Precious Kolawole
@precillieo
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Engineering @Shopify . CS & Teaching Assistant @Carleton_U . Google Scholar '22. Road To GDE @googledevs . Data Scientist. ML Engineer. Communities @oscaileife
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Tech took me out of the ghetto! 🥳🥳
Today marks three months since I left my Medical Degree at Obafemi Awolowo University
@OAUniversity
in Nigeria to pursue a Computer Science degree at Carleton University
@Carleton_U
and resume a new role at SHOPIFY
@Shopify
in Canada.
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Literally just leaving school at 12 midnight🥹 I will become rich one day and somebody will tell me “Awwn, she is so lucky” 😏 I will give you uppercut!
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I was once gifted a laptop on Twitter courtesy of
@hackSultan
,
@OoTheNigerian
,
@josephfrank_
, and
@techgirl1908
having written code on my android phone for up to 1 year.
>>>>>>>>>
1 - 2 years later, "Hello👋 ! from my new cooking arena(workspace)🚀"
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I cannot contain my excitement😩 I saw snow for the first time today 🥹🤣❤️
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I finished seeing the movie SUITS during the holiday, and my brain picked up these few words;
- Work until you no longer have to introduce yourself.
- Goals so big you get uncomfortable telling small-minded people.
- The difference between you and me: YOU want to lose small, I
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You can't believe it. I just badged another scholarship! 😭😂🔥
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Last week, I had my first physical speaking engagement with Technovation since I arrived in Canada. I explored different app builders with a group of young, enthusiastic girls in Ottawa and taught them different types of blocks in coding.
Cheers to more of this 🥳🔥
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Took up JavaScript about 2 months ago, and I have completed about 17 projects so far🫡❤️
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I am thrilled to share that I have been selected as a 2023
@PalantirTech
Women In Tech Scholarship (North America) Recipient! 🔥🥳
This scholarship recognizes women in undergraduate studies majoring in CS and other related technical fields across the US, Canada, and Mexico 🌎
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Felt like to get a mini M1 for my extra works and here we go! 🔥❤️
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I became an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant after Spending Less Than One Year at my Canadian University 🚀 .
Like many of you, I saw many posts at the end of 2023 with people sharing victories and, perhaps, a few failures. Whenever I try to do the same, it is mostly like,
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Like play, like play, Precious Kolawole is 22 today😭.
For everything I am today, I am forever grateful to God.
I came here with nothing. But all you have given me, Jesus, bring new wine out of me.
Let me give you a snippet of how God has been so kind to me and has favoured me
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A living proof that people in tech can also dance 🙂
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Scholarships and awards have taken almost a whole page on my Resume.
Meanwhile, I am just getting started … Skrrr 😂💔🔥🔥
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I saw it live! 😭😭😭🔥🔥🔥🔥
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I moved to a new house, so I now have a new kitchen 😁✨
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For everything I have not achieved in my life, I haven't desired it badly enough!
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I just built a chat server overnight with JS. Something like a WhatsApp synch message delivery.
With Private DM and Group Chat functionalities.
Thank God for speed and wisdom >>>🧎♀️🤲
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Started learning React today! Excited for the opportunity to break more stuff 😋
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Thank you so much, HackSultan💕💕
How it started VS How it’s going.
9ja Tech twitter.❤️❤️❤️
When you see people who want to put in the work. Help them🙏🏽🙏🏽
Thank you
@SheCodeAfrica
.
Thank you
@Kolokodess
Thank you
@techgirl1908
Thank you
@OoTheNigerian
Have an amazing career
@precillieo
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Shopify takes care of my entire tuition.
@precillieo
@OAUniversity
@Carleton_U
@Shopify
@techgirl1908
@_stevenkolawole
@OluwaYettie
@kanyinsola_f
@OwojoriErnest
Are you on scholarship?
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I started my tech journey not so long ago despite so many hurdles, drawbacks, barriers, complications, inconveniences. Tell me any more words I can use to qualify this.
