A2SV | Africa to Silicon Valley
Nahom Elias is a Software Engineer at Eskalate since July 2023 and also serves as a Co-Founder at Zema Kroch, where the team focuses on designing and developing a string art machine to enhance the efficiency and precision of string art creation. Additionally, Nahom is an Electromechanical Engineer at Belayneh Kindie Metal Engineering Complex, which is part of the Belayneh Kinde Group in Gelan Town, Ethiopia. Nahom holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electromechanical Engineering from Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, expected to graduate in June 2024, and a Bachelor's degree in Management from Unity University, completed in June 2023.
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A2SV | Africa to Silicon Valley
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A2SV - Africa to Silicon Valley is a nonprofit social enterprise that enables talented young software engineers to create digital solutions to Africa’s most pressing problems. We upskill high-potential university students, connect them with internship interviews at the world’s top tech companies, and enable them to create digital solutions to urgent problems in their home countries. The program is free for students, making the opportunity available for youth with talent but lack the means to use it. A2SV’s rigorous training program prepares students for internships with companies like Google, Palantir, and Coinbase. The internships give students the experience they need to design and build products that improve the quality of life in Africa. The first group of A2SV students achieved a 54% (12/22) success rate at Google internship interviews for summer 2021. Our training is conducted in three phases: Phase 1: Students go through a series of lectures and practice sessions on algorithms and data structures after school hours. This phase includes weekly contests, Q&As, bi-weekly 1:1s, and other technical programs. Phase 2: Students go through a 3-week boot camp, six days a week, all day. On top of phase 1 programs, phase 2 also has communication skills improvements, social activities, moonwalks, and mock interviews. At the end of Phase 2, students have internship interviews with top tech companies. Phase 3: Students and experienced mentors form development teams. Together we solve a real-world problem by creating a scalable product with a social mission to improve the quality of life in Africa. Unlike any other programming academy, we permanently incorporate students’ ventures under the organization's umbrella, going beyond training to deliver concrete impact. Offering students an ecosystem to actualize their ideas means that up-and-coming developers use their skills to benefit Africa rather than taking their talent elsewhere.