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"HPI meets..." Alumnus/Klarna

The summer semester kicks off with a double HPI meets: Alexander Ernst - HPI alumnus - will give you an insight into the stages of his career after graduation up to the present day and present various IT projects that he has successfully implemented since then.

"HPI meets…" Alumnus/Klarna

Date: Monday, 9 May 2022

Time: 5 pm - 7 pm

Location: Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam

Alexander Ernst: "After HPI, I started my professional life at Netlight - a company that nobody at HPI knew at the time in summer 2017. I managed three different projects in my 3.5 years. I was at Akelius (real estate company) to develop an internal platform for the brokers, at mobile.de to help car buyers finance their car and finally at Klarna. There I worked on developing Klarna's first bank account and bringing it live. I've now been employed at Klarna since May 2021, and since October I've been Team Lead for a new team working on payments on campus. In the Tech Talk, I show how we wrote a rules-engine at Klarna to process standing orders and scheduled transfers. And how we took our solution from an MVP to a robust and scalable solution."