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Chif3n

About

I'm a nurse who taught himself to build software, and I work in the space where those two overlap, which turns out to be most of where healthcare actually breaks.

Nursing showed me the front line: what a ward runs out of, what a form doesn't ask, what fails at two in the morning. Software gave me a way to fix some of it instead of just charting it. Between them sit the things I spend my time on now, building products, running research, writing about what I learn, and shipping the occasional client site to keep the lights on.

The work spans more than one lane on purpose. A blood-donor network that lives in WhatsApp. A 387-person study on whether health workers here are ready for AI. A trilingual platform for coordinating beach cleanups. Health chatbots for an NGO. An offline-first tool for nurse interns. Different surfaces, same instinct: build for the ward, the power supply, and the language that actually exist, not the ones a demo assumes.

I'm early, and deliberate about it, learning, building, and putting things in front of real people every week. The goal was never to write more software. It's to build health technology that survives contact with an African hospital on a bad day, and to keep doing it at a bigger scale than the last time.

Chifen Sama N.

Chifen Sama N. Registered nurse, developer, based in Buea, Cameroon.

Off duty

Outside the ward and the laptop: chess, anime, picking up a new language for fun, music, and any excuse to travel somewhere new. I'm messy about process and dead serious about outcomes, I don't have much patience for rules that don't have a reason behind them, and I'm fairly obsessed with the idea of making this big. Delusional, maybe. It's worked so far.

The route here

  1. 2020

    Founded Ayodah

    Started a blood donor platform to close the gap between patients in urgent need and voluntary donors.

  2. 2022

    Won the Silicon Mountain Challenge

    Ayodah took the prize, and kept growing to more than 400 registered donors and 310 donations across three partner hospitals.

  3. 2022 to 2024

    HND Nursing

    Clinical training while running innovation and community projects on the side.

  4. 2025

    Moved deeper into digital health

    Organised health innovation work and shifted from building around healthcare to building inside it.

  5. 2026

    BSc Nursing, and LifeDrop

    Top-up BSc through Gracious Higher Institute of Excellence, mentored by the University of Bamenda. Finished the AI clinical decision-making research at Buea Regional Hospital, launched LifeDrop, and placed third in the MTN YaMo Pitch Season 4.

  6. Next

    Master’s in health technology

    Postgraduate study in health technology or digital health, peer-reviewed publication, and health-tech ventures that work across more of the continent.

Awards

Certifications

  • Certificate of Training Completion

    The Tony Elumelu Foundation

  • Certificate of Business Management Training

    The Tony Elumelu Foundation

  • UNLEASH Hack Talent, Certificate of Participation

    UNLEASH

  • Medical Abortion Course for Providers

    International Planned Parenthood Federation

  • Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)

    Teacher Record

  • Advancing the Role of Women in Politics

    Regional Leadership Center East Africa

What I work with

Healthcare

  • Clinical nursing
  • Emergency care
  • Health education
  • Clinical research

Research and data

  • SPSS
  • KoboCollect
  • Excel
  • Data analysis
  • Scientific writing

Technology

  • React Native
  • Next.js
  • Astro
  • Tailwind
  • n8n automation
  • Prompt engineering
  • AI workflow design
  • Git and GitHub
  • Figma

Communication

  • Content strategy
  • Brand development
  • Social media
  • SEO
  • Copywriting

Get in touch

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