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Akieni Academy 06 / TALENT

Building the
next 10,000
engineers.

A nine-month, intensive programme that bridges the tech talent gap in Central Africa · by training engineers to international standards and integrating them into live national programmes.

Mission & vision

Talent as
a service.

Cohort by cohort, we are building a pipeline of African engineers operating at international standards · and exporting that talent regionally and globally through our Talent-as-a-Service model.

MISSION

Bridge the tech talent gap in Central Africa through intensive, production-grade training programmes.

We train engineers the way we wish we’d been trained · by shipping real systems, supervised by senior engineers, against international standards.

COHORT 1 · 2025
11

talents integrated into Akieni full-time.

PROGRAMME
9 mo

Intensive, full-time, paid.

COHORT 2 · 2026
Mar

Applications open now.

VISION
→ Intl.

Talent as a Service · exporting African engineers globally.

Curriculum

Nine months,
three phases.

Each phase is anchored by a real project shipped to a real client. No toy exercises, no theoretical capstones · production from week one.

PHASE 01 · MONTHS 1–3

Foundations

  • CS fundamentals refresher
  • Git, CI / CD, code review
  • Go, TypeScript, SQL
  • Testing & observability
  • Security basics
PHASE 02 · MONTHS 4–6

Practice

  • Production codebase shadowing
  • Pair-programming with seniors
  • Real tickets, real PRs
  • On-call rotation (read-only)
  • Architecture seminars
PHASE 03 · MONTHS 7–9

Delivery

  • Owned feature shipped to prod
  • Client-facing demos
  • Programme management exposure
  • Mentorship handover
  • Integration to Akieni full-time
Cohorts

A widening pipeline.

From eleven engineers in 2025 to broader regional intake in 2026 · at the same standard.

COHORT 01 · 2025 · CLOSED
11 / 11

Successfully integrated.

Eleven engineers completed the 9-month programme and joined Akieni as full-time staff across SFEC, CAMU and CNSS teams.

COHORT 02 · LAUNCHING MARCH 2026
Open

Expanding intake & reach.

A larger cohort with selected international placements through our Talent-as-a-Service model. Applications open until January 2026.

Apply
Talent as a Service
We are not just hiring engineers,
we are building a regional export industry
for African technical talent.