21st Century Rockstars
by Eugene Mutai
Facebook/Twitter/Github: @kn9ts
Life Before Building Software
How does Facebook work?
HTML 4.1
CSS 2
JAVASCRIPT
PHP
BAMBA 10
10 mb for 8 bob
Our BIG APPLE
Community Space
My 1st Job: GridPlot Visualiser
6 months long project, 1st time using JavaScript
PrittyNote
After learning how to use the browser CANVAS API I got a cool idea of an app I could build.
StatusShare
...and another cool idea, maybe?!?!
What I did not realize.
I was/had learnt so much, name it: grasped the syntax well, authentication, social auth, working with JSON, data structures, REST APIs, server security, application deployment, version control
I also proudly shared my work a lot
One thing led to another...
Joined the iHub Consultancy Elite team
Full-stack Software Engineer
With a preference towards front-end development because of my thousands of hours that lead to taming the JavaScript beast
I eventualy got nicknamed 'Fullstack'
Currently the largest developer community in Kenya
Inactive at the moment, reviving it soon...
In Web Technologies
VituMob.com
1 million dollars in revenue
This made me learn it's not just about the software.
Continues Journey to become a world-class developer
and then Project Mulla
Open Source | 200+ stars / 70 forks
1,000,000 Developers
shortage (let alone great ones) by the year 2020
BE CURIOUS, and determined
Do the hard things, and reap
Persistence
Perseverance
Consistency
So where? when? how? do you start?
All I know and ever need to know is how to get solutions to people's problems and I will stay relevant.
Eugene Mutai - @kn9ts