Which path do you think is favourable in Kenya between Software Engineering (SWE) or IT.

What are your thoughts on this? Is it SWE where it is very competitive and fewer e.g like in Safaricom, Fintech Startups or IT where you have to start at the bottom and do many certs but jobs could be a bit more numerous e.g like in banks, edu( think starting from Help desk, Sys Admin then later Cloud, Cybersec e.t.c) . What has been your experience like/ or your knowledge in the industry.

At the end it doesn’t matter what you pursued what matters is what do you have to offer to an organisation…get the skills in either of those

Nimefanya IT… software ni complex but you’ll be in a league of your own

What was your career path?

I just knew technology was the future…I did not do it for employment…for me nilikuwa nataka tu kujua kuhack na kudevelop apps na websites…that way I would be able to make an insane amount of money both legally by being contracted by firms/companies/schools and Universities or illegally/criminally by hacking people on kenyatalk/WhatsApp/Instagram/Facebook or any other web/platform and selling their account or content to the highest bidder

all tech fields have potential in the foreseeable future, bottom line is you have to be good at what you do, when you say software don’t think it’s mrely writing a piece of code at face value, you have to understand the architecture of the software you are writing, the data structures etc., IT has many facets from networking to hardware etc. I have no idea what you want to specialize in, but bottom line be good at your craft, some of us that’s what has held us ,you’ll be head hunted across the globe. If you were to ask me do anything cloud, AI ,machine learning related that’s the future

Jump directly into SWE if you’re still young. Ukishazeeka and wanted to switch careers, it will be extremely difficult to handle SWE due to life commitments and some cognitive decline.

Just be good in what you do. Mbesha itakufuata.

SWE kwanza sahii kuna trend ya watu wa Data analytics na science sana na cloud tech