Mevrouw Chidinma

• Uptown girl • Feminism in progressu • Tea Aficionado • Fitness & Health • Software Engineering •

[Mevrouw Chidinma @ChidinmaKO]

I choose happiness today. 💃

[SysConf by SysDsgn @sysconf_]

We are excited to announce Chidinma Kalu (@chidinmako) as a speaker at SysConf 2026.

Her talk is titled “The Index Is a Bet You Made at Write Time”

When building an inverted index for a search system, several decisions and assumptions are made about the type of queries the system will receive. The system could take a stored document and tokenize it, normalize it, stem it, discard some information it deems irrelevant and perform some other operations to prepare the index. The final index, then, contains a bet about the types of queries users will ask the system.

This is a talk about how indexes encode a prediction, what happens when the predictions are wrong, and how little design changes can lead to rebuilding the index.

#SysConf #SysConf26

[Phil Eaton @eatonphil]

Since meeting during TigerBeetle days, and on Discord since, I've been impressed with Haile (@haile_lagi) 's intelligence and passion for dbs/distsys. If you're looking for a developer with potential based out of Nigeria, talk to Haile.

RT for reach

https://t.co/Fdppu0qScD

[Mevrouw Chidinma @ChidinmaKO]

@allenakinkunle This is incredible. Well done and congratulations!

[Mevrouw Chidinma @ChidinmaKO]

@TiemmaBakare Happy birthday 🥳🎉🎊

[Mevrouw Chidinma @ChidinmaKO]

I have never tried the snatch before. It is definitely more difficult compared to a clean and jerk. I really admire people who can even attempt it.

[Mevrouw Chidinma @ChidinmaKO]

Olympic weightlifting (snatch/clean and jerk).

[Pat Walls @thepatwalls]

Let's say you have unlimited time and money, do you think it would be possible to medal in an Olympic sport in your lifetime?

(you have to start at 30+ years old with no experience)

Which sport would this be possible?

[Amanda Fortini @amandafortini]

Don't dwell. Do the next right thing and keep moving forward, however incrementally.

[Ben Holmes @BHolmesDev]

I think about this post a lot

[Mevrouw Chidinma @ChidinmaKO]

Hahaha. Same! I remember reading the email last year and asking myself if I really wanted to work there.

[Dmitrii Kovanikov @ChShersh]

I had been using Ubuntu for 10 years.

Last year, I applied to Canonical for a job to develop Ubuntu itself in Rust. Before the interview, they asked me to write a 20-page essay about my life, aspirations, philosophy and whatnot.

Anyway, this is my desktop now.

[Mevrouw Chidinma @ChidinmaKO]

I have only met one person who transitioned from backend (C++) to front end development.

[Mevrouw Chidinma @ChidinmaKO]

@shaundai I did! I started out as a front end developer then transitioned to full-stack development. Now, I am a backend developer.

It was a great move. It has made me a better engineer and even more valuable.

[Mevrouw Chidinma @ChidinmaKO]

@shaundai I did! I started out as a front end developer then transitioned to full-stack development. Now, I am a backend developer.

It was a great move. It has made me a better engineer and even more valuable.

[Brandon Roberts @brandontroberts]

What's a DEI engineer? 🤨 #Crowdstrike

[tim is different now🥰 @elchefe]

Just a reminder for those watching the discourse around the crowdstrike issue:
If you use "DEI engineer" to describe a person, you are a racist.

[Dr. Ufuoma 🛰🌍 @ItsUfuoma]

Last week I defended my PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. My dissertation foci spanned satellite remote sensing 🛰️, systems engineering, and environmental (in)justice💨 in U.S. prisons. SO MUCH GRATITUDE for all of the support 🙏🏿. Recording of the defense is below ⬇️

[Sarah Drasner @sarah_edo]

Every time you pick being uncomfortable in the short term to invest in your longterm self (like learning something new), you reinforce the ability to make this same investment in the future.

[Mevrouw Chidinma @ChidinmaKO]

Such a beautiful man.

[KOLA OMOTOSO @kolapo__o]

+1🎂🥳

[Mevrouw Chidinma @ChidinmaKO]

@Miss_Matagu Can’t wait to meet up with you again. Slide into my DMs, let’s talk about when you can fly me out. 🤭💖

[Mevrouw Chidinma @ChidinmaKO]

Love it for you.

[SysDsgn DSA Program @sdsaprogram]

What a great way to end the Heaps class, Let's Keep It Heap @ChidinmaKO

Those who attended the class can relate with this.

#Heaps #WolfstationDSA #Wdsap