“I wanted to play with computers”: a chat with a new Stack Overflow engineer

Ben and Ryan catch up with Nenne Adaora “Adora” Nwodo, who recently joined Stack Overflow as a platform engineering manager. From her childhood fascination with computers to her years as a software engineer at Microsoft, Adora shares her evolution as a technologist. She tells Ben and Ryan about her experience interviewing for and accepting a role at Stack Overflow, the projects she’s working on in her new role, her nonprofit work in the edtech space, and how she prioritizes happiness in her career choices. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/12/17/i-wanted-to-play-with-computers-a-chat-with-a-new-stack-overflow-engineer/

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