29. From Unsatisfactory A-Levels to Successful Mobile App Development: Tinashe Muzondiwa's Journey
FEB 5, 202336 MIN
29. From Unsatisfactory A-Levels to Successful Mobile App Development: Tinashe Muzondiwa's Journey
FEB 5, 202336 MIN
Description
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