Summary
Ijemma Onwuzulike is a software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable user experiences at Google and Google DeepMind, and previously shipping core frameworks at Squarespace that serve millions of users. She designs reliable systems and product-focused dashboards—work that has impacted over 30 million users—and consistently turns ambiguous requirements into delivered features under tight deadlines. As founder and CEO of Nkọwa okwu, she built the largest open, multidialectal Igbo–English dictionary (100,000 words) and leads cross-functional teams to advance Nigerian language NLP used by universities and researchers. Based in Berkeley, she blends product-minded engineering with community-focused tech impact, applying industry-grade practices to preserve and scale underrepresented language resources.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Heritage High School
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Dartmouth College
English, Japanese