Those times I tend to sleep for 4 hrs every night. People gave me a new nickname "The girl with the eye bags".
Ms. Algorithm 2020 Award presented to Precious Kolawole -
@TerragonGroup
,
@retina_ai
,
@BluechipTechNG
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#DSN2020Bootcamp
#AIBootcamp
. Congratulations
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This took me the longest to announce. I have just won another scholarship as a Black/African-American woman under the Cadence Diversity in Technology Scholarship program in the United States and Canada.
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Here in person at Montreal for the Canadian University Software Engineering Conference - CUSEC’23 DAY 1 🔥💃
#CUSEC
@cusec
#SoftwareEngineering
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My second trip since I joined this team. It will be fun and busy.
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I got in, guys 🥺🥺😭 I had doubts—lots of sleepless nights. I had dreams of getting rejected 😂 My confidence could not hold it because if it didn't work out this time, I wouldn't get this again until after one year. Three years ago, I said I would do it, and now it just came to
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Inscribed in every fibre of my being is the conviction that I am going to become a Big Star🌟. I am Precious Kolawole! Remember that name, because it is going to illuminate the world 🌎
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Proud to be a lazy dev!😌
So I had a task to extract data from a bunch of paper receipts (should be up to or more than 500 pieces); so I built a program that takes in images of the receipts, processes and extracts the necessary data and saves the extracted data in an Excel file.
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Microsoft and Shopify at the same time.
Read, like and share!
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Presently converting a Python codebase and rewriting it in Java. It is sad to say that, JAVA IS A BEAST!😭😂
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I wrote my first C++ code on paper today 🤝.
I will soon get to a point in my career where there won’t be any program I won’t be able to write. 😩
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor! ❤️
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Just remembered I took some pictures the previous Sunday!
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The 2nd picture was 2021, caught in the midst of challenging yet exciting 5 rounds of interview to join Microsoft. The nerves were real, but so was my faith and confidence.
More often than not, I’ve been told, “You’re too loud about your achievements on the media.” But guess
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Bought my first Mercedes at 21!
Somebody say “Wẹrẹ nisẹ oluwa 🫴🙂”
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“Second-year Computer Science has to be the most fun”. I said what I said 🙃
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In my early days of hustling for knowledge in the tech space, I literally forgot I had hobbies and threw everything away. Everything!
But now, I feel like I'm at that stage where I can start picking them all up again. So I bought myself...
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Today, as I celebrate turning 21 on the 21st of June, I take a moment to reflect on the journey that brought me here. Long and filled with sacrifices but with new professional pictures that signify the beginning of a fresh chapter, I look forward to embracing the future! ❤️
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I drafted this bio for a speaking engagement I have in August, and I want to say, “It is giving” 😩❤️
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It is almost 2024, and in case you don't know yet. I am Precious Kolawole. I am going to become a very Big Star✨. It may not be today or even tomorrow. But someday, it will happen eventually. The whole world will see it!
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What gives you endorphins?
Me: Research. Research😭. I want to know this shit. I want to learn more. Where can I look!?
I see waves of how things are done here, and my chest is so tight. I can’t breathe 😭 I wanna cry. This is where I belong. I will become so knowledgeable,
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Now I love to go back and look at all those rejection slips; they show me I tried. And I am thankful for everybody that has played a part in getting me here. Thank you all for believing in me and my dreams.
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As a 2nd Year CS student on a 4-year Shopify internship, you’ve got to be on top of everything. It’s been one month since I got my first smart desk from
@autonomousdotai
and frankly, I couldn’t have imagined going through the semester without it.
Being able to switch between
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Check this😄.
From Enthusiast to Intern!!!
I got the Internship🥳🥳😍.
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Now I'm grinning from ear to ear.
Titanic thanks to
@OoTheNigerian
for putting a smile on my face. I won't stop growing. I won't stop doing better.
I'm using this medium to thank
@hacksultan
for this. No word is enough to show my appreciation.
