Macfarlanes
Senior Full Stack Developer
Full-stack applications in secure Azure cloud environments; AI-assisted document processing tooling and monorepo architecture.
Node.jsTypeScriptReactNext.jsAzure
Available for new opportunities
Akan Nkweini
Senior Full Stack / AI-Enabled JavaScript Engineer
10+ years building scalable, production-grade web platforms across legal, media, telecoms, travel and e-commerce. Specialising in React and Next.js frontends, Node.js microservices, and modern cloud architectures on AWS and Azure.
Highlighted postyana-stocks: A Next.js Microservices Platform →Technical Expertise
Languages
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaNode.js
Frontend
ReactNext.jsReact NativeReduxTailwindCSS
Backend
NestJSExpressGraphQLREST APIsApache Kafka
Cloud & DevOps
AWSAzureKubernetesDockerTerraformGitHub Actions
Databases
PostgreSQLDynamoDBMySQLMongoDB
AI & ML
LLM IntegrationRAGPrompt EngineeringClaude APIOpenAI API
Recent Experience
Full CV →Oct 2025 – Apr 2026
Reply UK
Senior Full Stack Developer
Migrated EasyJet platform from .NET to modern Node.js and React/Next.js stack, with automated Playwright testing pipelines.
Node.jsTypeScriptReactNext.jsNestJSPlaywright
Gousto UK
Senior Full Stack Developer
Greenfield Next.js platform supporting the Gousto Ireland market launch; pair-programming, TDD, trunk-based development.
Next.jsTypeScriptReactAWSNX
News UK
Senior Full Stack Developer
Migrated betting and gaming platform to modern React/Next.js and Node.js; serverless backend with AWS Lambda.
Node.jsGraphQLReactNext.jsAWS LambdaTerraform
From the Blog
All posts →yana-stocks: A Next.js Microservices Platform
An 11-service polyglot platform for real-time stock data, portfolios and ML predictions — service boundaries, layered caching, tracing, and change-aware CI.
ops-agent: A LangGraph Agentic SRE Copilot
How ops-agent’s orchestrator delegates to fifteen scoped subagents, and the LangGraph mechanics — interrupt/resume, a CNPG-backed checkpointer — behind it.
A RAG Chatbot for the On-Prem Cloud’s Docs
What retrieval-augmented generation actually is, and how a RAG chatbot over k8s-apps’ docs was built with OpenAI embeddings and Claude for cited answers.
From Flannel to Cilium: A Live CNI Migration
The cluster didn’t start on Cilium. Why Flannel’s silently-unenforced NetworkPolicies forced a migration, and what eBPF native routing and Hubble buy you.
shared-services: A Kafka-Mediated Email Pipeline (And Whether It Was Worth It)
Replacing three duplicated SMTP2GO integrations with one Kafka-mediated email service — the Harbor robot account gotcha, and whether it was over-engineered.
Authentik: SSO for Your On-Prem Cloud
Putting every on-prem cloud service behind single sign-on with Authentik — the forward auth pattern, the auth-url hostname gotcha, and native OIDC for Grafana.
ArgoCD: GitOps for an On-Prem Cloud That Takes Itself Seriously
Sync waves, ignoreDifferences, the Argo Rollouts diff gotcha, permanent OutOfSync apps, and the valuesObject pitfall — ArgoCD on real workloads.
CloudNativePG: Running Postgres in Kubernetes
Using CloudNativePG for database-per-service Postgres — shared vs dedicated clusters, barman WAL backups to MinIO, and the kured drain gotcha.
Cilium Network Policy in Native Routing Mode
Three scenarios where standard NetworkPolicy breaks down in Cilium native routing mode, and how CiliumNetworkPolicy’s toEndpoints and toCIDR solve them.
Ceph CSI in Kubernetes: Bare-Metal Storage
Connecting a Ceph cluster to Kubernetes via the CSI driver for dynamic RBD provisioning — including the Cilium native routing gotcha that blocks OSD traffic.
Building a 6-Node Kubernetes On-Prem Cloud
What I learned building a production Kubernetes cluster at home — Proxmox, Cilium native routing, Ceph CSI, ArgoCD, and the gotchas not in the docs.