Please help to evaluate my profile

Hi everyone,

I am applying for the exceptional promise category under tech for software development. Listed below are the prepared documents, please help me review my profile to evaluate. Your feedback is greatly appreciated

Profile:
I am currently a Senior Engineer currently in the UK and applying for exceptional talent promise with about 4 years and a few months old for professional experience.

Note: I can’t use my current employer as I was told it isn’t a product-led organization.

Letter of recommendation:

  1. My previous company A(CTO and Co-founder)
  2. My other previous company, a lead we worked together in company B(Now works as a Principal Engineer in the USA)
  3. From (Co-founder of a skill development & job marketplace platform for young African talents) I was a web instructor for over a year) more like a part-time role.
  4. From another lead from company B who now works as a Software Engineer at Google

MC:

  • High Salary and an Employment letter from my last role in Nigeria(currently I am in the UK)
  • You have held or hold a significant expert role participating on panels, or individually, assessing the work of others in the same field or a field of specialization related to the digital technology sector.
    • Evidence 1: Code Reviews of colleagues’ work at previous Company A (3 PRs screenshots)
    • Evidence 2: Code Reviews of works at a previous Company B (2/3 PRs screenshots)

OC1:

  • Company A : Discuss my work at my previous employer where I was the lead despite being a mid-level engineer, discuss how I was able to be part of this innovative idea in an emerging space(fintech for energy), this will include how I was able to take up the role in leading the team to ensure the product is delivered, how innovative this new product is and how I ensured this innovation was delivered within the expected timeframe
    • Evidence :
      • Discussion on the product
      • Code snippets of features I worked on
      • Proof of product UI and website
      • screenshot of the recommendation letter from CTO
  • Company B: Also discuss another product I worked on previously, for a non-profit organization,
    • Evidence Discussion:
      • I was part of the engineers who implemented version 2 of the web platform. This includes revamping the entire platform from a UI/UX design perspective as well as adding new business features,
      • We built a chatbot, which was like an innovation based on customer needs. I have screenshots of features I worked on, a video of the chatbot process

0C2:

  • Bootcamp facilitator assistant at my previous employer(outside of working hours, we were not paid for it, just a way of giving back), I have screenshots of the code review of the boot campers I mentored during this 4weeks+ boot camp program to show that. I am thinking maybe I can get a letter from the company to indicate this.
  • I was a mentor at She codes Africa(https://shecodeafrica.org/) for some weeks, and I am thinking of explaining the mentorship process(as I was told this wasn’t field advancing in my previous application).
  • My Personal initiative(started in 2021):, will explain the process, I have screenshots of calls, slack communication while mentoring these developers.

OC3:

Having worked as a key engineer in the core product of a start-up, showing evidence as to how you have contributed to its success.

Thinking of writing on the above as I am not sure my evidences for OC2 are strong enough.

  • So this would be a discussion on some key features from my last employer, can’t use my current employer as I was told it isn’t a product-led organisation
  • Get a reference letter from another co-founder in the company as a back up to my claims

My issue is how I can say with evidence how this impacted, can code snippet or screenshot of the a tool setup be enough?

@alexnk i will really appreciate your review here.

Thank you.

@Afolabi @Francisca_Chiedu @May need you guys help here, thanks a lot.