“...defying all the odds stacked against them and excelling in this male dominated field.”
When you think of women in tech, especially in Africa, more often than not, only a few names probably come to mind. While there are many women doing great things in the tech space in Africa, there’s still a visibility problem.
During my visit, I met Omotayo Madein, a senior software engineer who joined the Andela in 2018, Hamdalah Adetunji, currently a frontend engineer who joined the Andela fellowship in 2017. And Olaide Agboola, now also a senior software engineer but went through the company’s four-year fellowship which she completed earlier this year.All three women’s experiences, though different, tell a single story of an African woman’s journey into a career in tech.
On the other hand, Hamdalah Adetunji’s curiousity led her into tech. Growing up, she had always wondered what made technologies work. However, she didn’t act on this curiousity until her third year into studying Science Laboratory Technology at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology. Fast forward to 2016, during her National Youth Service Corp year, Hamdalah applied for Django Girls, a two-day workshop about programming in Python and Django for women. This was her first introduction to computer programming.Olaide says her first experience with practicing her skills came in 2013 during her compulsory industrial training.
Omotayo’s work experience came in the form of short stints at a couple of companies. She started off in 2014 as an executive assistant and the lone developer in the IT unit of an Abuja-based ICT company, Puzzles Group Limited. About a year later, she decided to go back to her software programming roots. She got a job as a frontend engineer at fetchr, a Dubai-based delivery startup with its 50-man engineering team based in Nigeria. There, she continued to hone her skills in JavaScript and began using Angular.
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