Oya join me! WHAT A MAN CAN DO, A WOMAN CAN DO BETTER! Thank you! Lol! But it’s true. They are a lot of professional sectors in which the dominance of men has been abrogated by the emergence of female presence. Is it the automobile industry, aviation, repairs and maintenance? You name it! The IT industry isn’t an exception. There are women who believe in the resounding effect Information Technology has in the modern lifestyle.

Social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram or Facebook are becoming a must if you wish to start up a business promotion. Commercial websites showcase your products or services in a professional fashion. 60% of our society is involved in the Internet world and smart women are exploiting this trend. They make an income, add value and earn a decent living. Female web developers aren’t an exception. In fact, there are coders with a difference. Let’s list the Top 5 female web developers here in Nigeria. Shall we?

Ire Aderinokun

With degrees in Experimental Psychology and Law, Ire is adept at technical writing and breaking down complex concepts to be easily understood at all levels. Since starting her blog, bitsofcode, in 2015, she has written weekly articles on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. She has now contributed over 100 articles and video tutorials to the development community.

Ire is a huge advocate for open source and sharing within the development community. Wherever possible she contributes to open source projects and speaks at events to share her knowledge.

Mayinoluwa Adeyemi

Mayinoluwa Adeyemi is a creative person who is passionate about solving problems with technology. She builds Android applications and she’s constantly learning how to improve her skills. She enrolled in the Android Developer Nanodegree program developed by Udacity in partnership with Google to learn the current best practices in Android Development and  graduated in February 2016.

She enjoys sharing her knowledge at technical conferences. She has spoken at local and international developer events on topics such as Git, Material Design, Firebase, Kotlin and Android Development and a non-technical talk on how to manage university-based Google Developer Groups (GDGs).

Makinwa Olubukola 

Makinwa Olubukola is a JS or Ruby Developer and a lead facilitator at Andela. Formerly, a Lead Developer at Swap Space, reading her story on how she learnt to code 2 years back was nothing short of inspiring, sparking in me the urge to build games. She is currently ranked amongst the top developers in Nigeria by Github. 

Lynda Chiwetelu

Lynda is a Software developer, who is not about to fall out of love with writing meaningful code. She grew up mostly in the Northern States of Nigeria. No, She cannot speak any of the languages found there, yet. Some of the technologies she works well with are PHP, Javascript, HTML(5), CSS , JQUERY, Sphinx, MongoDB, NodeJS, AngularJS, Objective C, Linux Servers and Git -Version Control- in no particular order. In fact, her current favorite thing to do is create random iOS Apps in the hopes that she will end up with one she would like to publish to the App Store. If you wanted a list of all the programming languages/technologies she has written code in, you’ll have to add the following to the list:Java, C++, Python. 

Aisha Bello

A champion for the Python programming language, Aisha currently is the organizer of Django Girls (a developer workshop for girls learning and proficient in the use of Python and Django). She talks on all things Tech and Python related. She is also an Associate Systems Engineer at Cisco.

So girls if you are interested in the world of Tech, particularly programming, you have a lot of motivation to pool from these ladies aforementioned. Front end development, UI Design, UX. Whatever it is you want to specialize on. Make a choice! Choose a career. Cruise Africa!