Our story
Built by engineers
who made the journey.
My Next Hop is built and operated by Japa Reality Technologies Inc. — the same team behind the migration-planning platform Japa Reality. This is that story.
We were engineers in Nigeria. Targeting roles at international companies. The technical knowledge was there. What we lacked was the reps — the ability to take everything we knew and perform with it under live questioning, in front of a panel who had never met us, across a timezone, with the stakes high enough to matter.
We got the offers. The companies paid for everything — flights, relocation, the lot. We spent zero on the move.
That was our story, and performing well under pressure is what put us in position for it. But we want to be direct about what preparation can and cannot do: a sponsored offer depends on more than interview performance — visa quotas, headcount, timing, and market conditions all play a part, and they are outside any candidate's control. What preparation can do is make sure that when the opportunity is there, you are not the reason it slips away. That is the part we can help with. The rest is not a promise anyone can make.
That is one path — and it is a powerful one. But it is not the only way. Some engineers migrate first through a skilled worker visa, a points-based route, or a graduate visa — and then land a job after arriving. That path also works. It just means you need to hit the ground running: strong enough technically to get hired quickly once you are there, not after months of searching.
My Next Hop was built to prepare engineers for both outcomes. The preparation infrastructure that used to only exist if you knew the right people or could afford the right coach — available to anyone with an internet connection and the motivation to put in the reps. Regardless of which route gets you there, the interview skills are the same.
There is a third story too. A growing number of engineers using My Next Hop are not planning to go anywhere. They are in good roles — at strong companies — and they are choosing to keep their technical edge sharp. Design reviews, performance conversations, the moment the room turns to you and expects the answer: My Next Hop is the place to keep that muscle in use. The depth compounds whether you are heading toward an interview or simply making sure the one you could have tomorrow would go well.
“The interview is the gate — whether you are going for a sponsored role, arriving first and hitting the ground running, or already well-employed and simply keeping your edge sharp. We built My Next Hop because we needed it, and it did not exist.”
The team
We are a small, focused founding team. Every feature was built around a real problem — one that at least one of us has lived.
Co-Founder · Network Development Engineer
Network Development Engineer and co-founder of My Next Hop, with 10 years of hands-on depth across BGP, OSPF, optical transport, and MPLS — the protocols this platform is built to test. That depth is why the question bank is calibrated the way it is: written from the inside, by someone who has actually lived the gap between knowing a protocol and defending it under live questioning. Built both platforms from personal experience — the interview preparation tool that helped her land the sponsored offer, and the migration planning platform Japa Reality, built for engineers mapping their move. If a feature exists in My Next Hop, there is a real story behind it.
Gbenga Joseph
Co-Founder · Network & Cloud Engineer
Network and cloud engineer with hands-on experience across enterprise infrastructure and cloud platforms. Co-built My Next Hop to solve a problem he experienced directly — the gap between knowing the material and performing it under pressure in front of a live panel. Focused on the technical depth of the question bank and the realism of the interview simulations.
Our mission
To give every network engineer — wherever they are and whatever they are working toward — the preparation infrastructure that used to only exist if you already knew the right people. Whether you are targeting a new role, a sponsored international offer, or keeping your current technical edge from going cold: if the knowledge is there, the only thing standing between you and performance under pressure is the reps. My Next Hop is the reps.
Who it's for
Built for where you actually are.
Different engineers. Different goals. The same underlying challenge — turning technical depth into confident performance, whether the stakes are a job interview or a design review.
The senior engineer
Years of production experience, but the interview muscle has gone soft. You know the answers — you just need to get them out of your head quickly, clearly, and with conviction. My Next Hop gives you a place to practise at the level you actually work at, not a simplified version of it.
The candidate
Labs, certs, and coursework gave you the fundamentals — what they have not given you is the rep of saying it out loud, live, with someone pushing back on every claim you make. That is a different skill from knowing the material, and it is exactly what entry-level interviews test.
The AI Infrastructure Engineer
Network and cloud engineering experience — now targeting the fastest-growing role in infrastructure. GPU cluster networking, RDMA/RoCE, InfiniBand, ML pipeline architecture. My Next Hop's AI Infrastructure track builds the vocabulary and interview performance to match.
The Optical / Transport Engineer
DWDM, coherent optics, OTN/G.709, ROADMs, submarine cables — the physical layer that carries the internet. My Next Hop's Optical track covers OSNR budgets, coherent modulation formats, OTN multiplexing, GMPLS/SDN, and optical performance monitoring — calibrated to interviews at Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft.
The Network Security Engineer
Zero trust, SASE, BGP/DNS security, DDoS defense, incident response, post-quantum cryptography — the security bar has moved past firewall rules and VPN configs. Calibrated to how these questions land at Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Cloudflare.
The AI Infrastructure Security Engineer
GPU cluster isolation, model supply chain integrity, training pipeline security, inference endpoint hardening. Covers real, dated incidents interviewers now reference directly — a 2022 PyPI supply-chain attack on PyTorch, a 2024 GPU container-escape CVE — not hypothetical scenarios.
The engineer who already has a good role
You are not looking for a way out — but technical depth that goes untested goes cold. My Next Hop gives you a place to exercise it: defend design decisions, stay current with the protocols that matter, and keep your interview vocabulary sharp for when the right opportunity appears.
The engineer targeting an international role
You are in Nigeria — or elsewhere in Africa — and you know the move is possible. Sponsored offer, skilled worker visa, points-based route — both paths work. What they share: you need to be good enough to get hired under real interview pressure. My Next Hop builds that candidate.
Built and operated by Japa Reality Technologies Inc.
japareality.com
My Next Hop is built and operated by Japa Reality Technologies Inc. — the same team behind japareality.com. My Next Hop builds the interview skills that hold up under real questioning — whether the offer comes before you leave (sponsored role, company pays for the move), you arrive first through another visa route and need to land a job quickly, or you are already in a good role and simply determined to keep your technical edge sharp. Japa Reality is where you discover which migration routes are actually open to you — based on your finances, age, education, profession, and family situation. Some engineers have more options than they realise. Japa Reality finds your routes. My Next Hop makes you hireable for the destination you choose — and formidable in the role you are already in. Both platforms are built by the same founding team, from personal experience.
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