Relocating top African software developers to European tech teams, with Caspar Coding
- S3E8
- 32:43
- October 4th 2018
An interesting heuristic you can think about when considering companies operating in East Africa is where the demand comes from.
There are lots of businesses you can see where the product or service is developed in the region and ultimately is consumed in East Africa.
Through the lens of this podcast, just look to some recent episodes on Tissue Paper, Bottled Water Franchises, and Surveys.
Whilst there is certainly a strategy in serving the growing local market, there is certainly a limitation on its size.
There’s a whole different set of companies, operating from East Africa but whose end customer is outside the region.
Caspar Coding is one of them.
They work with European clients to place East African senior software developers directly in their teams.
It’s one area where there’s a huge imbalance. In Western Europe alone there are 5 million openings for senior software developer jobs and lacks the supply of local talent to fill them.
Caspar started off solving this with developers working remotely but now relocate ambitious developers directly to the European country.
Sebastiaan, the CEO, is Dutch and so the early clients have been from there.
This is a really great episode that touches on various themes in the region, such as demographics, finding product-market fit, and ultimately the power of gaining a modern skillset to grow your career.
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