Yo there, I'm Iheanyi. I'm a product engineer currently living in Houston, Texas. Currently, I'm helping grow the GDP of the internet at Stripe. While I enjoy both designing and building products, I also enjoy co-hosting my podcast, Two Black Nerds, with my best friend Romeo.

Iheanyi Ekechukwu

Experience

Stripe Senior Software Engineer December 2025 – now
PlanetScale Software Engineer November 2020 – July 2025
Kleiner Perkins Scout October 2020 – October 2024
GitHub Senior Software Engineer August 2018 – November 2020
DigitalOcean Software Engineer II March 2016 – July 2018
IBM Watson Software Engineer February 2015 – February 2016
iCeNSA Research Assistant February 2013 – December 2014
IBM Systems Software Engineering Intern May 2013/2014 – August 2013/2014
Cooperative Computing Lab Research Assistant January 2012 – December 2012

Portfolio Companies

Arrows Avenue Balsa → Airtable CoScreen → Datadog Dynaboard → Figma Fly.io Hex Napkin → Klaviyo StackShare → FOSSA Plural Stellate → Acquired Supabase Stytch → Twilio Texts → Automattic The Browser Company → Atlassian Warp

Education

University of Notre Dame December 2014

B.S. Computer Science / B.A. Graphic Design

Interviews/Press

The Atlantic 4 Essential Podcasts That Will Help You Break Into Tech Thunder Nerds Holding Yourself to Higher Standards on ThunderNerds People of Color in Tech Interview for People of Color in Tech egghead.io Interview on Egghead ModelViewCulture An Interview with Two Black Nerds DigitalDrift Interview with DigitalDrift RevisionPath Interview with RevisionPath The Network Journal Interview with the Network Journal HanselMinutes Should Developers Design on HanselMinutes Design Details Taste Acquisition on Design Details ONCHEK Tech Series: Meet Iheanyi

Speaking

Strange Loop (2018) Building a Canary Testing Framework
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JSCamp Romania (2017) gRPC and Protobufs
Slides Video
MadisonRuby (2016) Ember.js, DevOps, and You
Slides Video
NPM Camp (2016) Ember.js, DevOps, and You
Slides Video

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