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Top 15 Young Geeks - Class of 2022
Born in Vosloorus, he is a Self Taught Developer, Hackathonista, AWS Certified Solutions Architect as well as the Managing Director for a StartUp called ArtScience. Facing unemployment and the harsh reality of living in the village, he started coding from pdf books that he would download from the internet.
A year later he was participating in Hackathons and after more than 6 months of competing, him and his team won the Telkom Global Entrepreneurship Week Hackathon hosted by Geekulcha and 22onSloane(GEN Member) during the November of 2021. He is also a graduate of the MTN App Academy. Jerry specializes in Cloud Computing, CyberSecurity using languages like Python, Javascript... He is fluent in a wide technological stacks for mobile, Web and VR Development.
Currently working on a VR project for the Music Industry with his Company ArtScience which is a 100% Black owned Company. His dream one day is to create and lead uniquely African Space Exploration Company.
In just over a year, have moved from being unemployed to being the Managing Director of a Technological StartUp and because of that he believe he is the symbol of what IT, Hackathons and Code can do to transform our communities.
- Jerry Monyelo
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