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This year I picked the title "Sovereign by Design" for the panel discussion at the Developers Conference. Four panelists spent an hour and a half on one question. What does it actually take for Africa to own its digital future? Their answers covered local talent, submarine cables and GPUs, the African languages missing from AI models, and the supply chain links we forget to check.
My first talk as a Google Developer Expert in Cloud: the Linux skills that matter most on GCP, delivered to a packed room at the Developers Conference 2026 in Mauritius.
A full-day open source workshop at the Polytechnics Mauritius campus in Ébène — tracing Linux from Stallman and Minix to a Mauritian gecko on the openSUSE Leap 16.0 wallpaper, packaging FrankenPHP live on the Open Build Service, and spinning up openSUSE on Google Cloud. With Eddy Lareine and Neil Baichoo.
A Saturday morning of workshops and corridor conversations with Mauritius's developer community at SWAN HQ in Port-Louis. My own session was on Document AI and RAG for a historical newspaper archive — turning a 1955 Le Figaro into something a researcher can actually query.
On Friday 17 April 2026, I delieverd a technical workshop at the African Leadership College of Higher Education (ALCHE) in Pamplemousses. The topic: taking a Python Flask application from a developer'...
The MSCC March meetup at Klanik, IconÉbène brought 22 attendees together for two talks: Ajmal Saifudeen on Enterprise Architecture and why developers should care, and Ish Sookun on applying the 12-Factor methodology to modern PHP infrastructure with Laravel, followed by an open discussion.
Deploy a Laravel application on Google Cloud Run with PHP 8.5, connect to Cloud SQL PostgreSQL, and scale to zero when idle. A practical guide covering containerization, deployment to the africa-south1 region, and tips for handling storage, sessions, and queues in a serverless environment.
PMI Mauritius hosted an insightful session with Nadjma Rawat on professional image and personal branding. Learn how the "RAG project management framework" applies to grooming, clothing, and body language — and what your appearance says before you speak.
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