After six years of professional experience, he ventured into entrepreneurship. Right from France where he spent almost all of his life, the Cameroonian-born entrepreneur trains young Africans in digital professions and supports them in their job hunt or their self-employment bids. 

Douglas Mbiandou (photo) is a Cameroonian-born entrepreneur who has been living in France since he was seven.  Right from his base in France, he founded the non-profit association 10 000 CODEURS (10000 coders) whose goal is to train ten thousand coders by 2025.  

In 2017, Douglas revealed that the Lyon-based non-profit institution was launched, in 2015, when he carried out a consulting mission for the Congolese government. “The ambition is to train 10,000 mobile and web developers between 2015 and 2025,” he stressed. 

His institution operates in Francophone Africa and in France. It facilitates the professional integration of millions of people by retraining and giving them the skills needed for digital professions and entrepreneurship. 

10 000 CODEURS provides its young members with digital education. Its training platform offers more than 800 videos on digital usage, technologies, and jobs, among others. It also has more than 450 webinars.

Before 10000 codeurs, in 2005, in France, he founded OBJIS, a firm that trains and supports young Africans in software design. With that firm, which equips startup founders with operational skills, he has already trained over 3,000 programmers. Since 2021, he is the president of Aurafrica a network that facilitates relations between entrepreneurs operating in  Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and those residing in Africa. Before his entrepreneurial journey, he spent five years (2001-2007) working as an application engineer for the IT firm Capgemini.

Melchior Koba