Adora Nwodo
Engineering Leader, Platform Engineering
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdora Nwodo is a Platform Engineering Manager and Cloud & AI leader with a decade of experience building scalable, reliable systems and guiding monolith-to-modular transformations at companies like Stack Overflow and Microsoft. She blends architectural leadership with organizational design, driving ownership models, observability, and “you build it, you run it” culture to accelerate product teams and improve resilience. As founder of NexaScale, she’s grown a global learning community of 11,000+ technologists by simulating real engineering workflows to make tech careers more accessible. Her background spans distributed systems for Microsoft Mesh, startup engineering at Shortlet, and ongoing AI research at Georgia Tech, reflecting a rare mix of production-grade platform work and cutting-edge ML exploration. Currently based in Houston, she’s pursuing an MBA while advising startups, signaling a strong tilt toward scaling teams and technology with strategic business acumen.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford LEAD: Corporate Innovation, Stanford LEAD: Corporate Innovation at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessBachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of LagosMaster of Science MS - Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), Master of Science MS - Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
English
Github Skills (39)
android-app10
kotlin-android9
kotlin8
android8
java8
android-development8
kotlin-language8
cors8
react7
azure7
sailsjs6
py6
blockchain5
laravel5
microsoft-azure5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
AdoraNwodo/would-you-rather-app
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
Contributions:29 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
AdoraNwodo/AdoraNwodo
Dec 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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