Issue 02 · Building Anyway · Build With Her Magazine

From the Editors

Founders, engineers, and operators who started without permission, without the perfect résumé, and without waiting to be ready. Stories of building infrastructure, companies, and careers on purpose.

Editor’s Letter

Issue 02 picks up where Issue 01 left off. The contributors in these pages did not wait for the right moment, the right title, or the right credentials. They built anyway.

You will read from women who left medicine, food science, biochemistry, and networking to build the systems the rest of the industry depends on. You will read from founders who shipped the company instead of waiting on the diagnosis, the funding round, or the invitation.

With gratitude, The Editors

In This Issue

Leadership

The Doctor Told Me to Get Pregnant. I Built a Company Instead.

A Medical Laboratory Scientist was told by her doctor to get pregnant to escape her hormonal symptoms. That dismissal became the founding moment for FEMME Health Companion, and a reckoning with how the tech industry has quietly built systems that treat women's bodies as an afterthought. This is what building differently actually looks like.

By Muji Bekomson·June 18, 2026·5 min

DevOps

Cloud

01

Cloud
Learning Tech While Life Is Still Happening
By Amarachi Nnadi ·June 20, 2026·2 min·Contributor

DevOps

02

Cybersecurity

03

Infrastructure

04

Infrastructure
How I Built an AI Native SRE Company Without Being the Engineer in the Room
By Krati Gaur·June 19, 2026·6 min·Contributor

Platform Engineering

05

Platform Engineering
From Biochemistry to Data Platform Engineering: Choosing the Hard Path on Purpose
By Feyisayo Ajiboye ·June 19, 2026·8 min·Contributor

Leadership

06

Career Journey

07

Founders & Entrepreneurship

08

Founders & Entrepreneurship
From a Mother's Struggle to Building a Connected Pediatric Healthcare Ecosystem .
By Nishita Thakur·June 30, 2026·4 min·Contributor

Personal Branding

09

Personal Branding
DON'T FIT IN A BOX, BREAK OUT OF IT & BUILD YOUR OWN
By Jyoti Dixit·June 19, 2026·10 min·Contributor

Community & Impact

10

From Stories to Patterns

BWH Reports examines patterns across the larger body of stories published by women in the magazine, the kind of shape that only appears when many issues are read together.

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Contributors

Muji Bekomson
Omolade Funmilayo Akinwumi
Evangeline Obeta
Praise Imafidon
Chiamaka Chielo
Jyoti Dixit
Chinelo Mediatrix Ufondu
Krati Gaur
Feyisayo Ajiboye
Maureen Mojabeng Direro
Emmanuella Udeh
Amarachi Nnadi
Maureen Mojabeng Direro
Rohini Chaudhari
Stella Ojiuba
Oluchi Faith Amadi
Kopal Dixit
Manisha Sarkar
Jessica Flynn
Rachel Kennedy
Maneesha sajeev
Adeela Rashid
Tanisha Shah
ADEPOJU ESTHER ITUNUOLUWA
Kopal Dixit
yara kornfol
Eunice Benu
Marian Bolous
Nishita Thakur
Rahab Durkwa
Adedayo Oyetunji Oluwayemisi
Maliha Khalid
Haripriya Veluchamy
Adeyinka Oluwasayo Esther
Dorothy Kenyatta
Sokhna Diarra Diouf
Anitha D
Eunice Benu
Emily Reynolds Kelley
Evangeline Obeta

Publication

Build With Her Magazine

Issue 02 · June 18 – July 2, 2026

Full masthead

Building Anyway

The Doctor Told Me to Get Pregnant. I Built a Company Instead.

Designing Reliable Cloud Infrastructure For Everyday Transactions

From Food Science to DevOps: How Motherhood Redefined My Path

No Tech Degree. No Network. No Plan. I Built a Cybersecurity Company Anyway.

They Said Tech Was Hard. I Took That Personally.

DON'T FIT IN A BOX, BREAK OUT OF IT & BUILD YOUR OWN

Learning Tech While Life Is Still Happening

Designing Reliable Cloud Infrastructure For Everyday Transactions

From Curiosity to Cloud: The Inspiring Tech Journey of Adedayo Oyetunji

What My Version 2.0 Looks Like?

I Was Told Tech Wasn't a Realistic Path. Today, I'm Helping Secure the Future of Digital Healthcare.

I transitioned into Cybersecurity for Pensioners....found SOC along the way.

How I Built a SIEM for Auditors. And What I Learned About Moving Across Silos

How I Built an AI Native SRE Company Without Being the Engineer in the Room

From Biochemistry to Data Platform Engineering: Choosing the Hard Path on Purpose

The Doctor Told Me to Get Pregnant. I Built a Company Instead.

Inspiring Malayali Women Entrepreneurs: Turning Dreams into Impact

I Built a Women's Wellness Brand Because No One Was Building It For Us

Butterfly Effect

Building Systems That Serve People

From Dakar to Paris at 17: A journey of resilience, belief and building the bridge

From Food Science to DevOps: How Motherhood Redefined My Path

No Tech Degree. No Network. No Plan. I Built a Cybersecurity Company Anyway.

They Said Tech Was Hard. I Took That Personally.

From Networking to Cloud Infrastructure: How Curiosity Became My Career

Navigating the Twists and Turns: My Unconventional Journey to Cloud Success

Start Before You Feel Ready

She Almost Quit On Day One. Today, She Is Building Confidence In Thousands

My Honest Review of the AWS Solutions Architect Exam

Building in Public as a Woman in Cybersecurity

Life Isn't Fair. I Stopped Waiting for It to Be.

Who Is Rachel? More than a job title, more than achievements — this is the woman behind the career.

I Started Before I Felt Ready And That Changed Everything

The 90% That Saved My Cybersecurity Career

Beyond the Hospital: Why I Built MamaCare

The Missing Row

Why I Almost Didn't Choose Computer Science

THIS-ABILITY: Building Visible and Invisible Bridges

My Unconventional Tech Journey

Homemaker to Builder: My Personal Branding Journey

Support is Key in Technical Work

From a Mother's Struggle to Building a Connected Pediatric Healthcare Ecosystem .

DON'T FIT IN A BOX, BREAK OUT OF IT & BUILD YOUR OWN

Shattering the Glass Ceiling Together: Our Collective Strength

The Entrepreneurial Classroom Is Not Just About Business

Africa’s digital health boom has forgotten postpartum care