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An interface should know where its answers came from.
Anthony Gakio builds the whole application, from the Angular interface through to the services behind it, and spends the rest of his time in rooms where other developers are learning to do the same.
Nairobi — The forms came first. Then the models. Then the server that has to hold both. The work runs the full stack: the interface, the services and data behind it, the intelligence on top, and the community that has to keep all of it understandable.
I studied information technology at the University of Embu. On campus I led artificial intelligence, and then Android, for the Google Developer Student Clubs chapter. I spent a year as a technical ambassador for the DFINITY Foundation, and a season as an attaché at the Embu Law Courts, under the Judiciary’s Office of the Chief Justice. I now look after the public voice of Angular Kenya, and of Friends of Figma Nairobi.
Two talks are on the record. In March 2026, at Google’s office in Nairobi, I walked a room through retrieval-augmented generation inside an Angular application: how a screen asks a question, fetches the passages that can support an answer, and refuses to invent the rest. In May, at iHub for Angular Konnekt, I gave a gentle introduction to Signal Forms — four steps from a data model to a field tree, and a way out of the older tangle of streams.
On campus I taught the first afternoon of Android the way I wish I had been taught it, in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. The writing follows the same line. A tutorial on form signals, published with Angular Kenya. A DEV essay about Hacktoberfest that is mostly a confession about merge conflicts.
“Changing the world one console.log() at a time.”
What I want the work to do is plain. An interface should be able to show its sources. A room full of developers should leave able to build the thing they just watched.
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Angular × AI
Retrieval in the interface, and agents that cite the policy they summarize.
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Full stack
Angular and TypeScript on the screen. APIs, data, and the services that have to answer them.
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Community
Angular Kenya and Friends of Figma Nairobi, plus the campus rooms that came before.