Nyasha is the host of Nyasha Presents: Zim Beyond the Degree, a podcast dedicated to exploring the inspiring journeys of Zimbabwean entrepreneurs, changemakers, and leaders navigating life after university. Although the podcast has been on a hiatus for the past year, it remains a platform for celebrating the hard work, courage, and hope that define Zimbabwe’s next generation.
Stay tuned for updates as Nyasha continues to shine a spotlight on the stories of those breaking barriers and making a mark beyond the classroom.
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Nyasha is the host of Nyasha Presents: Zim Beyond the Degree, a podcast dedicated to exploring the inspiring journeys of Zimbabwean entrepreneurs, changemakers, and leaders navigating life after university. Although the podcast has been on a hiatus for the past year, it remains a platform for celebrating the hard work, courage, and hope that define Zimbabwe’s next generation.
Stay tuned for updates as Nyasha continues to shine a spotlight on the stories of those breaking barriers and making a mark beyond the classroom.
29. From Unsatisfactory A-Levels to Successful Mobile App Development: Tinashe Muzondiwa's Journey
Nyasha Presents - Zim Beyond The Degree
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2 years ago
29. From Unsatisfactory A-Levels to Successful Mobile App Development: Tinashe Muzondiwa's Journey
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
Nyasha Presents - Zim Beyond The Degree
Nyasha is the host of Nyasha Presents: Zim Beyond the Degree, a podcast dedicated to exploring the inspiring journeys of Zimbabwean entrepreneurs, changemakers, and leaders navigating life after university. Although the podcast has been on a hiatus for the past year, it remains a platform for celebrating the hard work, courage, and hope that define Zimbabwe’s next generation.
Stay tuned for updates as Nyasha continues to shine a spotlight on the stories of those breaking barriers and making a mark beyond the classroom.
