Building an AI powered HR relocation platform and just tested the Slack integration!
7 automatic notifications fire into Slack at every step:
Case created
Compliance passed
Compliance failed
HR approved
HR rejected
Relocation guide ready
Error detected
After 3 incredible years and 1.6M students later, my journey at ALX Africa has come to an end.
It has been a life-changing experience, during which I made a lot of friends, worked with an incredibly dedicated team, and met so many talented students.
A few numbers. We scaled from a few thousand students to 1.6M students on our platform. Students loved it and many of them took more than one course: 4M total! For the famous #ALX_SE Software engineering program, our SE students made an average of 2,000 commits and our checker reviewed 180M of their projects. Thatโs 2B lines of codeโฆ and that was before Claude Code. They actually wrote these themselves (unless Kimba said otherwise :)
A big thank you to all my SE team mates, I am so proud of what we have accomplished, and I will really miss you all. Thank you to Fred for the trust he put in me and always supporting my crazy new and disruptive ideas.
Thank you to my students. It was an honor to work with you, watch you struggle but relentlessly move forward, no matter what, until you got this job. To those who are still struggling finding this job, keep pushing forward. Donโt let go. You got this. You all have worked so hard and I am so proud of you. You are the greatest thing I've ever been part of and I can't wait to see what impact you will have on the world. Itโs your turn to shine now, and hopefully for some of you to give back to the community whenever you are in a position to.
I hope youโll keep sharing the good news with me when you get this internship, this job, or when you launch your company. These messages are everything to me. In any case, Iโll be watching you from afar, and you can count on me to continue answering all your LinkedIn and X messages.
Canโt conclude without ALX Africaโs signature: continue to โDo Hard Thingsโ. Remember who you are, where you are coming from, and where you set out to go. Iโll see you there soon.
With love.
J
PS: Want to know what's next for me? Drop your email here: https://t.co/yTz7qTwTfU
Going live on Spaces with Founders Forge Cohort One alumni in 2 hours!
Weโll unpack the founders journey from hackathon project โ real company.
What changed. What broke. What scaled.
If youโre building in the Frontiers of Collaboration Hackathon, donโt miss this!
#365DaysOfSoftwareEngineering still lives ๐
I have been doing harder things, but on a larger scale.
I'll share it all soon.
I've completed my project nexus for ProDev backend engineering on #ALX_PDBE@facesofalxse
API Docs: https://t.co/BgiUKet9Jr
App: https://t.co/5QSkPovcO7
Backend x AI โ Ready to scale for the future?
Join Mendie Uwemedimo & Israel Ohue, on Friday 5PM (GMT+1) for Scaling AI-Driven Backends.
๐ Register: https://t.co/ZYEecDB2IM
โ Ask the experts: https://t.co/G1jpzW4mw9
#ALX_SE#ALX_FE @ALX_BE @alx_africa@alxseinnigeria
This Saturday, Iโm joining @DohouDaniel10 for a webinar on:
Landing Frontend Roles in the Age of AI ๐
๐ง AI is shifting expectations
๐งญ New roles are emerging
๐ฏ Prep matters as much as skills
๐ At @OctoPrepAI , we help junior job seekers get unstuck
๐ Aug 9 | ๐ 5PM WAT | 9AM PST
๐ Register: https://t.co/uZYUs48Wl9
#Frontend #AI #SoftwareEngineering #OctoPrep #JobSearch
We're pleased to announce the next phase in our evolution as a community โ Yabacon Academy ๐๐.
Our mission? To reduce the skills gap in Africa by training and certifying over 5,000 individuals in high-demand fields like Cybersecurity and AI. You could be one of them!
Head over to https://t.co/pnSCnLQBXF today to grab a 15% discount on any one of our globally recognized cybersecurity offerings.
if @DohouDaniel10 isn't in the news, then there's something wrong. Daniel and the #Jechies team were awarded the Most Innovative Solution at the #ALX9JATHON
congratulationss๐๐
We emerged as the team with the "Most Innovative Solution" in the #ALXNGHackathon 1.0
The Hackathon provided an opportunity to collaborate as a team with the mindset of creating real world solutions.
Thank you #ALX9ja@alx_africa for this opportunity.
#alxnigeria#lifeatalx
Sorry for the long wait ๐โโ๏ธ
I've been extremely preoccupied
In case you missed it, here's the slide to the #Git & #GitHub Session we held last week @alxseinnigeria#ALX_SE ๐ณ๐ฌ
๐: https://t.co/mUDMrugTRc
Stay tuned! โค๏ธ
Oh, you're welcome ๐
#OpenSource#DoHardThings ๐
Techies, Assemble! ๐๐
It's tomorrow ๐โโ๏ธ
Save a seat here: https://t.co/zVH60NNQsz
I promise, it'll be fun and I'll break it down ๐ค
Face your fears with #Git and #GitHub โข Be ready for #OpenSource contribution ๐
You're Welcome
@alxseinnigeria#ALX_SE#DoHardThings ๐
On the 4th April, I'll be hosting a Git & GitHub session.
From creating a repository, to setting up a #GitHub account, to merging conflicts, to Open Source contribution, I promise, this will be fun ๐โโ๏ธ
Save a seat
๐: https://t.co/zVH60NOoi7
#ALX_SE#OpenSource#DoHardThings