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.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.prittyapp

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...

http://nairobi.go.ke

Joined the iHub Consultancy Elite team

https://ihub.co.ke/blogs/23923

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...

http://meetup.com/nairobi-js

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