Adda Birnir
Co-Founder at Nightingale AI Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdda Birnir is a founder-led product executive with 11 years of experience building mission-driven education and AI products from zero to exit. She bootstrapped Skillcrush into a profitable, user-focused edtech business serving 20,000+ paying students and over 1M learners, achieving industry-leading placement and NPS metrics before exiting to PowerToFly. At PowerToFly she scaled product, AI matching, and revenue operations—driving 2x application growth, $500K in infrastructure savings, and deeper financial rigor across the org. More recently she has shifted into applied AI and early-stage product strategy, advising LLM startups and co-founding Nightingale AI Labs to prototype AI-first workflows. Known for combining rigorous data governance and financial modeling with human-centered design, she repeatedly turns customer insight into durable, profitable systems. Based in New York, she also brings civic perspective from a long tenure on NYC’s Workforce Development Board.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Fine Art (Photography), African American Studies, B.A., Fine Art (Photography), African American Studies at Yale University
Github Skills (11)
timber9
wordpress9
blueprint8
css6
responsive6
ruby-on-rails5
rails5
javascript5
react4
ruby4
music2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
skillcrush/RWD-challenge-code
May 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:25 commits, 3 PRs, 16 pushes in 10 months
blueprintcssjavascriptweb-designresponsive
skillcrush/101-jubilee_design_files
Mar 2016 - Feb 2017
Skillcrush 101 Jubilee Austen Design Files
Contributions:1 release, 1 push, 1 branch in 10 months
reactskillcrush
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