About Stan
**Digerati | Tinkerer ** is the most concise way I, Stanley Ndagi, choose to describe myself.
Welcome to the long version of it, below.
TIP
Reference is at the bottom for any word with an asterisk (*)
Who am I?
Stan
- 🇰🇪 is Kenyan (by birth)
- 🌍 identifies as a global citizen
- 💻 mostly works remotely
- ✍️ enjoys writing
- 🥾 likes the outdoors (hiking, camping)
- 🙏 is a believer of Jesus Christ (More)
What do I do?
Personal Mantra
Invoke the builder within and serve
What does this mean?
Besides being a creative (building stuff and tinkering) I choose to go beyond self, and work on impacting others. More specifically work-wise, I thrive as an enabler, inventor, and galvanizer (based on the 6 Working geniuses by Patrick Lencioni* )
This mantra reminds me of this identity; calling me to action!
Building & Serving
- Software engineering
- Teaching (wholesomely breaking barriers, real or imagined!) - technical writing is an expression of this
- Leading - Taking up Leadership opportunities
- DIY - Do It Yourself projects
- Mentoring
- ... the list continues (It's a lifelong journey)
TechKln community, a tech-savvy community hailing from Kenya with members globally is a brainchild of mine.
Publications
In the media
Speaking on Open Source while at DockerCon 2018 - by TFIR.
Narrating a day in my life as a software engineer - by Andela during my days working there.
Personal Projects
- VueDjango - A VueJS-Django-Webpack boilerplate. Read more about VueDjango here.
- Lifebuoy - A Visual Studio Code extension
Find more on my GitHub profile
Written pieces
- My author page at CircleCI's blog
- Sections of Paymentology's developer docs
- Article at Andela's blog
- Technical tutorial at ScotchIO
- My other pen strokes can be found on my blog, TechKln's blog, DeveloperISH blog and Medium
Et al - miscellaneous
I share the following, chiefly, to give further insight.
'Fandom' - people and initiatives I fancy/ follow
I'm not the stan* kind of a fan (bad joke 😅) but here's my non-exhaustive list:
- Bible Project (Bible) - I've written more about the Bible Project here.
- YouVersion (Bible & tech) - I've written more about YouVersion here.
- Nutrition Facts (health)
- MKBHD (tech)
- Living Big in a Tiny House (DIY & minimalism)
- Never too small (minimalism)
- Get Hands Dirty (DIY)
- Marvel (entertainment)
- FreeCodeCamp (learning)
- Code.org (learning)
- CS50 (learning)
- Extra Credits (learning)
- Science Vs (science)
- Oversimplified (history)
- Two Cents (financial literacy)
- Financial Diet (finance)
- Business Insider (finance)
All time favourites
These cut across learning, entertainment, insight and DIY
- Testimony Channel (spiritual enlightenment)
- Myles Monroe (living, leadership, and empowerment)
- Learning How to Learn
- HACKING GOOGLE series
- Tania Rascia's philosophy of learning in public
- Riding a bike backwards 😆
- Rain Gutter generator
- How Does The Earth Spin?
- Smart Home insecurity
- Think like a coder
- DIY 'desk PC'
- Science Vs | Circumcision: Why Are We Doing This?
Where else can I be found?
This is my home in the WWW*. You can find me around the web at:
- GitHub: NdagiStanley
- Twitter: NdagiStanley
- LinkedIn: NdagiStanley
- Facebook: NdagiStanley
- Codementor: NdagiStanley
- Bitbucket: NdagiStanley
- GitLab: NdagiStanley
- DevPost: NdagiStanley
- Youtube: NdagiStanley
- 🎧 Jam to my playlists on Spotify
- 📚 Some of my reads on Goodreads
- ♟️ Let's play a game of chess on lichess
Use any of the platforms listed here if you'd like to reach out including meeting up on a call or otherwise. 😄
6 Working geniuses by Patrick Lencioni*: find out more at workinggenius.com. This intro video gives you the gist of it and there are more resources to take peruse.
stan*: (portmanteau of Stalker & fan) a particularly, perhaps excessively, avid fan. (Reference).
WWW*: World Wide Web