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Experience

Where I have worked

Six roles since 2019, several of them overlapping. Each one states its nature so the timeline reads honestly.

  1. Lead Backend Developer

    Colisgo

    2025 — PresentPart-time

    I designed and built the entire backend architecture of the Colisgo ecosystem — mobile apps for Android and iOS, the web platform and the administration dashboard — and I run the hosting server it all depends on.

    • Designed the backend architecture serving three clients at once: mobile (Android/iOS), web and admin dashboard.
    • Deployed and maintained the hosting server, from provisioning to day-to-day operations.
    • Defined the API contract shared by every client of the ecosystem.
    • Node.js
    • Express.js
    • MongoDB
    • Next.js
    • Flutter
    • Docker
    • Linux
  2. CTO & Co-founder

    AfreeLink

    2023 — PresentCo-founder

    Co-founder and technical lead of AfreeLink, a pan-African freelance platform. I took the product from modelling to production: architecture, implementation and deployment of the public site and the application.

    • Full technical ownership: modelling, architecture, implementation and delivery of the ecosystem.
    • Shipped and operate two production surfaces — the public site and the web application.
    • Self-hosted infrastructure on Nginx / Ubuntu that I provision and maintain.
    • Node.js
    • Vite
    • React
    • MongoDB
    • Nginx
    • Ubuntu
  3. Full Stack Developer

    NumRise

    2025 — 2026Freelance

    Freelance delivery of three production client projects, from build to deployment.

    • Delivered Complexe MUNDI — hotel, sport and seminar venue in Yaoundé.
    • Delivered Andylix — a platform connecting craftspeople with clients.
    • Delivered Patrimony Life Financial — a life-insurance site for the Canadian market.
    • Next.js
    • React
    • Vite
    • Node.js
    • Bootstrap
  4. IT Specialist / Web & Desktop Developer

    Saveurs du Monde

    2024 — 2026Full-time

    Sole technical resource of the company: I built its websites, developed the desktop management software, and ran the entire IT estate.

    • Built and maintained the company websites, including saveursdumonde.cm and saveursducameroun.com.
    • Developed desktop management applications, notably the point-of-sale system.
    • Ran the full IT estate: equipment, systems and day-to-day maintenance.
    • Managed the Facebook and Instagram presence of the company and its festival.
    • WordPress
    • PHP
    • C#
    • MySQL
    • Meta Business Suite
  5. IT Specialist / Trainer

    OneClick — Académie du Digital

    2022 — 2024Employee

    Ran the organisation's IT unit and taught office automation and programming.

    • Managed and maintained the whole IT unit of the organisation.
    • Taught programming — HTML, PHP, C# — and office automation.
    • HTML
    • PHP
    • C#
  6. Junior Web Developer

    Orelex Tech

    2019 — 2022Employee

    Where it started: writing modules inside larger applications and testing my colleagues' code.

    • Wrote modules for the company's larger applications.
    • Ran integration tests on modules written by colleagues.
    • Kept the company's equipment operational.
    • JavaScript
    • PHP
    • MySQL

Education

  • Professional Bachelor's in Management Computing

    ISTAG

    2021 — 2023

    Top of the class

  • Higher Technician's Certificate — Information Systems Management

    ISTAG

    2021 — 2022

    Second nationally

  • GCE A'Level — Science

    AMASIA Bilingual High School

    2016 — 2018

  • First-aid certificate

    Croix-Rouge Cameroun

    2019 — 2020

Languages

  • French · Native
  • English · Fluent
Contact

Let's build something reliable

Tell me about the system you need. I read every message.

  • Email

    jeffreychoguen@colisgo.org

  • Location

    Yaoundé, Cameroon · remote

  • Languages

    French · English