He is an experienced software developer with a proven track record in several companies. His company, Comparoshop, uses artificial intelligence to optimize e-commerce operations across Africa.  

Didier Tagne (photo) is a co-founder of Comparoshop, a company that uses artificial intelligence to improve e-commerce operations in Africa. Born in Cameroon, he began higher education, in 2018, at the University of Douala. He enrolled in computer science but dropped out to fully devote himself to his passion: coding.  

In 2022, he launched Comparoshop, offering business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) solutions. For consumers, the company has developed a search engine to organize specialized e-commerce websites. Its aim is to facilitate access to information on products and services available online, enabling users to compare prices, features, and customer reviews. The solution is currently only available in Cameroon and Algeria.

For e-tailers, Comparoshop offers a ready-to-use sales site. It enables users to automate product catalog uploads, improve user experience and shopping cart conversion rates, and track market trends and competition in real-time. It also helps merchants run marketing campaigns using a targeting approach.

Currently, Didier Tagne is the data scraping specialist for Egyptian cybersecurity company Buguard and a software developer for Cameroonian financial institutions Malea Investment and SAMU ATC. His professional career began, in 2020, as a full-stack developer at Net Africa SARL, an IT company that he left in 2022.  

He has also worked remotely for several other companies. In particular, he was a Python web developer for companies such as HBC (2021-2022), a company providing business services such as human resources management, and Cyberzone (2021), a cybersecurity start-up. From August 2022 to January 2023, he was a web developer with the digital agency FBK-COMPANY in Cameroon.

A beneficiary of the Africa by IncubMe program in 2022, Didier Tagne has received several national and international awards. Also in 2022, he was the winner of the Douala Hackathon organized by KELMASS SARL, the TechStars AI issued by the African Artificial Intelligence Society, and QuickDo Canada's Cybersecurity Challenge.

Melchior Koba