Veronika Wu
Principal Product Designer at Twitter
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVeronika Wu is a Principal Product Designer in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of experience shaping consumer products at Instagram, Twitter/Periscope, Zoom, and as a founding designer at a funded consumer AI startup. She combines rapid prototyping, product strategy, and strong visual taste to ship polished interactions—recently helping Moda launch successfully and go viral. Veronika partners with early-stage founders to unify brand, UX, and marketing into cohesive experiences, often building high-fidelity prototypes that become production-ready. Her background in architecture and illustration fuels a systems-minded yet craft-forward approach to design, and she contributes to open-source localization work (notably for Mozilla’s Common Voice Toki Pona translations). Colleagues describe her as optimistic, collaborative, and capable of touching every layer of a product from canvas editors to landing pages.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Other; Certificate in Disruptive Strategy with Clayton Christensen, Other; Certificate in Disruptive Strategy with Clayton Christensen at Harvard Business School OnlineIllustration, Graphic Design, Illustration, Graphic Design at California College of the ArtsGraphic Design, Graphic Design at Otis College of Art and DesignBachelor of Science, Engineering: Architectural Design, Bachelor of Science, Engineering: Architectural Design at Stanford University
English, Slovak, Czech
Github Skills (4)
internationalization10
localization10
translation10
crowdsourcing9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
common-voice/common-voice
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
Common Voice is part of Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak.
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:9 commits, 2 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Veronika primarily contributed to the localization efforts of the Common Voice project, specifically focusing on updating and improving the Toki Pona (tok) language translations. Their work involved modifying message files to provide accurate and up-to-date translations for various user interface elements and content within the application. These updates reflect a commitment to ensuring the project's accessibility to Toki Pona speakers.
internet-freedommachinesinitiativeopen-datavoice
hecko-yes/hecko.my.to
Dec 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:397 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
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