Nithya Menon
Head Of Product & Technology at Okra Solar
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolNithya Menon is Head of Product & Technology at Okra Solar with 11 years of engineering and product experience focused on off-grid energy solutions for marginalized communities worldwide. A Harvey Mudd graduate, she blends embedded systems, IoT firmware, and full-stack software expertise to architect power-sharing algorithms and grid management platforms that prioritize affordability and sustainability. She has led product strategy across deployments in India, Myanmar, Mali, and Cambodia, translating human-centered design into resilient hardware-software products for last-mile energy access. Early-career roles at social enterprises like Proximity Designs and myAgro shaped her practical, field-driven approach to engineering for development. A longtime advocate for women in STEM, she represented Okra in winning IEEE’s Empower a Billion Lives award—an indicator of both technical rigor and real-world impact. Based in Porto, she brings a rare combination of hands-on technical depth and mission-driven product leadership.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), ENGINEERING, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), ENGINEERING at Harvey Mudd College
English, French
Github Skills (36)
mysql7
monitoring7
grafana7
saas7
rule7
elasticsearch6
data-visualization6
go6
prometheus6
analytics6
dashboard6
flutter5
browser5
mbed4
postgresql4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NithyaMenon/laserPulseModel
Sep 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:66 commits in 2 months
ferdium/ferdium-app
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
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Contributions:4 comments, 2 issues in 7 months
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