Hola👋 I'm Paul,
I built a popular tool - Ahantu for easily finding cells, villages, sectors, and districts from street addresses and geo coordinates in Rwanda.
I am building NextPesa, A tool to aggregate mobile money transaction data💸.
In my spare time, I enjoy mountain biking and trying out new trails🚴♂️.
Favourites Tools 🧵 🪡
- MongoDB(keeps your db problems till later).
- Golang(a true Swiss army knife, great for everyday needs while simultaneously low-level enough to do systems programming and all the cool networking stuff).
- Node.js.
- Kubernetes(sends you on a learning roller coaster that includes but is not limited to container internals, networking, security, deployment patterns and Linux).
- Vim (I heard it causes receding hairline, but it's worth it).
- Linux (Well, you can't run away from it)
Currently Learning 📝 📌
- Linux - through the LFCS curriculum, I won't be taking the certification itself.
- Kubernetes - In preparation to get certified as a Certified Kubernetes Administrator(CKA).
- Terraform, shell scripting, Kubernetes, and its tooling.
- Random computer sciency things.
Currently Reading 📚 📖
- Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual by John Sonmez
- Google technical writing course - Casually audited this courses a couple of years ago, but I've been writing more lately, and I'd benefit from going through the material again.
- Hands-On System Programming with Go by Alex Guerrieri — So I can pretend I'm smart on Twitter.
- Concurrency in Go; tools and techniques for developers by Katherine Cox-Buday.
I occasionally write on my blog here https://dev.to/paularah. I kept a low-budget Youtube channel while teaching at Solvit Africa — a bootcamp for budding software engineers.