Help review my evidence for Exceptional Promise please

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MANDATORY CRITERIA EVIDENCE:

:white_check_mark: MC1 - Media Recognition

  • Featured on Nigeria’s #1 radio station (8M+ listeners)
  • Invited to national kids broadcast platform
  • UK-based developer podcast interview
  • Google Developer profile verification

:white_check_mark: MC2 - High-Profile Speaking

  • Google DevFest speaker (2024 & 2025)
  • 6 developer community events across West Africa
  • 5,000+ combined audience reach
  • Google speaker badge + profile verification

:white_check_mark: MC3 - Organization Growth

  • Led technical development of platform with 2.4M+ users
  • 220,000+ app downloads
  • International user base (UK, USA, Africa)
  • Technical leadership role at funded organization

OPTIONAL CRITERIA 2 - MENTORSHIP & COMMUNITY:

:white_check_mark: BuildGems Program

  • 50+ students mentored (6-month structured program)
  • Mentees placed at leading tech companies
  • Third-party organizational validation
  • 19,000+ minutes of mentorship documented

:white_check_mark: Google-backed Women Techmakers

  • Certificate of mentorship from Google initiative
  • 30+ participants in structured cohort
  • Independent reference letter from program ambassador

:white_check_mark: Boys Lead Foundation

  • 1,000+ global participant reach
  • Certified Global Boys Mentor credential
  • Hands-on technical mentorship delivery

:white_check_mark: Open Source Contributions

  • GitHub contributions to developer community
  • Open-source components adopted by others
  • Educational content creation (YouTube, tutorials) 5k views , 1k followers

OPTIONAL CRITERIA 3 - PRODUCT COMPANY CONTRIBUTIONS:

:white_check_mark: Startup 1: Technical Leadership

  • iOS architect at $5M+ funded startup
  • Web3/blockchain integration expertise
  • Partnership with major blockchain platform
  • 300+ commits, significant codebase ownership
  • CEO recommendation letter

:white_check_mark: Startup 2: Entrepreneurial Achievement

  • Solo founder + engineer of mobile app
  • Scaled to 19,000+ users
  • 5.0 App Store rating
  • Successful acquisition & exit (with legal documentation)
  • Industry publication features

:white_check_mark: Current Role: Healthcare Technology

  • Lead architect at health-tech company
  • Top contributor to mobile platform
  • Specific technical achievements (architecture, optimization)
  • Current employer recommendation letter

RECOMMENDATION LETTERS:

:white_check_mark: 4 Credible Recommenders:

  • CEO of $5M+ climate-tech company
  • Founder/CTO of platform with 2.4M+ users
  • Chief Operating Officer of health-tech company
  • CEO with experience at $1B+ companies
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You have a good sets of evidence. If is not clear how you plan to demonstrate this evidence as each have multiple documents, how do you plan to fit them into 3 pages? Also it is not clear the dates and periods you had this contributions, is it just 2024 and 2025?

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Thanks for your feedback

i try my best to fit the necessary details in the three pages

contributions are from 2021 in terms of companies

media recongition, mentorship, speaking from 2024

plus i am planing of using 4 OPTIONAL CRITERIA 3 evidence, and 3 MANDATORY evidence i have high salary excluded because its regionally

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hi @Francisca_Chiedu do the reference letter have to come signed?

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Yes you have to get all your letters signed. Preferably ask them to use docusign or digital signature platforms with trail.

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Thank you but that means the pages would be more than 3.

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The digital signature trail is not part of the 3 pages

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Neat, That’s great. Thank you

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Hi @tunde1234, trust you are okay.

You have so many evidence sets to work with, but to be honest, most read like very high level descriptions. Let’s dive into the review.

MC1 Featured on Nigeria’s #1 radio station (8M+ listeners) MC is not about you being featured. In fact, anyone can be featured simply by buying a show or time slot. So this should be about you being featured because you are an expert or a potential.Can you show the invitation letter? What did you speak about? The video, picture, clip on their social media page, and the reach of your feature, not the 8M media outlet metrics.

Invited to national kids broadcast platform, same thing here. Why were you invited? Also note that being invited to speak to people who are not your peers doesn’t show recognition for MC. It can work for contribution to the sector if you present it to align with that criterion. The same applies to the “UK‑based developer podcast interview.” What is the why behind this? What evidence are you showing to back your claim? For Google Developer profile verification, any developer can have their profile verified, it doesn’t necessarily mean the person is an expert or has done something significant in the last five years. In short, it simply means Google has verified your real identity as a developer.

DevFest! Most Google DevFest events call for speakers, where interested speakers send in proposals, and the selection is not necessarily because a developer is an expert. While this can be okay, it has been dismissed in some recent applications.

“6 developer community events across West Africa with 5,000+ combined audience reach” these will be reviewed based on individual evidence, so I suggest you present them separately, even if on the same evidence set. This shows continuous and sustained speaking engagement, which can be okay.

MC3 How did you lead the technical development of a platform with 2.4M+ users? User adoption is more of a commercial or sales effort, so you need to prove how you led technically. Then a letter from an executive can attribute the sales and adoption to you, backing your technical claims. App downloads do not show how you led the development of a platform.

Yes, you have done very well. However, your high level description will not give the required detail needed to provide a proper review or suggestions.

All the best.

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thanks for the feedback @Raphael
for MC1 i was invited to speak about mobile technology and career patheways within the digital technology sector
i attached a link to my live recording of my talk
showed a screenshot of invitation mail also

kids fm is for youth and kids not just kids i was invited with a senior engineer from moniepoint not only me this time to talk about technology as a vaible skill for youth, reason i used as recongntion among my peers
invitation email has both our names
attached a recording also to my talk

i have digital awards of dev fest speaker badges on my profile 2024 and 2025

MC3 i have reference letter from the senior manager and aslo featured on the foundation blog backing my claims, and github commits.

For Devfest i cant talk about all the events i spoke in but i did hightlight 2024 and 2025 showing recongition because 2025 i was invited to be a speaker and panelist.

Uk podcast its a developer organisation invited me as guest speaker along side the organiser to talk about mobile frameworks Comparison.

i attached the invitation mail and also showed third party recongition on the group social media post about my impact after the talk

planing on speaking in build with AI a google event then use it as MC4 to show recongition from 2024 - 2026

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Thank you for the added context. I still encourage you highlight and backup your claims with how you led the technical direction and contributed beyond the sales and user adoption outcomes.

All the best.

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Ok thanks for your feedback