Alexi Akl
Chief Technology Officer at Speedlane
Lebanon
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAlexi Akl is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with nine years of experience driving engineering strategy and delivery for US-based clients from Lebanon. He leads a distributed team of 20+ engineers at Speedlane, staying hands-on with system architecture, cloud operations, and DevOps while balancing speed, quality, and cost. Comfortable across the full stack—from PHP/WordPress and Node.js to TypeScript, React, GraphQL, and AWS—he blends pragmatic engineering with lightweight processes that keep teams productive. A regular contributor to open-source tooling, he improved a WordPress+React starter by adding Docker, GraphQL examples, and robust PHP resolvers, showing his appetite for developer experience improvements. Known for mentoring, hiring top talent, and translating business needs into technical trade-offs, he focuses on secure, scalable, and maintainable systems that support sustainable growth.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Lodz University of TechnologyTechnical University of Denmark
English, Polish, Arabic, French
Stackoverflow
1,942reputation
141kreached
20answers
2questions
Github Skills (20)
graphql-api10
wordpress10
wpgraphql10
headless-cms10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
react10
nextjs9
php9
docker8
dockers8
firebase-cloud-messaging6
firebase6
swing6
avfoundation6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
postlight/headless-wp-starter
May 2018 - Dec 2021
🔪 WordPress + React Starter Kit: Spin up a WordPress-powered React app in one step
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 36 commits, 27 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alexi primarily focused on enhancing the WordPress + React starter kit by implementing new features, migrating to Docker, and improving the overall user experience. They added a GraphQL React example along with a WP PHP resolver and improved documentation. The user also addressed several bugs, including errors related to key mapping and token expiration, and updated the code to align with new PHPCS rules.
reactjsboilerplatewordpressrest-apireact-wordpress
postlight/robo-chart-web
Feb 2019 - Aug 2020
📊 Transform Google sheets to pretty charts!
Contributions:58 commits, 7 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 6 months
chartsgoogle-sheetscharttransformsheets
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