From Intern to Engineer with Terraform: An African Automation Journey

See how Deimos is helping young Africans (especially women) to grow from intern to engineer with the help of HashiCorp Terraform.

»Our Motivation

Helping young African women enter the Information Technology World and balancing the gender representation (US: 75% Male | 25% Female)

»Problem Statement

It is extremely difficult for young women to break into the Information Technology space. Information Technology industry is predominantly a male industry with numbers ranging from 70% | 30% to 85% | 15% depending on the country.

»Approach

Deimos has partnered with SheCode Africa (SCA) and designed a SRE curriculum around HashiCorp Terraform. We then take the top candidates into a paid internship for six months, where they are exposed to real clients and work with a cast of experienced engineers and Hashicorp products (primarily Terraform) to successfully scale, deploy, and support the client's applications in the cloud.

»Results

After our most recent internship, all 4 interns had progressed to the point that they were offered full time employment with Deimos, and the current crop of interns are shaping up to be even more successful.

Our presentation will introduce some of these interns and young engineers, where they will discuss their journey, their use of HashiCorp products, and they will perform a demo showing what they have built to support some incredible African technology companies.

»Takeaways

- Deimos is using HashiCorp technologies to uplift not only young African women, but African companies in the technology space.

- IaC is one of the most important factors behind our success, helping clients into the cloud in Africa, and Terraform is the driving force behind a lot of how Deimos achieves that.

- Interns and young engineers are quickly able to make a meaningful contribution in maintaining highly available, scalable, and secure applications in the cloud — with Deimos and HashiCorp technologies.

Deimos is a cloud native DevSecOps company with its roots firmly in African soil. Built by Africans, for Africans