Diverse Perspectives Driving Change in NYC’s Tech Community
Last week, Christina Sass and John Kariuki sat down with WPIX11’s Tamsen Fadal to discuss how Andela is connecting African tech talent to NYC’s tech community. Currently, Andela counts 37 developers...
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Andela Developer Wins Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional Award
Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional or ‘MVP’ award is a coveted honor given to a few thousand global technology experts across the world on an annual basis. The award is not only based on a...
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Cent and Fiyin’s Dedication Gets a Payoff
Payoff, a 7 and a half year old financial wellness company that provides personal loans to pay off credit card debt, is one of our treasured partners. They’re also hot off a $67.4M funding round...
View ArticleGeeks On A Plane Visits Andela
Andela Lagos has gotten its fair share of high profile visitors in the past year, starting with Captain Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg) last summer, to the Grandfather of Extreme Programming, Kent Beck, and...
View ArticleThree Awesome Open Source Projects Built by Andelans
Andela Developers are not just technical experts. In order to be able to seamlessly deliver awesome work to clients around the world from our offices in Lagos and Nairobi, they need to hone a lot of...
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An Engineering Manager’s Guide to the Future of Work
Last month, Stack Overflow released its annual Developer Survey, which polled over 64,000 developers across the globe about their favorite technologies, coding habits and work preferences. One of the...
View ArticleNew Podcast: Building for the Next Billion
If there is one thing most people can agree on, it’s that podcasts are awesome. With that in mind, we are excited to announce the launch of Building for the Next Billion, Andela’s podcast discussing...
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Andela Gives Back to Local Communities with TeenCode Initiative
This is a guest post by Andela Developer, Gertrude Nyenyeshi. “Teaching in the Internet age means we must teach tomorrow’s skills today.” – Jennifer Fleming TeenCode Africa is an initiative started...
View ArticleAndela Developer Among Tech Experts Tapped to Figure out the Future of Java
DZone is planning to release a comprehensive report on the state of Java. Featuring insight from Java experts around the globe, the report will delve into the details of Java, contextualizing where it...
View ArticleCheddar Profile: Jeremy Johnson – Andela Co-Founder and CEO
Jeremy joins Hope King and Alyssa Smith to discuss how Andela identifies top tech talent across Africa to aid the domestic talent shortage in the United States. The post Cheddar Profile: Jeremy Johnson...
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Andela Opens New Nigerian HQ! Hint: It’s EPIC
At Andela, we consider ourselves pretty Excellent. We love to infuse Passion into our work. We approach our gigs with Integrity, and we leverage the amazing people that surround us through relentless...
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Small but Mighty: Mbithe’s Guide to Testing a Python/Flask App With Selenium...
If height were a direct indicator of coding abilities, Mbithe might find herself at a sharp disadvantage in the tech world. Luckily for us, it is not. Mbithe is a software developer based in Nairobi,...
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Andela Developer, Chimdindu’s Journey to Google I/O 2017
This is a guest post by Andela Developer, Chimdindu Aneke. Three months ago, I was fortunate to join Andela as a program manager to lead the Android Learning Community (ALC). In partnership with...
View ArticleUsing JavaScript hoisting to your advantage
Hoisting in JavaScript is a tricky technique, but when used correctly can be beneficial to your code. However, if misused it can turn a harmless looking declaration into a persistent issue. Hoisting is...
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Welcoming Uganda to the Andela Family
When we launched in Nigeria three years ago, there’s no way we could have predicted how much of a continent-wide phenomenon Andela would become. In that time, we’ve grown from a founding team of six to...
View ArticleDeploying A Docker Application On Google Container Engine
The Google Cloud Platform is a cloud computing service from Google that offers a set of enterprise capabilities that leverages the same technologies that are used at Google. It provides a multitude of...
View ArticleHow to Setup a React Environment Using Webpack and Babel
More and more devs are using React, a Facebook and community developed JavaScript library, to craft the kinds of data-heavy, auto-uploading web apps that are used for things like making live social...
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Build an iOS app from scratch
This is a three-part guest tutorial post by Johnson Ejezie, an Andela developer based in Lagos. iOS app: From scratch to app store Part 1 Introduction I believe the best way to learn is by both...
View ArticleA Dive Into Python Closures and Decorators – Part 1
This is a multi-part guest tutorial post by Moyosore Sosan, an Andela developer based in Lagos. We will be looking at local functions, the concepts of closure and what decorators are, sounds like a...
View ArticleGraphQL: Types and Relationships
This is a multi-part tutorial by Orjiewuru Kingdom, an Andela Developer based in Lagos. By the time you finish reading this article, you should have a clear understanding of GraphQL types and schema...
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