Summary
Marlone Akidiva is a software engineer with eight years of experience building production-grade web platforms, specializing in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and React. He played a key role at Clear Labs launching Clear Dx WGS and Clear Safety—projects that directly contributed to customer growth and helped secure a $60M Series C by improving pathogen detection workflows. Marlone combines front-end design-system discipline, accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA) and visual E2E testing foundations with backend experience in microservices, Spring Boot, GraphQL and cloud-native deployments on GCP/Kubernetes. He has a strong emphasis on testability, security hardening and data visualization (d3), delivering features like smart scheduling and robust release cycles. Early experience mentoring junior engineers at Andela and building cross-region internal tools shows he pairs hands-on coding with coaching and process ownership. Based in Nairobi with an actuarial background, he brings analytical rigor to product-focused engineering that scales in regulated scientific and food-safety domains.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Actuarial Science, Bachelor's degree, Actuarial Science at University of Nairobi
English, Kiswahili