Nadayar Enegesi
Nadayar Enegesi is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Eden Life, a tech-enabled services company that automates home chores. Driven by a passion for technology, Nadayar had previously co-founded Fora, an education technology platform that provides North-American online courses for African students and emerging professionals. He has a proven track record of building enterprise software across various recognized industries and platforms like OpenText, PTC, Bnotions, and others.
Nadayar obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science (Honours) in 2013 from the University of Waterloo. He has gained professional expertise across areas of leadership, entrepreneurship, engineering, curriculum development, web development and instructional design. Nadayar has also expanded his knowledge base with courses on Algorithms, Computer Security and Privacy, Operating Systems and Machine Learning.
Nadayar launched Eden Life in April 2019, primarily to improve the quality of life of the busy middle-class person who needs to get chores done automatically. He stands to leverage technology in bringing corresponding value for money and efforts put into household care with little or no supervision.
Prior to founding Eden Life, Nadayar co-founded Andela, an engineering platform in Africa that helps companies build remote teams quickly and affordably. He was also Director, Launchpad, Andela’s internal incubator for mission-critical initiatives, which developed its Entrepreneurship Centre and Senior Developer professional development programs from January 2018 to April 2019. Also in Andela, Nadayar was Director of Learning and Development as well as Director, Engineering and Training.
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At Fora, where he had previously co-founded, Nadayar managed all engineering decisions of the company as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) from July 2013 to June 2014, in order to ensure the most feasible and efficient implementations of features. One of his achievements was being an integral part of the team that developed Fora into becoming the foremost marketplace for North American online courses, specifically for African students and professionals.
Additionally, Nadayar has positively impacted several tech-based companies like Bnotions, BBS Securities, OpenText, Phoenix Interactive and more.
Nadayar Enegesi is an optimist who believes in creating strategies for quality living. His long term vision is to build Nigeria and Africa into a place where people want to live other than a place they hope to leave.