What was missing? | My Story

14 years old in my high school years I was trading as a graphic designer, it was fulfilling making extra cash independently. All I had to do was design and go to town to print out the designs, I can’t look back at the designs today to spare me the embarrassment but hey I was a pioneer, therefore, I have set the benchmark. Call it a monopoly if you will.

I always asked myself what was missing? What am I doing differently? See, where I was printing my designs they had a revenue and staff. We actually do the same thing, what am I doing wrong? I was the business, therefore, couldn’t pass the school bus test, but I didn’t care I just wanted to grow, but I had hit the ceiling. I couldn't understand what were they doing that makes them so successful.

Fast forward, as a second-year student in Computer Science and Informatics I registered Cyber Geeks it was a metamorphosis of my back then company President Production(Graphics and design). I finally answered the question “What is missing?”, three things in essence:

• Exposure, though I had a Facebook page it was only liked by my friends and family hence the business could only go that far. 
• Knowledge, I had no clue what was happening in the industry. I didn’t know how they were operating never mind having strategies in place, at least I had one I.e. to design one more calendar and get the cash. 
• Value, yes I was a good designer but it didn’t impact anyone. Let’s say I grow, who will I hire? No one had the skill in my township, the ones who knew a computer it was because of Mario Bros and typing CV’s 

Those three missing elements became the pillar of Cyber Geeks. Our duty is to inspire secure digital transformation and process automation in Africa through Software Engineering, how are we filling the different components you may ask?

• We take your business and rip off the working hours which is also exposing it in a universal scale. This means that your neighbour will not be your only client, but the entire universe can access you via a platform which can be both web or app or both! 
• We carefully choose the frameworks that we use so that there are no security loopholes left unpatched to give you the peace of mind. 
• A platform only is not enough if there is no data that is converted to knowledge which will help you better position yourself. Hence we also package it with business intelligence to put you on the cutting edge of your industry. 

As aforementioned we want to inspire what we do hence we have Geek Academy and blacksuit which is our skills distribution initiatives were we train the community so that we can have a sustainable digital ecosystem and securing it through awareness with regards to the cyber ecosystem. 

I often say I am an Entrepreneur who happens to be a geek, my entrepreneurial being heavily influenced the methodology who follow at Cyber Geeks. That is Design which speaks to purpose and meaning then Code has a certain standard we follow to make sure that it’s secured and lastly Disruptive, beyond innovation and efficiency. We driving a revolution that will give birth to new industries, and you will make a perfect partner.