#29: Prof. Nandaa on Computing, Convictions and Consistency

In this episode the host duo and the guest jovially get into the trenches that built the brilliant software engineer Anthony Nandaa aka Prof. They take it back to his coming to Nairobi from the village in his lecturer suit and take it forward to his current passions, positions and pursuits around computing and beyond. They talk; breakdowns and breakthroughs, fallacies and benefits of tunnel vision, ambition and expectations. Prof shares lessons from UNI days and experiences that he holds onto to date, learning and unlearning through the student to lecturer journey, C4D, friendships, focus, distractions, resignations and so on. Walking the duo through his career journey they pick gems from his leadership, entrepreneurship and mentorship hats, making for a great listen - highlighting lessons and signposts to success in computer science and life. The episode sweetly spills into stories around Nandaa’s other passions such as jazz and the bass guitar, also sharing stories from his childhood, church, fatherhood, forests, hills, writing, coding, how he met his wife, ‘assuming you are not Mark Zuckerberg’, the quarry workers creed, faith and so much more!   This episode is brought to you by Prevail Presents.   Anthony Nandaa is a software engineer with experience spanning almost 20 years. He earned his BSc. Computer Science from the University of Nairobi; later on enrolled for a MSc. Applied Computing, which is still ongoing. The proud dad and husband is currently a Senior Engineer at an undisclosed company. He is also a serial entrepreneur; having started a successful software development shop, Deveint Limited, and several other startups that are still in the works: Beyonde Labs, Kazi+ and others in the pipeline. In his free time his other passions come calling; from books, bass guitar, chess to most recently starting a YouTube channel for tech interview preparations (Blackbored).  Show notes Nandaa’s ran and associate companies -  Deveint - https://deveint.com  -  Kazi+ - https://kaziplus.com -  Blackbored YouTube channel - http://bored.black - The bassist that inspires Nandaa the most - Wayman Tisdale   SPECIAL: Nandaa’s latest blog update appreciating his journey in Computing so far  - https://heynandaa.medium.com/20-years-of-gratitude-f13de844b44c    Books - Beginning API Development with Node JS - by Anthony Nandaa:   - Book he'd gift a CS student -  Introduction to Algorithms, fourth edition - Book he'd gift a startup bro/sis -  Rework - Book quoted in the episode; The Algebra of Happiness by Scott Galloway PS. Visit C4D Lab to see what they are currently up to and some of the alumni that Prof worked with.