About
I am Godswill Okwara, a Computer Science graduate from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. I had a four year stint Studying Mechanical Engineering at the same school(Shouldn't be called a stint though).
I have been writing codes actively for four years and learnt almost everything I know from reading materials and watching videos over the internet.
I aspire to become a Technology Entrepreneur, using technology to solve the problems that have beleaguered us in Africa.
I work with Flutterwave - a Payment Infrastructure company that offers one API to Pay and Get Paid across all channels in Africa, and I have worked with PayWithCapture Limited - makers of the first digital bank in Africa, Hotels.ng - the first (arguably, the best) hotel booking website in Nigeria and FoneBase Labs - makers of Callbase and Fonenode.
I am an Ex-Google Student Ambassador - I won the "Star Google Student Ambassador" award in 2015.
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LAMP Stack
I am very familiar with this stack and use it a lot.
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NodeJS (Sails.js)
I have a level of experience working with this technology using the sails.js framework.
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Mobile Dev (Hybrid)
I develop hybrid mobile Apps using the Ionic Framework and AngujarJS.
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Support Engineering
I have a high level of experience resolving Technical Issues for Clients.
Blog
Getting started with Sails.js: General Overview
What is Sails.js? Sails is a Node.js framework that makes it easy to build custom, enterprise-grade Node.js apps. As described on the Sail.js homepage, It is designed to emulate the familiar MVC pattern of frameworks like Ruby on Rails, but with support for the requirements of modern apps: data-driven APIs with a scalable, service-oriented architecture. It’s[…]
What’s it like interning at Flutterwave?
At Flutterwave, we recently started having interns coming through to work with us and it’s been very exciting having new people in the office. They come, spend time with us, observing how we work, learn and teach and at the end of their internships; they go on into the world better prepared for whatever careers[…]
The importance of Test Driven Development
Test-driven development (TDD), is a new age evolutionary approach to development which emphasizes test-first development. Here you write a test before you write just enough production code to fulfill that test and then go on to refactor the code. The primary goal of TDD is specification and not validation (Martin, Newkirk, and Kess 2003). In other[…]
LAMP to MEAN, the shift
This STACK has the ability to scale easily with large datasets. MEAN is more than a simple rearrangement of acronym letters, The MEAN (MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, Node.js) stack is a modern challenger to the long-popular LAMP(Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack for building professional websites with open source software. MEAN represents a major shift in architecture[…]
