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Asma'u Aliyu

Senior Software Engineer and writer based in Abuja, Nigeria, with experience at Microsoft, BBC, Norebase, and Kijiji Canada; she writes poetry and historical fiction on Hausa society.

Sep 30, 2026

AminaHOST
9:21
What project has challenged you the most over the years and why is that?
9:26
challenge okay so well maybe when i started out my career i saw software engineering as a form of challenge but i mean the past few years now for me i don't see them as a challenge but the one that i would say tested my capacity to the most was when i was working in microsoft and at that time microsoft was doing a big push because they had this virtual reality head headsets and they were trying to build softwares to use on the Yeah.
9:58
So for me, that was a whole new environment.
10:02
It was a whole other ballgame.
10:04
But for me, I didn't shy away from it.
10:07
I found it very exciting.
10:09
Thankfully, I had managers that were incredibly supportive.

12 MINS LATER

AminaHOST
22:12
Where does that come from? How did you end up doing all of this unconventional forms of fitness?

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