Well, we did it. We overcame all hurdles, hanging in there when times were tough. We all accomplished one of the major milestones of our journey at Alluvium: Traineeship Graduation. This is a major step in our journey here, one that should be recognized for its immense significance. It is not only an act of commitment but of pride. We all worked hard to get to this day, and our effort yielded good fruit.
Before I proceed, I must commend the VIP treatment my colleagues and I have experienced since our arrival at Ado-Ekiti. We were lodged in conducive apartments, provided with 24-hour power supply, Data, and even our feeding was taken care of. This is not all, everything we needed to learn and deliver services was made available to all of us upon arrival. We were given high-performance laptops, a PowerStation, Mi-fi, and headphones amongst others. I must say my stay at Ado, has been nothing short of pleasant and comfortable.
Let me get on with what I have to say. After all, the last thing you want to do is listen to an interminable speech. So, before we go, I’d like to share my experience with Alluvium over the last 3 months. When I got accepted as a trainee, honestly, I was sceptical about what I stand to gain from the company. I was a front-end developer but on getting into Alluvium, I became acclimatized with the world of cloud computing.
I got work on platforms I had only heard of, such as Atlassian Suite: Jira and Confluence, Amazon Web Services: EC2 instance (VMware), Lambda (Serverless Code deployment) and gained some hands-on development experience. Alluvium is a migrations lab, and since I joined them only a while ago, I have been privileged to be part of not less than two robust migrations for highly respected and prestigious companies around the world. Alluvium has not only given us the opportunity to learn but also exposed us to the rigours and demands of industry-standard practices and how to deliver efficiently in a fast-paced engineering team.
On a final note, this graduation is not an end goal in itself; it is instead a part of the larger journey at Alluvium. There are more milestones that we all need to attain. We’ve already shown commitment to personal growth by making it to this ceremony today, but soon, we will experience another ceremony when we finally reach the next milestone. Life is about growing, and being in this program gives each of us new opportunities to continue growing and to learn new skills that we will carry with us for the rest of our lives. I would like to say a big thank you to my fellow graduands for making this experience a memorable one. I would like to say to everyone here that whatever we do, we should endeavour to keep learning and keep moving forward.
