Michel Kapoko
Team Lead at American Express
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMichel Kapoko is a software engineering leader with 13 years of experience building web applications and leading teams at American Express in London. He combines a strong quantitative foundation from top French schools with hands-on expertise in Java/Spring backends and React.js frontends, and has applied domain-specific systems like Murex and ActivePivot. His background spans finance, e‑commerce, and messaging platforms, and he brings practical machine learning experience from academic work on scattering transforms to industrial tooling. As a Team Lead, he blends technical ownership with mentorship, shipping reliable services at scale while keeping a foot in research-informed approaches. Notably, he has moved fluidly between proprietary trading infrastructure and consumer-facing stacks, which gives him an unusual ability to translate complex quantitative requirements into maintainable production code.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Applied Mathematics, Master of Engineering (MEng), Applied Mathematics at Ecole Centrale ParisMaster of Science (MS), Mathematics-Machine Learning-Vision, Master of Science (MS), Mathematics-Machine Learning-Vision at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan
English, Spanish
Github Skills (1)
matlab9
Github contributions (5)
kapokmi/hoover
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
kapokmi/supermarket
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 6 days
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