Wayne Gakuo
Mombasa, Mombasa County, Kenya
Summary
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SeniorWayne 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.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (37)
javascript9
material-design-bootstrap9
angular8
firebase8
css8
responsive8
angular-app8
experiences8
bootstrap8
newsapi7
ai6
google-maps6
google-map5
laravel5
typescript5
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
angularfirebaseangular-clihtml-css-javascripttypescript
waynegakuo/portfolio
Jul 2020 - Sep 2022
This is a simple & responsive personal portfolio that showcases one's but not limited to experiences, education, projects, community work, profile and technical stack. Currently Open-Sourced
Contributions:16 commits, 3 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 2 months
showcasescssjavascriptcss3experiences
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