Nikema
Sacramento, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorNikema Prophet is a software engineer and developer advocate with a decade of experience building developer-focused products and communities, currently engineering at PayPal while also advocating for learners at egghead.io. As founder of PopSchools and host of the Our Voices Podcast, she blends technical craft with storytelling, education, and community-building to make tech more accessible. Her background spans hands-on development, developer relations, and marketing roles across startups and platforms, giving her a rare mix of product empathy and technical fluency. Based in Sacramento, she brings an artist’s sensibility—rooted in commercial and advertising art training—to developer experiences, making technical learning both engaging and design-forward.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (53)
paypal10
asciidoctor9
spinnaker9
pixel8
continuous-delivery8
continuous-deployment8
preprocessing8
trend7
open-source7
pixel-art7
documentation7
frontend6
backend6
faunadb6
nodejs5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
prophen/100-days-of-code-blog
Feb 2020 - Mar 2025
Nikema's blog and learning documentation
Contributions:86 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 5 years 1 month
PopSchools/100-days-of-job-search-docs
May 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:22 commits, 4 PRs, 23 pushes in 9 days
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