Summary
Hodo Aden is a founder and product design leader based in Oslo with 10 years of experience blending UX, product strategy, and social impact. He has led design teams at Adyen to launch embedded finance products and bankcard issuing portals, and helped build fintech ventures and an AML platform at Finstart Nordic. His master’s thesis work involved designing an Open edX MOOC for DHIS2, reflecting long-standing commitment to tech for low- and middle-income countries and humanitarian aid. At Norges Røde Kors he co-created Nyss, a real-time community health risk platform used in codeathons across Norway, Belgium and Senegal, showing his hands-on collaboration in crisis tech. Curious and socially entrepreneurial, he often bridges API-driven product design with field-focused solutions and contributes to open-source humanitarian projects like IFRCGo/cbs.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Informatics; designuse and interaction, Master's degree Informatics; designuse and interaction at University of Oslo
High school General studies with a specialization in scientific subjects, High school General studies with a specialization in scientific subjects at Manglerud videregående skole
Computer Science, Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong