Valery MONGES

Former deputy CIO @groupe_ionis @BocalStaff / partner @CTO_Partners / member @while42 @techrocksfr/ alumni @epitech @embaepitech

[Valery MONGES @monges_v]

@RATP a quand la même chose à paris?

[Sophie @Sophie_RB42]

This is just the beginning 🥳

[Julien Barbier 🙃❤️🏴‍☠️ @jbarbier]

📢 #ALX_AIDEV Our tech team is solving a bug on our intranet that prevents some learners to access the projects of the AI for DEV 2 program. So @kalibetre and I decided to share the projects here for you to start learning. Enjoy! 🙏RT to ensure all learners see this.

[Valery MONGES @monges_v]

Use of @Waymo ✅

[Valery MONGES @monges_v]

Happy birthday Singapore!

[Amaury Bouchard @geekcto]

Un site pour comparer en temps réel les offres de serveurs dédiés #OVH et #Dedibox

Après avoir publié et tenu à jour un Google Sheet répertoriant les offres, j'ai créé le site https://t.co/yE0nl7fAyR

Vous y trouverez le détail des serveurs ainsi que leurs disponibilités.

[Sophie @Sophie_RB42]

I am deeply happy and proud to celebrate the 10 years of @holbertonschool

TL, DR

What began with a one San Francisco cohort, has grown worldwide across Latin America, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. @42Krp current CEO, and all the Holberton partners are doing an incredible job to expand the Holberton School Network into more countries.

🌎 Today Holberton is:
↳ A disruptive model with no teacher, in a peer-learning and project based environment,
↳ 36 campuses worldwide,
↳ Thousands of students trained to be the most ambitious software engineer,
↳ Offering Programs focusing on what’s best on the market: FullStack Web development, AR/VR, Machine Learning, Low Level and Algorithms, Front-End Back-End, Cybersecurity, Cobol and GenAI and more to come in the future,
↳ Millions of line of codes,
↳ A determination to always go further in supporting talent.

Such an amazing success and the continuity of what was one idea, one day, 10 years ago…

How It All Began

Let’s take a step back now and let’s come back in 2015 when my husband, @jbarbier , came home with that signature sparkle in his eye when he has a new idea (or more like the visualisation of entering the matrix for the first time) and said “we’re going to build a school to train the best software engineers with no teachers, no up-front tuition, Project and Peer-learning based. (I would learn fast enough on a compliance stand-point and for those who knew the usa market at that time, that we were indeed very - too much - disruptive!)

When I started to be involved, I was a young mom of a 7 months old baby and was mourning my father who just passed away. While I was navigating this intense period, I started to help him and was “enrolled” to test the application process (What the heck is a “Terminal”?!).

I never left.

2 months later, from that small team of four, joined shortly after by @guillaumesalva aka “chef” aka “the checker master” and a bit later @cyrjulien aka “the Chief of Design”. I worked on “anything related to everything” from finance, legal, ops, HR, compliance to running the SF campus, you name it.

And as we were building the company, increasing the team and expanding worldwide, I’ve lived every high and low of that adventure:
💻 There was the excitement of our first 30 students cohort transforming them from “what is C++?” through “THE checker” to finally Apple, Google and Tesla hires!
💸 The rush funding rounds with a Series B celebration (and this incredible presentation to our investors where Julien showed them a slide “The Future of Education is Onsite”) just before the pandemic hit (literally a few weeks before!).
⚖️ The regulatory battle with BPPE (#compliance).
😷 The pivot in 48h from fully on site to fully online when the pandemic hit.
😔 The hard decision and the layoffs
🚀 The global expansion starting with Colombia, Connecticut, Tulsa campuses and the joy when our students were able to find life-changing jobs.
🌍 Finally the acquisition from ALX Africa which shaped the future of thousands of African young students.

In the meantime, while we were defying the odds through it all, our investors and advisors believed in us and stood by us - what an incredible support we had.

At the same time, our personal lives moved crazy fast as well. We welcomed our first child, while launching Holberton and then welcomed baby number two, 2 years later. That’s why Holberton has such a special place for me, it was more than a job; it was completely part of our life.

During that time and for 7 years, I witnessed life as both the wife of a CEO and entrepreneur and “the co-founder in the shadow” while building Holberton. On the first part, I know the downside and upside of it, the thousands of questions, the high pressure, the incredible resilience, the hard decision, the relief when the funds hit the bank account, the celebration when our students were getting a job. We navigated the highs and lows together, him at the front line as CEO while I supported behind the scenes, together while raising our children. This journey shaped us into a deep and trustful team, balancing the demands of a startup with family life. I'm so proud of what we built together from that day he came home with that crazy idea and never gave up on it.

Where We Are Now

In 2022, Holberton evolved. The franchises were acquired by @42Krp and the platform and technology were acquired by @alx_africa. Today while the @holbertonschool Network is expanding, with @facesofalxse, the Holberton’s engine powers ambitious software engineering students and since that time 1.29 million learners have been able to access it.

I see a lot of posts of graduate students finding jobs thanks to Holberton, and I couldn’t be more proud. The scale of impact is also now extended through an incredible network of alumni, giving back to the community and creating such high value.

One of these incredible grads is @_MariemEhab with whom I work everyday building @OctoPrepAI to help prep job seekers with interviews.

So to every student who trusted us, every member of the Holberton team who joined us in this adventure, to every mentor and investor who stayed along the way, THANK YOU ✨

Happy 10th anniversary, @holbertonschool ! Let’s keep changing lives, to the next million learners, the next pivot, and the next incredible adventure!

@holbertonschool @HolbertonFRA @HolbertonPeru @holbertonspr @HolbertonTUN @HolbertonALB @HolbertonECU @HolbertonSSA @holbertonuy @HolbertonLSO @HolbertonSPAIN

[bearstech @bearstech]

Awesome Sysadmin : Une liste très complète de ressources Open Source pour les administrateurs système

👉 https://t.co/q8wEBJssvk"

[Valery MONGES @monges_v]

À voir absolument! https://t.co/Uc8qnjzzQ0

[Valery MONGES @monges_v]

@steeve @Chronopost C etait pas plus simple de passer directement par FedEx, t aurais gagner un intermédiaire

[Valery MONGES @monges_v]

🚀 Bravo! @ouanilo et la team @EpitechBenin https://t.co/xtplYIft7n

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

How SSH port became the default TCP/22
https://t.co/2kTJ9Ga1Et #linux #unix #history

[Julien Briault 🩷💿💜 @ju_hnny5]

Aux @restosducoeur nous recherchons actuellement :
- des firewalls (type Forti ou Juniper) ou tout type d’équipements réseau permettant de faire du routage
- des ordinateurs portables/macbook
- des écrans

N’hésites pas à partager et à me contacter si vous avez des contacts. 🙏🏼🩷

[ANSSI @ANSSI_FR]

L’@ANSSI_FR lance #Hackropole 🏛 une plateforme regroupant la quasi-totalité des épreuves du France Cybersecurity Challenge #FCSC. 🇫🇷 🏆

Une centaine d’épreuves est déjà disponible ! 💪

🚀Rendez-vous dès maintenant sur : https://t.co/nprTcW49Z1

#ANSSI #numérique #FCSC #ECSC

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

This is Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara and his wife Yukiko. They spent 18-20 hours a day writing and signing transit visas by hand in Lithuania for thousands of Jews for 29 days from July 31 to August 28, 1940.

Yukiko described their last days in Lithuania: "He was so exhausted, like a sick person. Even though he was ordered to go to Berlin, he said he couldn't make it to Berlin and suggested we go to a hotel and rest before leaving. When we got to the hotel, the Jewish people came looking for us there. So he wrote some more visas in the hotel.

The next day when we got to the train station, they were there too. So he wrote more visas on the platform until the train left. Once we were on board, they were hanging on the windows, and he wrote some more. When the train started moving, he couldn't write anymore. Everyone was waving their hands. One of them called out, 'Thank you Mr. Sugihara, we will come to see you again,' and he came running after the train. I couldn't stop crying. When I think about it, even now, I can't help crying."

As the train left the station, Sugihara said, "Please forgive me. I cannot write anymore. I wish you the best." It is estimated that the actions undertaken by him and his wife are responsible for the present lives of around 100,000 people.

After the war, Sugihara was forced to resign and work menial jobs (selling light bulbs door to door). He languished in relative obscurity until 1968 when an Israeli diplomat managed to find him and finally got him the recognition that he deserved.

Sugihara never told anyone what he had done during the war. Even his closest friends had no idea. "I may have disobeyed my government, but if I didn't, I would be disobeying God. In life, do what's right because it's right, and leave it alone."

[Valery MONGES @monges_v]

Y a-t-il des clients de la société de construction Franco Suisse qui ont du mal a faire résoudre leurs reserve par le constructeur?

[Valery MONGES @monges_v]

43 ans pour savoir a quoi servait un bidet :) Merci @arteKARAMBOLAGE ! https://t.co/wTCv1WHWao

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

A Lego letter to parents from 1974.

Here's the letter transcribed:

"To Parents

The urge to create is equally strong in all children. Boys and girls.

It's the imagination that counts. Not skill. You build whatever comes into your head, the way you want it. A bed or a truck.

A dolls house or a spaceship.
A lot of boys like dolls houses.

They're more human than spaceships. A lot of girls prefer spaceships. They're more exciting than dolls houses. The most important thing is to put the right material in their hands and let them create whatever appeals to them.”

Lego has no military related sets because the inventor's policy was to not want to make war seem like child's play.

[Steeve Morin @steeve]

Bravo au poto @squirelo pour un truc qui change vraiment la vie des gens. Et en plus médaille d'or au Lépine.

https://t.co/gGcCkS72kD