Michael Akakpo
Freelance Android Developer at Nomadiq Ltd
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Akakpo is a seasoned freelance Android developer with over a decade delivering mobile apps and greenfield projects for clients ranging from Google and Facebook to Barclays and Charlotte Tilbury. He blends deep technical expertise in Kotlin/Java, Android architecture, ExoPlayer/VoD and AOSP with a human-centered approach informed by ethnographic research, prototyping and UX-focused engineering. Michael has shipped high-impact features and revenue-generating apps (including a $5M launch and multi-hundred-thousand-download titles), migrated legacy stacks to modern Compose, and debugged complex platform issues across Android 13–15 and diverse OEM devices. Comfortable in R&D, enterprise and startup contexts, he’s also experienced with DRM, payment integrations, push infrastructure and embedded/NDK work for smart TVs and wearables. Colocated in London, he’s open to contract opportunities in AI/ML, FinTech, streaming and social apps and brings a pragmatic blend of curiosity and production-hardened problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of NottinghamBachelor of Science (BSc), Computing, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computing at St Gregory's Science College, London
English
Github Skills (10)
samsung9
google-play9
bit9
android-application8
android-library8
kotlin7
android6
look-and-feel1
macos1
ios1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nomadiqltd/Microbit
Feb 2017 - Dec 2023
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
MichaelAndroidYao/mini_shazam
Oct 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:9 pushes, 4 branches, 1 issue in 1 year 4 months
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