Adam Nagao
Senior Engineering Manager at LegalZoom
Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Nagao is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Pasadena with nine years of hands-on software and full-stack engineering experience, now leading teams at LegalZoom. He blends a lifelong curiosity for building physical systems—teaching and instructing robotics teams—with formal CS training from Cal State Northridge and an MS from Johns Hopkins, bringing hardware-minded pragmatism to software architecture. Adam has progressed from individual contributor roles to staff and senior management, shipping scalable, maintainable systems across startups and enterprise environments. He excels at turning client needs into practical products, favoring collaboration and iterative delivery that measurably ease user workflows. Known for mentoring engineers and teaching robotics, he brings a pedagogical approach to leadership that accelerates team growth. Outside of work he still tinkers with robots and prototyping, which informs his pragmatic, systems-level perspective on software design.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Pasadena City CollegeBachelors of Science, Computer Science, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science at California State University, NorthridgeMasters of Science, Computer Science, Masters of Science, Computer Science at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of EngineeringProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
karanbhamra/LegendOf490
Oct 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:40 commits, 34 pushes, 4 issues in 6 months
AdamNagao/ProgramID-Manager
Jun 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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