Wayne Gakuo
Co-Founder & Head Of Partnerships at Unstacked Labs
Mombasa, Mombasa County, Kenya
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Top SchoolWayne Gakuo is a Google Developer Expert in Angular and a co-founder who blends eight years of hands-on frontend engineering with strategic product and partnership leadership. He specializes in architecting scalable, maintainable Angular applications and has driven measurable improvements—like a 60% load-time reduction and 30% search indexing gains—while leading technical strategy at regional startups. As an Angular trainer and community leader (GDG Pwani and Angular Kenya), he consistently turns complex concepts into job-ready skills and helps grow local developer ecosystems across the Kenyan coast. Comfortable bridging business vision and technical execution, Wayne mentors teams, designs design systems and monorepo strategies, and builds solutions tailored to African markets. An unexpected thread through his career is his sustained focus on education and impact—running training programs, capstone projects, and fintech pilots that delivered measurable social outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
KCSE, A-, KCSE, A- at Aga Khan High School, MombasaComputer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering at Ashesi University
English, Swahili, French
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Github Skills (49)
material-design-bootstrap9
newsapi8
angular-highcharts8
css8
responsive8
javascript8
experiences8
bootstrap7
angular-app7
firebase7
html6
angular6
google-maps6
use-http6
firestore5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
waynegakuo/devfestkenya
Sep 2020 - Nov 2021
The official GDG DevFest Kenya website is built using Angular & Firebase
Contributions:1 release, 59 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 2 months
gdg-devfestfirestorefirebaseangular-clihtml-css-javascript
waynegakuo/news-app
Sep 2019 - Sep 2020
An Angular app that consumes the NewsApi to provide the latest tech news. This app is meant to assist in understanding how to use HTTP modules in an Angular App
Contributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year
understandinguse-httpangular-appconsumestech-news
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