Nimat I. Jinadu

Nimat Jinadu currently serves as an Engineering Project Manager on the software team at Apple. With approximately 6 years in the technology field, she brings a unique background that began with an undergraduate degree in medical physiology from Nigeria. During COVID, she and friends taught themselves coding and developed a startup to improve medical access in Lagos, sparking her passion for software engineering and product management. She progressed from a software engineering intern role at a Nigerian startup to senior product manager at Odeo Accounting, all while self-taught without a traditional technology degree. Nimat is now in her first year in the United States completing her MBA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she completed an internship at Apple. She holds a Google Professional Project Management Certification, Scrum Master Certification, and Project Owner Certification. Nimat attributes her success to perseverance through self-directed learning despite pushback from family and friends in Nigeria, allowing her to work alongside computer engineering professionals at a top company. She remains committed to giving back through mentorship with Women in Tech Nigeria and Africa Tech Girls, and as co-founder of the Community Child Project Nigeria, which supports young people from lower-class communities in preparing for college success.