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About SDEN

The AI partner
that makes you independent.

SDEN is a remote-first partner that makes organizations worldwide AI-native: we train your teams, advise on where AI is worth it, and build the AI that runs in production. The endpoint of every engagement is the same: your team owns it, and runs it without us.

Why we exist

Why
SDEN exists.

Most organizations don't lack ambition about AI. They lack a path to owning it. The market is full of vendors who sell AI transformation and then keep it: a polished proposal, an impressive demo, then a system only the vendor understands, that the client pays for indefinitely and never controls. The gap between buying AI and being able to run it is where most AI initiatives stall, and it is why teams who have inherited a 'finished' AI system from a vendor flinch when the next one walks in the door.

SDEN exists to close that gap. We teach your teams about AI, develop the AI your business actually needs, and integrate it into how you operate, for organizations willing to become AI-native. The same senior people who scope the work train your people, build the system, secure it, and run it through launch, then hand it to your team to run. There is no offshore bench, no junior shuffle, no architect-on-paper who disappears after the contract is signed, and no black box you can't maintain without us. We take you from understanding AI to mastering it in-house, across three offers: Training, Audit & Consulting, and Build & Run.

How we work

How we work
the short version.

Small senior team. No junior bench. No offshoring of the work we sell. The same people from the first architecture diagram to the production release. Four deliberate engagement phases (scoping and architecture, design and prototyping, development and hardening, delivery and support), each producing concrete artifacts you can walk away with. Code in your repositories from day one. Documentation written for the next engineer who joins your team, not for the project manager to file.

The long version is on the approach page. The disciplines are not unusual: code review on every change, end-to-end type safety, security as a posture not a phase. What is unusual is that we mean them, and we have the codebases to prove it.

Where we are

Remote-first, global,
deployed where your data must live.

SDEN is a remote-first partner that works with organizations worldwide. We deploy in your region (US, EU, Canada, or wherever your data must live) on AWS, GCP, or Azure, depending on the workload and the residency requirement. We align to the regime that applies to you: GDPR and the EU AI Act in Europe, SOC 2 / CCPA in the US, PIPEDA and Quebec Law 25 in Canada, set per engagement whenever the systems we ship handle personal data.

Region selection follows the data-residency case, which is documented and signed before launch; we will not silently change the hosting region or jurisdiction on data we are responsible for.

Who we work with

Any organization serious about
becoming AI-native.

SDEN works with any organization serious about becoming AI-native: a real decision-maker, a clear outcome, and the will to own what gets built. Size, sector, and geography are not filters: a fifty-person company starting its first AI training and a mid-market team rebuilding a core workflow are equally at home here.

We say no to exactly one thing: building you a black box you can't run without us. No staff augmentation, no body-shopping, no dependency dressed up as a partnership. Our job is to make you independent: every engagement is scoped so the knowledge, the code, and the judgment end up inside your team.

The team

The senior engineers
behind every delivery.

SDEN is delivered by the people on this page. No offshore bench, no junior shuffle, and no account manager between you and the engineers building your product.

Sami Dzogang
Kevin Dissang
Miguel Onana
Rick Kendem
Samuel Nguessam
Gilles Kouebou
Daryl Ngako
Elie Makoda
Sami Dzogang

Founder & CEO

Kevin Dissang

Chief Technology Officer

Miguel Onana

Founding Engineer, Mobile & Web

Rick Kendem

Founding Engineer, Cloud Computing

Samuel Nguessam

Founding Engineer, AI & Data

Gilles Kouebou

Founding Engineer, Cloud & DevOps

Daryl Ngako

Founding Engineer, Product & Design

Elie Makoda

Founding Engineer, IoT & Embedded

Let's get to work

Got a project worth building?

Tell us about your project. We work with a limited number of clients at a time, and we'll get back to you within 24 working hours with a first engineer's read, no commitment.

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