:00 

What is the origin story of Zim developers 

45:00 advice for anyone going through something  

49:00 Shouting out people!


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1:00 how is Isheanesu doing in December 

2:00 how Isheanesu go into software development  

3:30 where did Isheanesu go to high school 

6:00 what does it take to make is as a developer in Africa. 

8:37 in a world where you could literally do anything why software

 10:15 what are you most proud of achieving all round and in the past 6 months 

12:25 what is the attitude towards Software Engineering. What’s the gap? You don’t have to be a mathematical genius to be a good programmer. 

14:49 How is the software development community in Zimbabwe  

18:00 Explain that tweet 

20:00 being a founder in Zimbabwe is a game set to extra hard 

25:00 it’s not gonna be  

27:00 what would Isheanesu do if there was no software Write make music or act  

31:00I’m really disappointed   

32:00 zimbabwean youth have few role models


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