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Yannick GBAKAYannick GBAKA

Career arc

From maintaining financial-sector web apps to scaling national public-service platforms and founding an AI product, five-plus years moving steadily toward production-grade backend engineering.

Experience

  1. Agence Emploi Jeunes (AEJ)

    Jan 2023 to Present

    Full-stack Developer, Cocody Angré, Abidjan

    Building and maintaining production Laravel platforms used internally by AEJ staff and externally by job seekers across Côte d'Ivoire.

    • Scaled the funding-windows platform to track 80,000+ projects, 86,000+ promoters, and 110,000+ archived documents, with RBAC, configurable workflows, advanced filters, dashboards, and exports.
    • Designed AI evaluation modules for project review: business-plan generation, financial analysis, risk scoring, automated notifications, async jobs, and decision-support reporting.
    • Maintained and shipped the AEJ mobile app inside an ecosystem serving 100,000+ beneficiaries.
    • Monitored Azure environments, including VMs, performance metrics, and service availability, with JIT access for secure interventions.
    • Stack: PHP, Laravel, Inertia.js, React, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Laravel Queues, PHPUnit, Flutter, Azure, GitHub Actions.
  2. Guru Learner (founder, part-time)

    Dec 2025 to Present

    Founder / Full-stack Engineer, Remote

    Founded and built guru-learner.com, an AI English-speaking practice SaaS for francophone learners.

    • Reached 220+ users across 14+ countries with speaking challenges, AI conversations, personalized feedback, and progression tracking.
    • Architected a React/TypeScript + NestJS/PostgreSQL stack integrating audio transcription, AI analysis, real-time conversations, gamification, product analytics, and admin dashboards.
    • Shipped monetization and conversion modules: plans, top-ups, referral, gifting, Paystack payments, transactional receipts, and free-to-paid flows.
    • Stack: TypeScript, React, Vite, Tailwind, NestJS, PostgreSQL, TypeORM, Google Gemini, OpenAI Realtime API, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text, AWS S3, Paystack.
  3. FX_LABS SARL

    May 2021 to Dec 2022

    Web Developer, Riviera 2, Abidjan

    Maintained and improved web applications for financial-sector clients, including a platform used for general assemblies of BRVM-listed companies.

    • Maintained Quorum Enligne, the web app used to run general assemblies for BRVM-listed companies, with a focus on reliability, availability, and security of sensitive data.
    • Automated processing of 10,000+ shareholder list entries with Python/Pandas, cutting processing time by 90%+ and removing manual errors.
    • Built and evolved Laravel/MySQL business modules: corrective maintenance, feature work, UX improvements.
    • Designed a salary-simulation web app for users to compare compensation and spot market gaps.
    • Stack: PHP, Laravel, Python, Pandas, JavaScript, MySQL, Bootstrap, Alpine.js, Ubuntu, Bitbucket.

Technical focus areas

Backend

LaravelNestJSExpress.jsPHPNode.jsTypeScript

Cloud & DevOps

AzureAWSDockerGitHub ActionsCI/CDLinux

AI

Google GeminiOpenAI Realtime APIGoogle Speech-to-TextClaude APIOllama

Architecture

Modular monolithMicroservicesHexagonalSOLIDDesign patterns

Education

Education

  • Master's in Computer Science, Software Engineering (with honors)

    CEFIVE, Centre d'Études de Formation en Informatique et Enseignement Visuel · Feb 2024 to Mar 2026

  • Bachelor's in Applied Computer Methods for Business Management (with honors)

    Université Polytechnique de Bingerville · Dec 2018 to Jun 2021