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Career Trajectory

Experience

Active software engineering ventures and community leadership, anchored by concluded clinical data mandates. Every entry records the operational constraint, the architectural response, and the concrete outcome.

Software Engineering (Purple Track)Clinical & Health Data Systems (Cyan Track)Community & Strategic Leadership (Green Track)Volunteer & Civic Initiatives (Amber Track)

Currently Active Roles

Community & Strategic Leadership (Green Track)

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

INKWAVE ↗·Buea, Cameroon
2023 – PresentActive

Digital storytelling agency, developer advocacy studio, and tech journalism platform (Tech Chantier, The African Wave) driving regional ecosystem activations across Central and West Africa.

Effort

  • Directed developer workshops, hackathons, and community bootcamps across the Silicon Mountain ecosystem.
  • Authored technical columns on low-bandwidth architectures, offline systems, and African engineering ecosystems.
  • Established international ecosystem partnerships (e.g., ATWCE) and open-source documentation mentorship programs.

Value

  • Built a thriving network of regional developers and mentored dozens of emerging engineers into global open-source ecosystems.
  • Produced technical documentation guides referenced across regional engineering groups.
Brand ArchitectureDeveloper AdvocacyTechnical JournalismEcosystem Building
Software Engineering (Purple Track)

Lead Architect & Systems Developer

LifeDrop ↗·Buea / Yaoundé, Cameroon
2025 – PresentActive

WhatsApp Cloud API asynchronous webhook architecture for emergency blood donor matching under extreme cellular data constraints across Cameroon.

Effort

  • Architected asynchronous webhooks integrating the WhatsApp Cloud API with Python/Node.js backends and Redis queues, enabling zero-install donor triage.
  • Implemented idempotent request queues and retry policies to prevent duplicate alerts during 2G packet loss and network reconnects.
  • Engineered compatibility heuristic scoring blood type, geolocation proximity, and recency of last donation to match nearest eligible donors.

Value

  • Reduced emergency donor matching turnaround time to under 3 minutes per automated dispatch.
  • Eliminated app-store installation friction by routing triage entirely inside WhatsApp.
  • Awarded Third Place, MTN YaMo Pitch Competition Season 4.
PythonWhatsApp Cloud APINode.jsDockerWebhooksAsynchronous Queues
Software Engineering (Purple Track)

Lead Engineer

CoastClear·Limbe / Coastal Cameroon
2025 – PresentActive

Multilingual coastal waste coordination platform with computer-vision hotspot analysis for conservation teams.

Effort

  • Engineered responsive web dashboards with full localization (English, French, Cameroonian Pidgin) integrated with lightweight computer-vision models for photographic waste tagging.
  • Implemented offline-first sync pipelines allowing field cleanup volunteers to log waste coordinates without cellular reception.

Value

  • Delivered live spatial density heatmaps enabling volunteer cleanup operations to deploy resources with 40% higher efficiency.
  • Standardized waste audit data pipeline for municipal and environmental agency reporting.
Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSComputer Vision APIsi18n
Community & Strategic Leadership (Green Track)

Community Ambassador

LinkedIn Local Buea·Buea, Cameroon
2026 – PresentActive

Curating cross-disciplinary networking initiatives connecting clinical health practitioners with Silicon Mountain technology founders.

Effort

  • Organized grassroots ecosystem networking meetups across Buea.
  • Facilitated panels uniting clinical health researchers with software builders and venture leads.

Value

  • Bridged clinical healthcare professionals with Silicon Mountain tech startup founders for localized collaboration.
Community LeadershipEcosystem StrategyCross-Disciplinary Convening

Verified Past Tenures

Concluded Mandates

Completed health district leadership, digital health volunteerism, and foundational digital health platforms. All accomplishments reflect verified outcomes.

Clinical & Health Data Systems (Cyan Track)

District Data Manager & PMTCT Departmental Head

Kumba South District Health Service·South West Region, Cameroon
2025 – 2026Concluded

Supervised regional health information systems across district clinical facilities facing intermittent power and network degradation.

Effort

  • Restructured weekly facility reporting pipelines and audited electronic PMTCT registries across peripheral health facilities.
  • Implemented automated local-to-cloud sync workflows for DHIS2 reporting, replacing paper-to-spreadsheet bottlenecks.
  • Supervised patient cohort tracking from antenatal enrollment through 18-month infant HIV outcome validation.

Value

  • Automated DHIS2 local-to-cloud facility sync workflows; boosted district reporting data completeness to >95%.
  • Cut district reporting submission lag from 5 days to same-day, eliminating national DHIS2 reporting penalties.
DHIS2Health InformaticsSQL Data AuditingPMTCT CohortsOffline-First Workflows
Volunteer & Civic Initiatives (Amber Track)

Founding Board Member & Conference Lead (Volunteer)

Cameroon Innovative Health Network (CAMIHN / HETEFA)·Cameroon
2025 – 2026Concluded

Pro-bono digital health advocacy and conference leadership for Cameroonian health workers navigating technology adoption.

Effort

  • Co-founded the volunteer health-tech network; formulated youth health-tech programs and organized keynote panels for the Cameroon Innovative Health Conference.
  • Connected clinical health workers with digital health researchers across regional health boards.

Value

  • Built a structured community channel for translating health technology research into clinical practice guidelines.
Digital Health AdvocacyConference LeadershipHealth Informatics
Volunteer & Civic Initiatives (Amber Track)

Digital Health Field Volunteer (Community Gig)

Vision in Action Cameroon (VIAC)·South West Region, Cameroon
2025 – 2026Concluded

Volunteer field health data operations supporting community outreach and mobile data capture for youth health interventions.

Effort

  • Advised community outreach teams on mobile data collection tools and offline data capture for youth health interventions.
  • Deployed mobile survey tools for community health workers operating in low-connectivity rural zones.

Value

  • Ensured uninterrupted survey data capture during remote field outreach without data loss.
Mobile Data CollectionOffline-First WorkflowsField Operations
Software Engineering (Purple Track)

Co-Founder & CTO / Project Manager

Ayodah·Buea, Cameroon
2020 – 2023Concluded

Early digital health initiative addressing critical blood shortages in Cameroon via volunteer database registries.

Effort

  • Designed relational database schemas, managed early web application prototyping, and coordinated hospital blood bank outreach.
  • Conducted user research across clinical wards and emergency units to identify donor communication failure modes.

Value

  • Built early blood donor registry database schemas and validated donor response behaviors that laid the architectural foundation for LifeDrop.
  • Grew network to 400+ registered donors with 310 mediated donations across 3 partner hospitals and 5+ NGOs.
  • Winner, Silicon Mountain Challenge 2022 (Cameroon’s premier startup competition).
Relational DatabasesSystem PrototypingHealth Tech StrategyProduct Discovery

Pruned Engagements

Speaking & Civic Engagements

One-time keynote presentations, academic workshops, and civic leadership programs.

Keynote SpeakerSeptember 2026

PyCon & UbuCon Cameroon 2026

Yaoundé, Cameroon

"Building WhatsApp-Based Health Tech Networks in Low-Connectivity Environments"

Delivered live keynote presentation and automated system demonstration.

Speaker2025

SIC Conference 2025

Cameroon

"Youth & STEM Innovation in Regional Ecosystems"

Presented strategies on grassroots technical enablement.

Participant2022

YALI Anti-Corruption & Civic Leadership Workshop

Mandela Washington Fellows Alumni Association / US Embassy Yaoundé

"Grassroots Anti-Corruption, Organizational Integrity & Public Healthcare Ethics"

Fellowship training completion and public sector ethics capstone.

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