Bennett Benedict

Community Lead at Africa's Talking

Bennett Benedict has a diverse work experience in various roles and companies. In 2022, they are currently working as a Community Lead for Africa's Talking, where they organize hackathons and meetups using the company's APIs to solve African problems. Prior to that, in 2021, Bennett worked as a Software Engineer at Flexcode Labs, developing backends for different services and managing deployment infrastructure.

In 2021, Bennett also served as an Assistant Organizer for DarJS, contributing to the organization of events. From 2019, they worked as a Full Stack JavaScript Engineer at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM). In 2015, Bennett was a Software Engineering Consultant for Buni Hub.

Additionally, Bennett has experience as a Software Engineer at Ellipsis Digital Co. Ltd from 2021 to 2022. Bennett served as a Community Manager/Organizer & Mentor at Andela from 2018 to 2020. Lastly, Bennett worked as a Mortgage Loan Consultant for Nutmeg Auctioneers & Property Managers Co. Ltd from 2014 to 2018.

Overall, Bennett Benedict has a strong background in software engineering, community leadership, and event organization.

Bennett Benedict obtained a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) between 2014 and 2017. In 2018 and 2019, they pursued an online course in Computer Programming, Specific Applications from OpenClassrooms. Additionally, they obtained several certifications from OpenClassrooms, including "Breakdown and integrate a mockup" in January 2019, "Create Web Page Layouts with CSS" in December 2018, "HTML and CSS" in November 2018, "Learn How to Learn" in November 2018, "Manage your code with Git and GitHub" in November 2018, "Learn the command line in Terminal," and "Understanding the WEB" (with no specified obtainment dates).

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Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania

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Africa's Talking

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A unified API platform for software developers in Africa building SMS, USSD, Voice, Payments and Airtime applications


Headquarters

Nairobi, Kenya

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51-200

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