Michael Ishola
Engineering Manager at Sawport Inc
Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolMichael Ishola is a Full Stack and AI Engineer with 8 years of experience designing and shipping scalable web, mobile, SaaS, and real-time communication platforms across fintech, collaboration, and AI domains. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Laravel, React, React Native, NestJS, WebRTC and modern AI engineering—having built production-grade LLM workflows, agentic tooling, and automation systems. At Sawport he progressed from Lead Engineer to Engineering Manager, shaping backend architecture, Docker-based deployments, CI/CD, and secure video/chat integrations for financial customers; at CollabNow he led backend work on an LLM-powered Meeting Assistant that automates calendar sync, notetaker bots, and intelligent meeting insights. A competitive Andela AI fellow and active open-source contributor to the Laravel/React ecosystems, he blends mentorship and team leadership with pragmatic product delivery in remote-first environments. Based in Lagos, he’s also exploring blockchain and game development, signaling a strong appetite for emerging tech beyond his core stack.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
National Diploma, Computer Science, National Diploma, Computer Science at Gateway ICT Polytechnic SaapadeBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at CS50
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Github Skills (200)
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react-redux10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
binkode/laravel-chat-system
Mar 2021 - Nov 2022
Simple Laravel Chat Library
Contributions:11 releases, 8 reviews, 113 commits in 1 year 8 months
laravel-chat-packagelaravelchatlaravel-chat
whatsnum/webservice
Feb 2020 - May 2020
whatsnum backend
Contributions:7 PRs, 156 pushes, 12 branches in 3 months
backend
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