Meet Carine: The Data Scientist Who Opens Stand-Up Like a YouTube Channel

Every morning, Carine opens the team stand-up on Discord with the same line:

"Hey guys, welcome to my YouTube channel. Make sure to like and subscribe, and don't forget to turn on the notification bell."

It is silly every time. The team laughs every time. And somehow a routine morning meeting becomes something people actually look forward to.

That is Carine in one moment: completely serious about the work, completely unbothered about being the one who makes everyone smile before it starts.

She Learned the Long Way

Carine studied Computer Engineering at the University of Buea, which meant learning everything. Software, hardware, networking, operating systems, how each layer connects to the next and what happens when one of them breaks. That foundation still shows up in how she thinks. She doesn't get stuck in one lane because she was never trained to stay in one.

Before joining Camsol, she worked as a web developer at a couple of tech companies, building e-commerce sites, supporting interns, and learning what it actually means to ship work that real people use. She arrived at Camsol with range, and she uses all of it.

Now she is a Data Scientist, which on most mornings means doing the unglamorous work first. Messy datasets, broken queries, pipelines that need attention. She sits with the problem until it makes sense. She always gets there.

She Needs to See It Before She Can Fix It

Ask Carine how she approaches a problem and she is direct about it.

"I need to see the problem before I solve it."

That means whiteboards. That means breaking something large and tangled into smaller, more honest pieces before touching any of them. That means giving mess a shape before trying to clean it up. Once she has that, she gets her head down and comes back with something solid.

It is the same instinct she developed in engineering: understand the system first, then intervene. Guessing at a fix without understanding the cause is how things break again two days later.

That practicality makes her easy to work with. One moment she is building a data pipeline in Apache Airflow. The next she is syncing with the team on Directus to make sure the numbers line up. Then someone flags a stuck SQL query and their entire afternoon gets unstuck in the time it takes most people to escalate the issue.

You don't always notice her working. You just notice that things are working.

No Ego, Just the Work

Carine is comfortable showing work before it is finished. If something is unclear, she asks. If a result is off, she reworks it. If she doesn't know yet, she says so and keeps going.

There is no performance in that. No defensiveness. Just a real willingness to test, improve, and be honest about where things stand. That makes collaboration straightforward. People know what they are getting with Carine because she doesn't pretend the process is cleaner than it is.

She is also the person sending memes in the group chat at the right moment. Not as a distraction but as a reminder that the work doesn't have to be heavy all the time. She can make people feel relaxed without making the work feel unserious. When it is time to focus, she focuses. The jokes and the discipline sit comfortably together in the same person.

What She Pays Attention To

Outside of the technical work, Carine keeps her eyes on women who push for justice in tech and beyond. Not one person specifically, because it isn't about one person. It is about a pattern she finds worth following: women who build things, advocate loudly, and make room for others while doing it.

For a woman doing serious technical work in a field that still sometimes acts surprised to see her there, that's not an abstract value. It is something she lives close to. She shows up, she ships the work, and she shares what she knows with the people coming behind her.

Off the Clock

Away from Camsol, Carine moves between two very different kinds of energy.

In the kitchen, she cooks. Not as a chore but as something she genuinely enjoys, the same way she enjoys untangling a messy dataset. There is a problem to solve, ingredients to work with, and a result that either lands or teaches you something.

Then there is the dancing. Carine dances, and if you have ever seen her move you already know it is not something she does halfway. It is probably the furthest thing from a data pipeline you can imagine, which is exactly why it works.

She also still tinkers with hardware and explores digital marketing for fun, which is either a sign of genuine curiosity or proof that some people simply cannot stop learning things. Possibly both.

She pays attention to what is happening in tech beyond her immediate work. She notices who is building, who is being left out, and what it would take to change that. That awareness doesn't stay outside the office. It shapes how she collaborates, how she mentors, and how she shows up for the people around her.

One Last Thing

Carine will open tomorrow's stand-up the same way she opened today's. The team will laugh. Then they will get to work.

That combination, the laugh and then the work, is exactly what she brings. And the team is better for both.