Bilal Kathrada

About

DESCRIPTION:

Bilal is a software engineer, lecturer, author, entrepreneur and public speaker. Bilal has been in the fields of technology and education for over
20 years, in which time he has worked with kids at
pre-school level to people at post-grad level.

Bilal has worked with a number of notable companies and institutes like Vodacom, Blackberry, Morevest Group, Durban University of Technology, University of KZN and MANCOSA. His current focus is to promote Technology Integrated Learning at a higher education level through his work with Educor, and at primary school level through his work with CompuKids (an online Technology Academy for kids which he owns).

Bilal developed an educational mobile App called Ritmetic, which won the Vodacom AppStar award in 2012 and has been approved by the Department of Education for distribution to schools throughout KZN. The app is provided free of charge to schools. As a passion project, Bilal provides free online software development classes to people around the world via his YouTube channel.