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I got featured in the Women In Technology Spotlight - Episode 76🔥; where I shared my life story during an interview with Dr. Ronke Babajide.
It was so great doing this and I look forward to doing more! 🥳❤️
Do well to check it out 👌
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🎶🎶You’re my King, You’re my Lord
You’re the mighty man of war
I’m devoted to Your praise
And forever to Your name ❤️
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She wrote a LinkedIn article about me🥺🔥
Thank you Ifunanya Onwuakpa!❤️
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I stumbled many times and fell. I feared and failed. I got tired, and sadness accompanied all my blows of rejection because life’s reality never met my expectations. But sometimes, the place you are used to is not where you belong; you belong where you believe you belong.
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I use this medium to officially announce my youtube channel,ONE STOP FOR TECH NEWBIES, designed to supply tech newbies with almost everything needed to succeed in their tech journeys, and the goal is to make sure you don't struggle as much as I did if you are starting out in tech
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Frustration management is a huge part of being a developer.
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I am Precious Kolawole🔥😍❤️
Precious Kolawole is a ML Engineering Intern at Lendsqr in Nigeria. Her interest, however, lies in the intersection of AI and Healthcare! We are super excited to have her as a mentor in our Women's Mentorship Programme!! 😁🤩
#BuildingAITogether
#Mentorship
#ChooseToChallenge
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Carry your leg, walk and talk to people who are looking like an example of the vision of where you are going.
Learn to write emails.
I know you are okay with sitting alone and doing your thing in that social gatherings, but no, don’t do that! If you like what they do, speak!
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I prepared a Welcome Video:
Subscribe, like and share and I look forward to reaching as many folks as I want to from the content I will be pushing out! The channel link is attached to my bio!
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After 6 days of working on this, my Google Search Engine Clone is 80% done!😭
I implemented the Vector Space Model and Cosine Similarity of webpages, built the Google PageRank Algorithm on the RandomSurfer Model to calculate useful webpages after a search. I have seen SHEGE😂🔥
I have to build a clone of the Google Search Engine in 3 days. Fada Lawd😭
Iku dee!🤣 Let's see how far I can go 🥹
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It's been almost two years since I learned the web dev tools in order to build my personal portfolio website. Now, I hired a more experienced Frontend Engineer to restructure and rebrand the whole website💃🔥.
Before:
After:
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I upgraded my 'kitchen' and swapped my old table with a power-packed standing desk from
@autonomousdotai
. Now I can cook while standing or sitting. Started using this desk a few weeks ago; I never thought cooking could be this comfy and flexible!🥹
Checkout the unboxing video👇
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Finally, I am delighted to share with you all my newly published life story article on Medium where I dived deeper into how I secured my first tech job as an ML Engineer after one year of learning how to code and secured two job offers from two of the world’s top tech companies
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I’d have captioned this as “I look good for a living,” but unfortunately, I am a software developer😂
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Good lord, I should get back to creating tech content 🤣🤣
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You belong here, so act like it! Coming to Canada was tough, but transitioning was the easiest. I can tell you for a fact that I didn't drop a sweat because I had always seen myself here, even before I came. My favourite quote of all time has been, “Sometimes the place you are
Day 20: No Gree for Impostor Syndrome
November 17, 2011, inside Shell’s Mega Campus in Houston:
"Where did you go to school?" I asked. "Stanford," came a reply. I chuckled and moved to the next person. "You?" I inquired. "MIT," they responded. "That's the Massachusetts Institute
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I served as a student panellist last week at the Black Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub in partnership with
@Shopify
and Virtual Ventures at
@Carleton_U
.
These young STARS ✨ identified challenges in their communities, schools, Ottawa and globally. They built technology
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Software engineers, you all better start learning tailoring.
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POV: YOU BROUGHT YOUR FRIEND INTO CODING.
Creating this short had me rolling with laughter, as it echoes experiences many of us have had. You know what I'm talking about - that moment when those closest to us finally dip their toes into coding, and all thanks to our persistent
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Google Africa to double down on my data structures and algorithms skills since I didn’t have a former CS background. I studied deeply and had about 21 mock interviews, but in the end, I couldn’t scale through and promptly got rejected.
