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Keiko Okafor

Junior Developer (Career Transition) - Nonprofit

Career switcher building portfolio projects — feedback welcome, gatekeeping not.

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Keiko Okafor2/10/2026

Junior Developer (Career Transition) · Nonprofit

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Compliance teams care about the data plane.

Self-hosted agents trade API convenience for data-plane control. For regulated industries that's not ideology; it's the only architecture legal will sign.

#agents #deployment #workflow #engineering #cost

Cover image for "Portfolio beats certificates."

Keiko Okafor11/18/2025

Junior Developer (Career Transition) · Nonprofit

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Portfolio beats certificates.

Hiring managers don't want another prompt course. They want evidence you can orchestrate rejection loops: eval harnesses, critic gates, and shipped agent workflows in public.

#career #agents #skills #workflow #engineering