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Yannick GBAKAYannick GBAKA

Speaking

I speak, teach, coach, and mentor on backend engineering, shipping AI products, and technical English, backed by a C2 English certificate and a first prize for public speaking.

Topics

Shipping AI products solo

What it actually takes to take an AI-powered product from idea to paying users, drawn from building Guru Learner end to end.

Backend at production scale

Designing Laravel and NestJS systems that stay fast and reliable across tens of thousands of records, queues, and role-based access.

Software for the public sector

Lessons from building platforms that public agencies depend on, where reliability and data integrity are the product.

Teaching

Practical backend engineering

Walking developers through the real-world concerns production teaches but tutorials skip: queues, indexing, access control, and failure states.

Integrating AI APIs

How to wire models like Gemini, OpenAI, and Claude into real products with the engineering discipline that makes them dependable.

Coaching

Technical English for engineers

Helping francophone engineers move from reading English to speaking it confidently in professional settings, the problem Guru Learner was built to solve.

Mentoring

Hackathon teams

Helping teams scope ruthlessly and ship a working demo under deadline, informed by competing through events like Google ABI-HACK.

Early-career developers

Sharing the shift from writing features to owning systems in production, and the habits that make it sustainable.

Speaking credentials

  • EFSET English Certificate, C2 (highest level), Jun 2025
  • 1st Prize, Best English Speaker at FLAMME LINGUISTIQUE, 2021
  • 2nd place, Google ABI-HACK 2025, with 480+ participants from 15+ countries