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Ardan Labs Podcast

Programming on Paper with Henry Erabor

Ardan Labs Podcast

Bill Kennedy

Ardanlabs, Golang, Computer Science, Technology, Tech, Kubernetes, Go Time Podcast, Ardan Labs, Docker, Tech Careers, Education, Bill Kennedy, Engineering

57 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Ehioje Henry Erabor is a senior software engineer at BFREE. Growing up in Nigeria in the 1990’s, programming was not common in schools. Henry recalls a memory of his class being brought to the computer lab but they were instructed NOT to touch, only look. From that moment he wanted to know how these "TV’s with keyboards" operated. We learn about the school system in Nigeria, programming on paper, the National Youth Service Corps, and Henry’s path to becoming a software engineer. Connect with...

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0:00.0

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0:04.6

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0:11.3

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0:30.6

Hi, welcome to the Arden Labs podcast, and our special guest today all the way from Nigeria is Henry Irabbo. Hey, Henry. Thank you so much for joining us today. Yeah, it's a privilege to be here. I'm so excited to talk to you. I found your name on

0:41.1

Twitter. I'd like to go through the Golang tag, and I saw some kind of cool stuff that you

0:47.3

were doing on Twitter, and I thought, I got to talk to Henry. I think Henry would be a great guest

0:52.4

for the podcast. And I am really completely clueless about life in Nigeria.

1:00.7

I've been to Kenya.

1:01.6

I got to Nairobi, and that was amazing experience.

1:05.6

So I'm going to have a lot of questions for you.

1:08.2

This podcast is kind of really about your journey through tech. Seeing you on

1:14.6

the GoFeed was really awesome. And so why don't you give everybody like a minute or two to tell them

1:21.5

a little bit about yourself and what you're doing right now. Presently, I'm employed as a software

1:27.3

engineer, the company in Nigeria.

1:31.2

So we use GoLan as the technology for the backing and development.

1:39.4

And at the same time, we used a couple of other tools, like GraphQL Postgres,

1:51.6

EWEs for the management of all our clad services and the lights.

1:59.2

But my journey into school actually started.

2:02.6

No, no, no, no. Don't tell me this yet. I'm going to take you there. I got, I got questions.

2:07.1

We're not going to start there. But what is it that your company, what does your company do?

2:11.3

What is it that your company does? What are the problems that you're working on?

2:15.7

I would say we provide a kind of customer relationship management system whereby companies

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