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I started my tech journey in February 2020 without even being able to get myself proper computing devices to code. But my unquenched desire for growth created an entirely new life map and opened doors for more challenges. On the journey,
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Tech Screams Masculinity.
I may have been one of the many women who have had to spend the early phase of their careers impersonating men. This wasn't a matter of just adopting a masculine demeanour—it was a total submersion into acting and even dressing male to fit the societal
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POV: When you eventually find your own person among the oyinbos.
More pictures in the thread 🧵😜😂❤️
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It is almost a year since I was gifted this laptop by
@OoTheNigerian
and
@hackSultan
, the battery still lasts up to 8 hours.
I started working at 11 AM this morning, few minutes break in between, and I still have 40% left.
Na juju be this😂😂
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I was off to Vancouver yesterday for
@CVPR
Conference 2023, thanks to the amazing sponsorship by
@black_in_ai
🔥. To top it off, I can't imagine a better way to celebrate my 21st birthday!🥳
#CVPR2023
#BirthdayInVancouver
#BlackInAI
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When are we going to start implementing these badass linear algebra concepts in our real-life jobs!?
Orthogonality. Eigenvalues….
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Work trip is over; let's have some chill time in Montreal. Yeah, why not? 🚀💕
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Since the Shopify Dev Degree program encompassed everything I ever dreamed of and aspired to achieve, so I turned down my Microsoft offer. This is far from an easy ride! Most of my applications to transfer from Medicine and learn CS in a top-notch environment got rejected
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Happy International Women’s Day ❤️
Woman! Become a Techie Today 😂🔥
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It's been a month now since I was able to secure a laptop from
@OoTheNigerian
through
@hackSultan
and
@techgirl1908
, then the idea of having a portfolio website of my own hit my mind.
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Afterwards, my application to join
@Microsoft
ADC-W as an SWE intern was rejected even though I was sure I had smashed my final technical interviews. Sometime later, I was reconsidered for the role, but the offer came in around the same time I got into Shopify.
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Me before moving abroad: I will miss Nigerian food so much 😭
Me abroad: 👇😁
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#techtwitter
I am giving out 10 AWS Professional level certifications to 10 people.
First of its kind, never done this before. Please see the attached video for instructions, comment, "Why you should be picked to write the free AWS professional exam and what next-level career
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I never hesitate to wear my Nigerian dress in Canada - it always makes a statement 🙌🔥❤️
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First Thanksgiving Sunday in Canada 🇨🇦❤️
Nigerians in diaspora, when people ask you, “how is i.e Canada?” Send them this video 😁
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ranging from institutions in the US, the UK, Germany, and Turkey. When I later got admitted into a university with a partial scholarship, I couldn’t fund my remaining tuition, and the offer got rescinded. Even before this, it was a real ghetto!
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… A PIANO 🎉
Tech is here to stay. Don't lose your real self ❤️
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See who just became the Open Source Community Chapter Lead in Ile-Ife!!!🤩🥳💃
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I am finally going live on YouTube to answer as many questions you all might have concerning starting out in tech, career growth, schooling abroad, scholarship applications, Canada travel experience and whatnot!🔥
Date and time on flier. Stay notified💕
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I didn’t go wrong for saying that though 😂💔
“This is heaven on earth,” Nigerian lady says, as she experiences snowfall for the first time ever
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Going from Local to Global👋.
I will be speaking at the Women Tech Network Global Conference 2021, on Tue 8th June, 9:40 AM (WAT) where I'd be explaining Machine Learning in its simplicity🥳😍.
You can use the link above to register for my session🤗🔥
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People's motivations for learning to code are diverse and can vary based on personal interests, career goals, and individual circumstances.
Go to Youtube and view this new content I just shipped 🚀 What Is Your Motivation For Learning How To Code?🚀
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