Adora Nwodo

Founder, NexaScale, Senior Software Engineer & Cloud Engineering Author

Area of Focus: Cybersecurity Challenges and Solutions
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Adora Nwodo is a multi-award winning Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of industry experience. She currently works at the intersection of Cloud Engineering, and Developer Platforms and is passionate about the Cloud and Emerging Technologies. She is also the Vice President of the Nigerian chapter for VRAR Association. Her work there involves creating more awareness for Virtual and Augmented Reality Technologies. Apart from building and advocating for the cloud and emerging technologies, Adora is a Digital Creator and the Founder of NexaScale, an ed-tech non profit providing simulated work experience for 10,700+ software engineers, designers, and product managers. She has courses online that teaches people about Infrastructure automation, she has also published multiple articles on Software Engineering, Productivity & Career Growth on her blog, AdoraHack. She also has a YouTube channel (Adora Nwodo TV) where she posts tech content that could be useful to Software Developers. Adora is an alumna of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business LEAD. She has also been featured by Logitech, TechCabal, ChannelsTV, The CXO Magazine, Techpoint Africa, and more. In 2023, Adora won the WomenTech Network Software Engineering Leader of the Year award, and she was also nominated for the Future Africa Awards Prize for Education. In January 2024, she won the Change Maker of the Year (Tech) award at the Impact Leadership Global Award in Dubai, UAE. In March 2024, she was also recognized as a Top Software Engineer by the Association of Top Professionals in New York, USA. Adora is the Author of the popular book "Cloud Engineering for Beginners". This book is currently helping a lot of people start their career as Cloud Engineers. She is also the author of “Beginning Azure DevOps, ” a book published by Wiley, and “Confident Cloud,” a book published by Kogan Page. Adora spends a lot of her time on Twitter and LinkedIn sharing about her experience as a woman in tech. She is extremely passionate about the developer community. She co-organizes community events, and speaks at technology conferences worldwide.