Chi-chi Ekweozor
Job:
Founder and CEO
Company:
Assenty Ltd
I'm a female founder and software engineer. I built and maintain an interactive platform for asking and answering questions before, during and after events at assenty.com.
I am...
Creative
Disciplined
Random-ish
The skills I use most in my job...
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
HTML/CSS
The most interesting thing I've worked on in my career so far...
Nearly three years ago, I decided to tackle the problem of getting questions from an audience up onto a screen during a Q&A session and ended up creating Assenty, an interactive platform for asking and answering questions before, during and after events.
What inspired me into digital and tech...
I wanted to have a stable career that would let me play music and write and record my own albums. True story! I play piano, keyboards, bass, drums. Looking back, all the effort I put into learning about the technical side of making albums made me fearless about writing software(!)
My educational background is...
I studied Electronic and Communication Engineering for 5 years at the University of York. That gave me an MEng (Hons) degree. I received a thorough introduction to engineering principles at uni. However, I taught myself the programming languages I now use on a day to day basis.
What advice I'd give to girls thinking about a career in digital and tech...
Just do it. As a girl, you have a unique way of seeing the world that gives you the power to change things for the better. Period. If you want to make something that touches people you've never met, and get paid for it, get into tech and digital NOW!
