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Amédé Florian KOTANMI

Résumé

Engineer and entrepreneur — AI and connected devices

Summary

Demonstration profile. I design complete systems, from the sensor to the AI model, and start companies to put them in the field.

Experience

  • Jun 2022 – Present

    Freelance full-stack developer

    [Démo] Bureau d’études Zinsou — Cotonou, Bénin

    Line-of-business apps and specifications for small businesses.

    Shipped five web applications to production.

    Wrote specifications approved by clients without reservations.

    • Freelance
    • TypeScript
    • Next.js
    • PostgreSQL
    • Cahiers des charges
  • Sep 2024 – Feb 2025

    Prompt engineer (engagement)

    Beninese public agency — Cotonou, Bénin

    Designed teaching assistants for an online learning platform.

    Wrote and evaluated 40 system prompts covering six subjects.

    Set up a test grid to catch made-up answers.

    • Client engagement
    • Prompt engineering
    • Python
  • Feb 2021 – Jul 2021

    Embedded systems intern

    [Démo] Laboratoire d’électronique universitaire — Abomey-Calavi, Bénin

    Test bench for low-power sensors.

    Cut a sensor node’s standby consumption by 30%.

    • Internship
    • ESP32 (C/C++)
    • MQTT

Ventures

Education

  • Oct 2018 – Sep 2021

    Engineering degree in electrical engineering

    [Démo] École polytechnique d’exemple — Embedded systems and AI

    Honours — With honours

    Thesis — Low-power sensor network for soil monitoring

    Fictional thesis: design, prototyping and battery-life measurement of a LoRaWAN network.

    • Engineering degree
  • Oct 2015 – Jul 2018

    Bachelor’s degree in applied physics

    [Démo] Université d’exemple — Electronics

    • Bachelor’s degree

Certifications

  • April 2, 2024

    [Démo] Certification Gestion de projet agile

    Organisme d’exemple

    Credential ID — DEMO-PM-0002

    Expires — April 2, 2027

  • November 15, 2023

    [Démo] Certification Réseaux IoT

    Organisme d’exemple

    Credential ID — DEMO-IOT-0001

    Verify

Awards

  • May 18, 2025

    [Demo] Second prize — example hackathon

    Hackathon d’exemple 2025

    Fictional award, linked to the voice assistant project.

    • 2nd prize

Selected work

Skills

IoT & embedded systems
  • MQTT — Advanced
  • LoRaWAN — Intermediate
  • ESP32 (C/C++) — Advanced
AI & data
  • PyTorch — Intermediate
  • Python — Advanced
Prompt engineering
  • Prompt engineering — Advanced
Web & mobile development
  • Flutter — Intermediate
  • Next.js — Advanced
  • TypeScript — Advanced
Technical writing
  • Cahiers des charges — Expert
Project management
  • Pilotage de projet agile — Advanced
Tools
  • PostgreSQL — Intermediate

Languages

  • French — Native
  • English — Professional
  • Fon — Native

Interests

  • Precision agriculture
  • Open hardware
  • Local languages and AI