Michael Lungu
Back End Developer at ThirdGuard
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolMichael Lungu is a pragmatic back-end and full-stack developer with nine years of experience building and migrating web and mobile platforms across education, finance, and social media. He combines hands-on work in Flutter, Laravel, NuxtJS, Strapi, Golang and Node with cloud deployments on GKE, Hasura and AWS to deliver performant systems—recent projects include migrating PHP backends to Strapi with GraphQL for 30% faster loads and shipping a voucher redemption app for Capitec. Michael has driven early-stage product wins (helping a social app reach the German App Store top 20) and built integrations spanning Moodle, Xero, SalesForce and marketing automation, showing strength in systems integration as well as UI iteration. He mentors junior developers, writes migration tooling to move MySQL schemas to modern headless CMSes, and experiments with blockchain wallets and token integrations—bringing a mix of practical execution and curiosity to hard product problems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Information Systems Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Information Systems Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at EduvosNano Degree Blockchain Development, Nano Degree Blockchain Development at UdacityInformation Systems Software Development Higher Certificate Computer Software Engineering, Information Systems Software Development Higher Certificate Computer Software Engineering at CTI Education Group
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Github Skills (49)
react-native9
android9
react-navigation9
react9
nosql-database9
realtime-database8
nextcloud8
database8
realm8
php8
java8
ios8
mobile8
javascript7
self-hosting7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mikeaxle/CoffeeShopAndroid
Sep 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:1 release, 29 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 2 months
mikeaxle/itinerary-manager-ta
Nov 2019 - May 2021
itinerary manager for true africa safaris
Contributions:4 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 year 5 months
itinerary
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