Alumni
Eric Khumalo
Founder and Chief Executive at Emzini weCode, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
Grew up in Gwabalanda and sat his A-Levels at Mpopoma High, the same school the clubs now run in. Read Data Science at UC Berkeley as a Mastercard Foundation Scholar, interned at Twitter across three summers, and has worked as a data scientist and privacy engineer since. Teaches CS7 himself and leads the Professional Training Track.
This profile is published by Eric, who chooses what appears on it. Claimed August 2026.
The journey
Eric at Emzini weCode.
Everything Eric has done with us, in order. Somebody can hold several roles at once, so a year can appear more than once.
- role Staff
- role Staff staff
Writing
By Eric, on the blog.
What we are actually reading for in an application
No prior coding experience, no entrance exam. So what is the short written answer for? Here is what a strong one looks like and what a weak one usually has in common.
Why we built our own grader instead of buying one
Feedback that arrives a fortnight late is not feedback, it is a receipt. Everything about Poseidon follows from that one sentence.
What a sliding scale actually means
Our sliding scale is not a discount. It is a redistribution, and explaining it honestly means naming what a place actually costs.
Why it is called the house
Emzini means the house. Not the school, not the academy, not the bootcamp. The house. That choice was deliberate and it still governs how the place runs.
Also in the network
People who came through with them.
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