Michael Akindeju
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Senior Software Engineer at Benmore Technologies

I build mobile, web and backend products end to end, and I ship them fast. AI writes most of my code. I write the spec, review every diff by hand, and own everything that goes out.

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Michael Akindeju

Based in Nigeria, building with teams across the US and Africa.

5+

years shipping production software for fintech, AI and consumer products, mobile to cloud.

15+

apps live on the App Store and Google Play that I have built or maintained.

3M+

people use apps I have worked on, across Nigeria’s digital lending ecosystem.

2

days from an empty repo to Wòjú with chat, HD video calls and notifications.

Wòjú

Games with friends, played in your chats and watched live. Built by one engineer, first version in two days.

Wòjú on the webWòjú on the web
Wòjú on a phoneWòjú on a phone
2 days
to a working v1
143
releases in 25 days
3
platforms: web, iOS, Android
1
engineer, with AI agents

What it does

  • Ludo, Chess, Whot!, Ayo, Draughts, Sea Battle, Mafia, trivia and more, started right inside a chat
  • Live Games: watch friends play move by move, comment, then tap Play this to play the same game
  • Play vs Wòjú, a built-in opponent at easy, medium or hard
  • Daily Word and Daily Trivia, with streaks and a daily leaderboard
  • Hand your seat to a friend mid-game, and share wins as a link or an image
  • Encrypted chat, voice and video calls, and Vibez to talk while you play
  • Sparks, invites and referrals, plus an admin console with an audit log

How it was built

A Go and PostgreSQL backend, a Next.js web app, a React Native app for iOS and Android, and the games themselves, each a small web app the server referees, all from one repo. I wrote each feature as a spec, AI agents wrote the code, and every diff was reviewed by me before it shipped.

Go, PostgreSQL, WebSockets, WebRTC, Next.js, React Native, Swift, Kotlin, Cloudinary, Firebase

Open Wòjú

25 days, 143 releases.

Every release shipped with a changelog entry. Here is how the product grew.

  1. Day 1

    Oct 5, v1.0

    Launch

    Video calls and chat, on the web, iOS and Android.

  2. Day 2

    Oct 6, v1.1 to 1.14

    Fourteen releases

    Notifications, voice notes, replies and reactions, native incoming calls, HD calls with filters and picture-in-picture, and Status.

  3. Day 3

    Oct 7, v1.15 to 1.19

    Run it like a product

    Admin dashboard, friends and message requests, streaks, @mentions and nicknames.

  4. Day 5

    Oct 9, v1.20

    Shuffle

    Swipe to meet someone new.

  5. Day 6

    Oct 10, v1.21 to 1.32

    Private by default

    End-to-end encrypted messages, delete for everyone, Wòjú Community, link previews and sharing.

  6. Day 7

    Oct 11, v1.33 to 1.38

    Always reachable

    Notifications when the app is closed, device management and the Android download.

  7. Day 8

    Oct 12, v1.39 to 1.41

    A new look

    Continue with Google, a redesign and a FaceTime-style self view.

  8. Day 9

    Oct 13, v1.42 to 1.43

    Open to the world

    A homepage for the web, and control over who sees your personal details.

  9. Day 13

    Oct 17, v1.44 to 1.45

    Simpler, and private

    View once for any message, and points became Sparks while streaks went away.

  10. Day 18

    Oct 22, v1.54

    Wòjú Games

    Games you start inside a chat, with the server keeping every move fair.

  11. Day 21

    Oct 25, v1.59 to 1.60

    Games up front

    Games move to the front of the app, with voice while you play.

  12. Day 24

    Oct 28, v2.0 to 2.2

    Live Games

    Watch friends play live, play vs Wòjú, four new games, Daily Word and Trivia.

  13. Day 25

    Oct 29, v2.3

    Polish

    Add friends from their profile, go live again, and Whot! by the rules.

How I build

I treat AI as my engineering team. I write the spec, agents write the code, and I review every diff myself before it merges. That is how Wòjú went from an empty repo to video calls, chat and notifications in two days, and how I keep shipping production code at a pace that used to take a whole team.

Toolbox

  • TypeScript
  • React Native
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • Go
  • PostgreSQL
  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Rust
  • Flutter
  • Python
  • Django
  • Redis
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • WebRTC
  • GraphQL
  • Firebase
  • Docker
  • Claude Code
  • AI agents
  • App Store Connect
  • Google Play Console
  • Figma

The commit record.

2,847 contributions since 2022, most of them in private client repos. GitHub counts them all.

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  5. 20261,417

1,535 in the last 12 months

Snapshot from GitHub on Oct 17, 2026, across 81 repositories. See the profile

Where I have shipped.

  • AI-powered custom software development company helping 100+ companies deploy software the right way.

    • Built GO-180, a veteran transition platform with 25+ modules across employment, financial, housing, insurance and more
    • Migrated the platform from Heroku to AWS (VPC, RDS, Redis, S3, EC2) with zero-downtime CI/CD, cutting costs by 58%
    • Created custom agent skills and orchestrated AI agents to speed up delivery, with rigorous code review to hold production standards
    Visit Benmore Technologies

Education

Federal University of Technology, Akure

I started at FUTA in 2018 in Meteorology and Climate Science and held a 4.50. In 2023 I switched to Software Engineering, rebuilt from the ground up, and graduated in 2026 with a 4.65.

  1. 4.50/5.00

    Meteorology and Climate Science

    2018 to 2023, where I started

  2. 4.65/5.00

    B.Sc. Software Engineering

    2023 to 2026, switched fields and finished higher

Selected work.

Store apps, side projects and APKs on Google Drive and GitHub.

Hiring? Let’s talk.

Mobile, web or backend, I can own it end to end and ship it fast. Send a note and I will reply within a day.

akindejuhmikel@gmail.com
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