Kim Hellbom is a London-based Co-Founder & CTO with 11 years of experience building products at the intersection of HR, employee experience and AI. He leads Kinfolk, an AI HR Coordinator that automates up to 70% of employee requests by integrating with HR systems and surface answers in Slack, Teams and SMS—reducing admin while keeping no-change adoption for teams. Previously he scaled engineering and product delivery at Beamery and led engineering & experience teams at makepositive, pairing hands-on frontend chops with product-led architecture. Kim’s background spans founding design and dev consultancies to advising startups and serving on boards, reflecting a blend of entrepreneurial grit and organizational leadership. He’s especially focused on translating HR processes into automations that free teams for strategic work—a practical obsession that drove Kinfolk’s selection to Focal’s demo day.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Product Design Engineering, Product Design Engineering at Middlesex University
Bachelor of Arts - BA Online Media and Culture, Bachelor of Arts - BA Online Media and Culture at Arcada University of Applied Sciences
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