“I am currently making plans with some of my peers back home continue an organisation that we started called Compfuture to bring about awareness of the importance of taking computer science as a major for people leaving high school and also providing them with career guidance.”

Masasa

Home country: Lesotho
University: University of Notre Dame, Class of 2023
Major: Computer Science
Ashinaga Proposal Topic: Computer Education College

I am a software engineer who aims to improve computer literacy and programming in my home country through education and creating technology companies.

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Experience:

◦ I have had the privilege of interning at Google, 1st Source Bank and worked at policyEngine as a full stack developer for a year.

Professional Interests:

◦ In the short term I want to develop my career as a software engineer. My long term career goal is to set up a tech school back in Lesotho that teaches the youth about programming and tech in general.

Skills:

◦ Proficient in Full stack development in Java, python and React