Summary
Kesiena Akpobome is a Senior Software Engineer based in Stockholm with nine years of experience building and operating production-grade web platforms and distributed systems. Currently at Klarna’s Tracking & Affiliation team, she focuses on system stability, service expansion, and event-driven architectures using Node.js, React, Kafka and observability tooling. Previously she led talent development and technical teams at Andela, mentoring engineers through real-world projects and establishing high-quality engineering practices across multiple stacks. As a former CTO and technical founder, she designed end-to-end architectures and shipped high-traffic products like LendMe, which scaled to hundreds of thousands of daily requests. She combines hands-on engineering with a strong pedigree in coaching and curriculum design, making her equally effective as a builder and a developer mentor. Collected across finance, talent development, and startups, her career shows a consistent pattern: turn ambiguous problems into resilient, user-focused systems while growing engineering capability around them.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Magna Cum Laude at Covenant University
Dansol High School
English, french(conversational)