hey, I'm Chifen
Registered nurse, self-taught software engineer and researcher in Buea, Cameroon. Nursing showed me what breaks at two in the morning. Software gave me a way to fix some of it instead of charting it and moving on.
Or skip the tour: chifensama0@gmail.com
currently
M.Tech Data Science at COLTECH, University of Bamenda
research note
Asked 387 health workers about AI. Not resistant. Under-trained.
LifeDrop
3rd place, MTN YaMo Pitch Season 4
The desktop
everything's labelled, promise. it only looks messy.
Selected work
A blood donor network that lives inside WhatsApp, because that is where families already ask for help.
no install screen this time. (see Ayodah)
Field notebook · Buea Regional Hospital
→ not resistant to AI.
under-trained and under-equipped.
A 387-respondent study of what health workers actually know and feel about AI in clinical decisions, and what is really blocking it.
A cross-sectional study for my BSc dissertation. Evidence about readiness, not a clinical product.
Live2025 · ocean conservationCoastClearA trilingual platform for coordinating beach waste cleanups, with AI photo analysis and separate dashboards for reporters, cleanup crews, and NGOs.
BuildingLockedInA focus app that turns real-life goals into daily quests, built mostly because I wanted it to exist.that's v1. v2 is in the oven.
Fig. 1 · Analyst and authorMaternal health risk analysisA statistical breakdown of which routine clinical signs actually separate high-risk pregnancies from low-risk ones.
The human behind the screen
I trained as a nurse before I learned to build software, and that order matters. The gap between what a health product claims to do and what happens on a ward is invisible to people who have never worked one.
Most health software assumes reliable power, fast internet and spare phone storage. I build for what is actually there: low data, unreliable power, a phone rather than a laptop.
off duty chess, anime, a new language for the fun of it, music, travel.
Research lab
Before anyone puts AI into clinical decisions at Buea Regional Hospital, it helps to know what the people making those decisions know, think and need. So I asked them.
Into the lab →Dissertation · 2026
A 387-respondent study finding that health workers in Buea are not resistant to AI. They are under-trained and under-equipped, and they know it.
Read the findings →Side quests
before the health tech, there were drones, a tractor robot and a plastic shredder.
Notes from the build
Hiring, collaborating, inviting me to speak, or poking at the research. Pick the channel that suits you.
An AI helper. It answers from this site's content and can still be wrong.
Hi! I'm Byte. Ask me about Chifen's projects, research, studies, or how to reach him.
Prefer a human? chifensama0@gmail.com ·
