Summary
Kpapou Banigante is a senior software and platform engineering leader with 9 years of experience building cloud-native, backend and mobile systems from Benin. As Share Developer Manager at Gozem, he combines hands-on DevOps expertise (Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Jenkins) with API and backend development in Node.js, PHP/Laravel and Java to deliver resilient, high-performance platforms. He’s a Google Cloud–certified practitioner who has implemented and secured production Kubernetes clusters and designed CI/CD pipelines that scale across African startup environments. Equally comfortable shipping native Android apps in Java/Kotlin, he brings a product-minded approach—aligning clean architecture and maintainability with business goals. He has held technical leadership roles including CTO and platform engineer, which gives him a rare blend of strategic leadership and day-to-day execution.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer