Giant telco Safaricom yesterday launched the first Safaricom Engineering Summit that aims to support young talented engineers and software developers.
The two-day interactive event focuses on putting a dent in the universe by developing digital skills in the market and build a pool of 1000 digital talent for the industry.
This was the first event bringing together software developers and young engineers to be bold and be part of the digital decode system.
“It is key for people to see what we are doing, and engineers to tell the story of where they are going as an engineering community in Kenya,” said George Njuguna, Director of Information Technology, Safaricom PLC.
Safaricom as a technology company has brought excitement to Kenyan’s technology community driven by the digital future on the government’s Big 4 Agenda, demand Tech talent, and open market talent.
“Trust our local engineers to develop the M-Pesa app. We have built a team of about 500, we are making a dent not just in Kenya but in Africa,” George Njuguna added.
“Anything that happens in digital conversations can be decoded, all you need to know is how to decode the bytes”, said the Co-founder of Meliora, Samwel Kamochu.
The Safaricom engineering community that was officially launched at the summit today is made up of 9 chapters that is cloud computing, software Engineering, Data Science, Cyber Security, Internet of things, product management, fintech, and performance engineering to create solutions in the tech space.
Among the Maverick engineers and developers who will participate in the coding challenge one during the summit were Chaos Engineering, a discipline of injecting failure into the system that aims to compare what happens in theory and what happens in reality with the goal of catching outages before they even happen.
The other team was Daraja, a financial device solution Provider. The third one was the retailer flow squad which has developed an E-Flow ecosystem that helps with the simplification of retail shop processes and developments of products that empower the agents to serve their customers within the shortest time possible, the rest were DLX, Safaricom App, Enterprise solutions and IOT squad just to mention a few.
“We have an opportunity to create something bigger than us, let us all join hands together for a common good”, said Paul Kasimu Chief Human Resources Officer.
The summit continues today for the third and fourth code challenge where the keynote speaker will be Ministry of Information, Communication, and Technology (MOICT) Cabinet Secretary Hon. Joseph Mucheru.