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Laila Abudahi

Manara
Social entrepreneur | Co-Founder of Manara (YC W21) | ex-Microsoft, ex-Nvidia | Fulbright Scholar | Schmidt Futures Fellow | Angel Investor

I'm Laila, co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Manara, where we connect top software engineers from the Middle East and North Africa with global tech opportunities. Previously I was a systems engineer at Nvidia and Palo Alto Networks, building dataplane and firmware systems. I'm a Fulbright Scholar with a master's in Electrical Engineering from University of Washington and an angel investor backing MENA founders.

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