Ada Thurlow
President at with.parts inc.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolAda Thurlow is a seasoned software engineer turned cloud builder and entrepreneur with 16 years of experience leading engineering teams and founding cloud-focused startups. As President of with.parts and former Head of R&D and Director roles, she blends hands-on distributed-systems engineering with pragmatic leadership that prioritizes ownership, documentation, and organizational expertise. A generalist polyglot comfortable across languages and cloud infrastructure, she excels at solving novel, real-world puzzles and scaling resilient systems. She has co-founded multiple companies, advised a carbon-distributed tech firm, and contributed to open-source projects over the years—though she now keeps an archival GitHub presence while focusing on product and platform impact. Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ada is driven to leverage technology for measurable business and community benefits while empowering engineers to grow through trust and clear stewardship of the stack.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
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French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (121)
pixelfed10
activitypub10
mastodon10
webfinger10
docker10
microblogging10
federation10
django9
sdk9
sentry9
jira9
angular8
monitoring8
python8
ember8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
CloudBrewery/duplicity-swiftkeys
Oct 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:1 release, 3 commits, 2 pushes in 10 months
thurloat/docker-compose-sentry
May 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:4 releases, 18 commits, 1 PR in 10 months
docker-composedockersentrycompose
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