• Awahnji Jean Awah pursues a Master’s in Data Science and AI while completing extensive multi-vendor certifications across IBM, Meta, Google, AWS, Azure, Red Hat and others.

• Orange Digital Center (ODC) trains him through its partnership with Coursera, signed in April 2024, offering hands-on programmes and continuous mentorship.

• He applies his skills in freelance development and AI practice, gaining better-paid missions, higher responsibilities and increased client trust.

Cameroonian developer Awahnji Jean Awah builds digital solutions and moves toward cloud technologies and artificial intelligence. He pursues a Master’s degree in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Institut universitaire de la Côte, where he acquires scientific and practical foundations in these fields.

Alongside his academic programme, he trains himself through web development, data-analysis projects and website creation for clients. This autonomous work allows him to test his skills against concrete business needs.

With the goal of becoming “an end-to-end AI engineer capable of designing high-impact digital solutions,” Awahnji joins the Orange Digital Center (ODC), Orange’s technology-training hub. He follows several programmes created through an April 2024 partnership between ODC and Coursera, which he discovered on social media.

He completes certifications from IBM (DevOps, Software Engineering, Machine Learning, AI Developer), Meta (Back-End and Front-End Developer), Google (UX, Data Analytics, Project Management), AWS (Cloud Architect), Microsoft Azure (Developer), Red Hat (Kubernetes/OpenShift), Microsoft (Project Management, Cloud Support), Scrum Master, and additional technical modules.

This training path, which began in July 2024 and continues throughout 2025, relies on an intensive schedule that combines practical workshops, ODC staff mentoring and professional simulations. In an interview with We Are Tech Africa, he describes the experience as “rich, practical, intuitive, well supervised by the ODC staff.”

In parallel, he works as a freelance developer and AI practitioner, a framework that allows him to apply his newly acquired skills. He says that the certifications have “strengthened my portfolio, improved my technical autonomy, increased my opportunities for freelance missions and enhanced my professional credibility.”

He states that they have transformed his “skills, strengthened my confidence and given me the tools needed to turn my ideas into real and impactful solutions.” He adds that this evolution results in “better-paid missions, more responsibilities and greater client trust.”

Looking ahead, Awahnji plans to “become a certified AI and cloud engineer, design impactful AI tools, develop scalable cloud solutions and, ultimately, create or join a technology start-up.”

This article was initially published in French by Melchior Koba

Adapted in English by Ange Jason Quenum