Martin Åkesson
Senior Product Owner at IKEA
Malmo, Sweden
Summary
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SeniorMartin Åkesson is a Senior Product Owner with 12 years of experience building and scaling SaaS products for digital logistics, currently shaping product strategy at IKEA. He combines hands-on technical fluency—from APIs and QA automation to developer experience—with user-centered work improving enterprise service management and customer journeys. Martin has repeatedly bridged support, product and engineering teams to introduce processes (QA, onboarding, help centers) that measurably improved release quality and customer success. His background includes driving integrations and digital infrastructure requirements for manufacturing (GKN Aerospace) and leading ServiceNow-driven UX initiatives for INGKA. Based in Malmö, he favors a holistic problem-solving approach, balancing tactical details with long-term roadmaps and cross-functional alignment. He’s as comfortable in a support ticket deep-dive as he is prioritizing portfolios and defining MVPs for complex multi-department products.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Swedish, English
Github Skills (47)
python10
automation10
ansible10
infrastructure-as-code10
devops10
ssh10
prompt9
impersonation9
scanner9
network-configuration9
url-parsing9
bash9
zsh9
url-parser9
powershell9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
c0rner/dotfiles
Feb 2015 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 31 pushes, 6 branches in 6 years 6 months
c0rner/rego
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:33 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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