A'Kaia Phelps

Software Engineer

A'Kaia Phelps is a software engineer and graduate student at Purdue University pursuing a Master of Engineering Management, building on her B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola Marymount University. She brings technical program management and software engineering experience from two internships at Microsoft, where she led Xbox Cloud Gaming system integrations and built enterprise tooling in C# and Blazor. A two-time hackathon champion, she combines engineering depth with a collaborative, community-driven approach.