# Michael Abiodun

Michael Abiodun is a remote worker on Himalayas, Backend Engineer (Contract) at FHF, based in Nigeria.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@michaelabiodun1

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Laravel engineer building client apps and APIs, including a fintech bill-payments ledger with webhook reconciliation.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | Nigeria |
| Authorized to work in | Nigeria |
| Salary expectations | 40k+ USD |
| Job categories | Laravel Developer, Frontend Engineer, Backend Engineer |
| Skills | Laravel, PHP 8, MySQL, REST APIs, Eloquent, Job Queue, Horizon, Sanctum, Passports, Policies and Gates, Livewire, Filament, Pest, PHPUnit, Next.js |
| Website | https://melifolio.vercel.app |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/shipwithmeli |
| GitHub | https://github.com/LordMichaelle1 |

## About

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I’ve built Laravel and MySQL applications for clients since 2023, including a fintech bill-payments flow and top-up ledger with webhook reconciliation. I’ve also run production apps with queues, Horizon, API authentication, and tested admin workflows.

At Best Solution Polytechnic & Best Solar Energy, I built bestsolarr.com and a polytechnic platform with live Paystack payments. I’ve also worked on a Next.js marketplace, a Django REST Framework housing platform, and AI coding evaluations.
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## Experience

### Backend Engineer (Contract) (current)

FHF. Sep 2025 - Present

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Own the Django REST Framework backend for a student housing and marketplace platform. Closed live production gaps without breaking auth or the live marketplace.
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Skills: Django-REST-Framework, Python, Backend-Development

### AI Code Evaluator & Task Author (current)

Turing, AfterQuery, Snorkel, Mercor, Revelo. Jan 2025 - Present

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Authored Terminal Bench 2 tasks in Harbor format with output-checking tests. Reviewed function-calling evaluations and built synthetic Python repositories.
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Skills: AI-Evaluation, Terminal-Bench-2, Harbor, Python, Function-Calling

### Lead Engineer (current)

Best Solution Polytechnic & Best Solar Energy. Jan 2024 - Present

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Built and ran bestsolarr.com on Laravel and MySQL in production with paying customers, later migrated to Next.js, Supabase, and Stripe. Built a Next.js app for the polytechnic's public site, student portal, staff admin, and API, and a Python/FastAPI LLM customer service bot.
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Skills: Laravel, MySQL, Next.js, Supabase, Stripe, Payload-CMS, PostgreSQL, Paystack, Python, fastAPI

### Laravel Developer (current)

Freelance. Jan 2023 - Present

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Built and maintained Laravel and MySQL web apps and REST APIs for clients, from data model through deployment. Implemented bill payments, top-up ledger, background jobs, API security, admin panels, and tests.
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Skills: Laravel, MySQL, REST-APIs, Queue, Horizon, Sanctum, Passports, Livewire, Filament, Pest, PHPUnit

### Frontend Engineer

Zent Technologies. Apr 2026 - Nov 2026

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Owned the community marketplace and marketing dashboard vendors use to run real stores. Set up the shared frontend package repo with pnpm workspaces, Turborepo, and CI publishing to GitHub Packages, and caught critical bugs before release.
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Skills: Next.js, React, Redux-RTK-Query, Pnpm, TurboRepo, CI-CD, GitHub-Packages

## Education

### Federal University of Technology, Akure

Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering

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Pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering, currently in the final year.
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## Tech stack

- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Node.js
- Laravel
- Next.js
- Tailwind CSS
- Redis
- React
- JavaScript
- Python
- Rust
- Django REST framework
- FastAPI
- Fastify
- pnpm
- Stripe
- Prisma
- Horizon
- Payload CMS
- TypeScript
- PHPUnit
- Passport
- Git
- Docker
- Supabase
- Turborepo
- Alpine.js
- Harbor
- Paystack
- Claude Code
- Pest
- Express
- REST APIs
- Livewire

To contact Michael, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire).

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