Michael Akanji
Generalist at Outin
Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolMichael Akanji is a pragmatic generalist and principal software engineer with 11 years of experience building user-centric web products from ideation to production across startups and growth-stage teams. He’s led frontend architecture and migrations (Notably Next.js and Node upgrades), shipped SEO and accessibility improvements that moved metrics, and designed UI component systems and advanced navigation that reduced onboarding friction. As co-founder/CTO he grew an app to 5,000+ users and now iterates on a major V2 informed by direct user research and analytics. Comfortable across backend and frontend stacks, he pairs rapid prototyping with production-grade engineering—often enabling business pivots by integrating marketing sites and auth on the same domain. Based in Lagos, he’s as likely to mentor junior engineers and establish CI/CD pipelines as he is to refactor payment logic to prevent duplicate transactions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at National Open University of Nigeria
French, English, Yoruba
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Github Skills (42)
transaction10
artisan10
laravel-api10
payment-integration10
payment-gateway10
react-component10
ubuntu10
virtual-hosts10
paystack10
bash9
php9
payment-processing9
laravel-framework9
social-media9
php-library9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
matscode/melio
Jun 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
matscode/paystack-laravel-sdk
Jan 2021 - May 2025
Contributions:1 release, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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