UAMUZI HUB
Engineering Academy
Uamuzi Hub is an engineering group with fresh insights, new ideas, and diverse skills learning and working collaboratively and strategically to strengthen our community. The Hub is committed to generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge, and to working with others to bring to existence some of the best innovations. We are primarily focused on young developers aged below 35 years who are selected through online applications, interviews and boot camps. We accept requests on a rolling basis. Intensely curious and driven to explore, our developers value rigorous analytical thinking, ingenuity, hands-on problem solving and big new ideas. Stimulating, supportive, and playful, our Hub is a second home for many engineers.
Values
We believe in the power of participation and active engagement in the process of creating practical solutions to the challenges we face. We work with integrity, humility, respect and maintain an optimistic belief that we can do something to create a better world defined by equitable opportunity. We pursue our work with a commitment to excellence, good stewardship of the resources we use, accountability for achieving measurable and durable impact, and taking joy in the opportunity to collectively build a better world. We are committed to creativity, diversity and inclusion in our work environment and our community to constantly learn, communicate honestly and to continuously improve our programs, products, and partnerships.
Benefits
Community - We create a safe space yet challenging environment for engineers to connect among themselves and showcase their skills, get feedback, consider other perspectives, invite creative tension and take risks.
Exposure - We help them to explore their interests and discover their true passion early and learn how to work with others with complementary abilities.
Support to grow - We provide them the ability to be agile and try new technologies and processes along the way that will shape them to be more on the cutting edge in the tech world.
Programme and Network - We support them to feel part of our network by gaining visibility and credibility and connect to like-minded individuals locally and globally..
Mentorship and collaboration - We connect our engineers to a diverse community of entrepreneurs, practitioners, investors and organizations by providing access to mentors and expert coaches for collaboration and support towards each other’s ambitions.
Skills
We accept requests from a wide range of skills in:
FROM HEAD OF HUB
Antony Gakuru
“We hire smart engineers for their potential, not their past. Our biggest expectation is that they stay curious, keep learning and take on more responsibility. In return, we’ll equip them to develop into an even more awesome version of themselves”
Diversity
We are keener on promoting diversity and inclusion in the tech industry since women have been under represented in the tech workforce. We have a lot of work to do to realize our potential as a truly diverse and inclusive community. We help them source the right knowledge and skill as well as advice and opportunities from peers and experts both within and outside our Hub. Together we can build a community that thrives because of its diversity, where everyone has a chance to create and benefit from the technology that we build to solve global problems.