I am Serge Poueme — a son, a brother. Everything else comes after that.
I was born and raised in Yaoundé, Cameroon. I moved to Montréal to study engineering — a Master’s in Industrial Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal — and stayed. But the degree is one thread among many. I am equally shaped by music, by cinema, by the memory of my grandmother’s house lit by a single oil lamp, and by the conviction that the world can be built better than we found it.
What I do
I write. I have been writing since I was a teenager — poems, novels, essays — most of which remain unpublished. This site is where some of that work will eventually find its form. In parallel, I write software. I build platforms for urban infrastructure — cadastral systems, IoT sensor networks, AI agents that orchestrate quietly in the background. The common thread across both is the same: building things that endure.
I have been publishing online since 2008 — first about Pan-African cinema with Huguette Yere on AferkiwVidi, then speculative fiction preludes on Innovation Tales, now the essays and technical reflections you find here. But the writing started long before that.
What I care about
Family. Love. Work. Helping others. Peace. In that order.
My father, Emmanuel Poueme, spent 36 years in Cameroon’s public service. He is my first role model — for his sense of family and his values. I documented his career and our family’s genealogy across four royal chefferies of the Bamiléké highlands because some things deserve to outlive the people who carry them.
I listen to music constantly. I watch films. I follow space exploration. I think about how cities are built and how they fail. I travel — not always physically, but always in curiosity.
Why this site exists
I write here because some ideas deserve a slower medium than a feed. Each essay is numbered because I think of this site as a growing volume, not a stream. I chose GitHub Pages deliberately — a repository does not expire when a hosting plan lapses.
Contact
If something resonates, I welcome the conversation: sergepoueme@gmail.com
Elsewhere, I share fragments of daily life, music, and travels on Instagram — a less structured space where the engineer takes a break.