Dara Okwodu
Product Design, Global Payments at Arcade
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDara Okwodu is a product-driven design and software leader with nine years of experience shaping fintech, media, and creator-focused platforms across startups and global teams. At Netflix, she currently leads product design for Global Payments, blending engineering rigor with user-centered design to power creators. Previously, she built and advised ventures across Africa and beyond—as founder/editor of Afriquette and as a Design Advisor at Arcade—helping startups thrive in emerging markets while fostering creative communities. Her background spans The Browser Company and Netflix's Content Media design leadership, with prior product and software roles at Microsoft, Twitter, and Intel, giving her a rare end-to-end perspective on product, design, and engineering. Based in Los Angeles and a UT Austin CS alum, she leverages cross-cultural leadership to turn ambitious ideas into delivered, scalable experiences. Dara combines entrepreneurial grit with a deep technical foundation to ship compelling products for creators and diverse audiences.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Yoruba, Spanish, EnglishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
daraoke/Simple-Tweets
Aug 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 1 year
daraoke/codepath-todo
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 21 days
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