She served as the founding chief executive officer of Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC).
[2] From 2000 until 2002, Wapakabulo worked as a Leadership Trainee & Community Organizer in Coventry, United Kingdom.
From 2002 until 2006, she worked as a research associate at LSC Group Consulting in Lichfield, United Kingdom.
In 2006, she joined Rolls-Royce in Derby, United Kingdom, as a Business Process & Information Engineering Specialist, serving in that capacity until 2011.
[6][7] Between 2014 and 2015, she served as the Chief Operating Officer at The Walk Free Foundation in Perth, Australia.