About

“Her perspective is sharp, specific, and holistic…[She] helped us get into a prominent accelerator and secure pre-seed funding.” - Joel Aguero, Founder, Studio Flurry (previous advisee)

“Omosola is a uniquely multitalented leader…At every stage, Omosola offered calm and creative technical expertise and guidance…I’d work with her again in a heartbeat.” - Amanda Cormier, Head of Content, Clue (previous coworker)

“Omosola is a rare breed of engineer who can connect business, users and technology whilst being hands-on in development…[her] roaring motivation to solve problems for people and extremely good communication skills makes her an immense asset for any company wanting to get a product to market…She is impressively fast at picking up new tech and fashioning solutions.” - Duana Stanley, Lead Developer Consultant, ThoughtWorks (previous manager at Clue)

The LONG AND SHORT OF IT

The Short

Omosola Odetunde is an interim executive (in CTO and Head of Engineering roles), an advisor to early-stage startups and CTOs, and the founder of Meli, a product for mindful goal-setting. Over more than a decade in leadership and as an engineer, she has led and/or built countless products for companies like MovingWorlds, MedHaul, LegalOS, Clue, Shopify, Babbel, Chegg, and as an academic researcher. She holds Master’s (AI - Natural Language Processing) and Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University with honors. She is passionate about building great, socially beneficial products.

The MEDIUM

Omosola Odetunde is an interim executive (in CTO or Head of Engineering roles); an advisor to startups and CTOs, offering strategic advising around tech, product, and R&D; and the founder of Meli, a new product for mindful goal-setting. She is passionate about building great, socially beneficial products.

Omosola has more than a decade of experience as an engineer, contributing across product development (from User Experience to Front End, Backend, and Infrastucture), as well as years in leadership that she calls upon to tackle all types of day-to-day and high-level needs for entrepreneurs and companies. She worked as the interim Head of Engineering for MovingWorlds (www.movingworlds.org), interim Head of Engineering and Product for MedHaul (www.gomedhaul.com), interim CTO for LegalOS (www.legalos.io), and as an ongoing advisor to the CTO at Ecosia (www.ecosia.org). She has also advised countless other companies and startups over the past years.

As an engineer, she was and still is, versatile, wearing many hats, including Front-end, Backend, User Research, Data, and UX Design. She has used this diverse set of skills to build countless successful projects and products for companies like Clue (e.g. as the technical director and lead engineer of Content/helloclue.com), Shopify, Babbel, Shopkick, Microsoft, and as an academic researcher.

She earned a Masters degree in Computer Science with a focus on Natural Language Processing/Artificial Intelligence from Stanford University, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Stanford University with honors.

The Long

Omosola Odetunde is an interim technology executive (in CTO and Head of Engineering capacities); an advisor to startups and CTOs, offering strategic advising around tech, product, and R&D; and the founder of Meli, a new product for mindful goal-setting. She is passionate about building great, socially-beneficial products and holds great importance on understanding end-users and their needs as a core part of the engineering process.

Omosola is a versatile engineer and regularly wears many hats, including Front-end, Backend, User Research, Data, and UX Design. Recently, she served as interim Head of Engineering for the social impact startup MovingWorlds (movingworlds.org). As an interim technology executive, she has also served as the interim Head of Engineering and Product for the medical transportation company MedHaul (gomedhaul.com), served as an advisor and consultant to environmental search engine Ecosia (ecosia.org), served as the interim CTO of Legal OS (legalos.io), and she has advised countless other companies and startups on engineering, product development, AI, architecture, fundraising and investor due-dilligence preparation, engineering management practices, and much more.

Before going full-time as an interim executive and advisor, she worked at the female health startup Clue as a technical lead and engineer, where among other achievements like the Symptom Forecaster, working in the offices of the CEO and CPO on new product explorations, and designing an onboarding program for the Backend team, she acted as technical director and lead engineer of the new content product line, leading technical development (and budget) from concept to production of the company’s first content platform, helloclue.com, which now supports over 5 million monthly visitors and has become one of Clue’s primary channels for acquisition and monetization. She has also built and led countless projects with Shopify, Chegg, Babbel, Microsoft, Shopkick, as an academic researcher, and more over more than a decade as a software engineer.

She earned a Masters in Computer Science from Stanford University with a focus in Artificial Intelligence (Natural Language Processing) and a Bachelors of Computer Science in Human Computer Interaction, also from Stanford University.

Omosola brings her varied skills and backgrounds as well as her enthusiasm for growing and mentoring engineering talent, to lead, manage, and contribute throughout the product development cycle, whether that is holding architecture reviews, leading user research sessions, designing wireframes, hiring engineers and developing onboarding programs, defining product vision and strategy, or setting up DevOps infrastructure. She is determined to use her skills to spread as much good in the world as possible.

Selected honors

United States Presidential Scholar
Google Anita Borg Scholar
AAUW Selected Professions Scholar
Kleiner Perkins Engineering Fellow
Stanford Phi Beta Kappa
Stanford Tau Beta Pi
Stanford Dean's Award for Academic Excellence
VMWare & Zynga Senior Project Technical Awards