Tech Leadership Meetup with Veliswa Boya (Developer Advocate at AWS)

Join us at our next in-person Tech Leadership meetup. There will be drinks and snacks to kickoff the evening.

The event will be hosted at the AWS Skills Center Cape Town (57 Heerengracht Street).

The agenda for the evening will be as follows:
17:30 - 18:00 - Arrival: Drinks and snacks.
18:00 - 18:05 - Introduction and house rules.
18:05 - 19:00 - Main speaker - Veliswa Boya.
19:00 - 19:30 - Networking and wrap up.

Topic of Main Talk - Lessons learned from technical mentoring of Africa’s Cloud Engineers

A Developer Advocate advocates for the community internally, making sure that product always considers the community experience. Developer Advocates also provide technical nurturing of the community, all with the goal of helping them use the technologies successfully to build innovative products. Prior to joining AWS, Veliswa always had a passion for mentoring, and she started doing this at times as part of mentoring programs offered by Offerzen and SheSharp, to name a few. Now a Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Veliswa has continued to mentor the next generation of cloud engineers. In this session, she will share her learnings from her time spent providing technical mentoring. Join to learn how you can approach mentoring of entry level technical personas to build a pipeline of technical talent.

Thank you to our sponsors Peach Payments, OfferZen, and Root

Peach Payments (https://www.peachpayments.com/) make online commerce and digital payment acceptance easier and more accessible across all Africa. We believe in the potential of Africa and aim to grow into more countries. Based in Cape Town, South Africa, we work with small and large merchants in South Africa, Kenya and Mauritius to provide a complete toolkit to accept, manage and disburse payments through web and mobile. Our merchant partners include your favourite food delivery services, whether you are ordering in or using a meal kit, travel services that can help you book your next getaway adventure and even your neighbour’s side-hustle e-commerce store. For these partners and their customers, we aim to provide brilliant experiences that make it as easy as possible to facilitate online payments.

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OfferZen (https://www.offerzen.com/) is an online job marketplace by developers for developers. Our mission is to help people unlock their potential by helping them build awesome software. That’s why we are connecting actively looking developers with exciting job opportunities from over 1000 companies in South Africa and the Netherlands. We flip the normal recruitment process on its head – companies reach out to candidates with upfront salary information.

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Root (https://rootplatform.com/) is a platform for modern insurance designed around data, flexibility and control. It allows for end-to-end digital insurance that streamlines product launches and digital engagement. Our easy-to-use APIs handle compliance, regulatory, and reporting complexities. Our low-code platform, designed for software developers by software developers, simplifies workflow and fosters innovation. We prioritise the needs of developers, designers, actuaries, and data scientists to build modern insurance products. Our APIs, product data models, and low-code environment empower product teams to prototype and launch tailored experiences for customers. Our mission is to bring insurance to the internet age and make it more accessible to all.