Halima Olapade
Software Engineer at Hadu
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHalima Olapade is a product-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable systems at major tech companies and through her own startup. She spent nearly a decade at Google before joining Meta, bringing deep product and engineering experience across large-scale cloud and consumer services. As founder of Hadu, she connects tech experts to accelerate African founders and has hands-on experience turning local problems into scalable product solutions. Her background in research software engineering and mentoring through Africode demonstrates a strong blend of academic rigor and community-driven leadership. Based in New York, she pairs enterprise engineering chops with a track record of mentoring and program-building that amplifies underrepresented talent in tech. Colleagues describe her as equally comfortable shipping production code and orchestrating networks that help others launch successful companies.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering at Drexel UniversityWest African Senior School Certificate, West African Senior School Certificate at Zamani College, Kaduna, Nigeria
English, Yoruba, French, German
Stackoverflow
31reputation
11kreached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (24)
bootstrap9
javascript9
responsive9
css9
sass9
html9
react7
lightbox7
apollo6
typescript6
mobile-first6
jquery6
meteor5
backend5
graphql5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
WikiDiggly/Diggly-Back-End
Jan 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:1 release, 49 commits, 34 pushes in 4 months
backend
ola-halima/GraphXT-Parser
Feb 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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