About

Rita Okonkwo is a passionate software engineer with a determined spirit and a love for learning. She recently graduated from the University of Benin, Edo state, Nigeria with a degree in Computer Engineering and has since been working towards building her skills and knowledge in the field. Rita is an avid reader and believes that there is always something valuable to learn in every good book, especially non-fictional novels. She has also taken several courses on leadership and participated in the Young African Leaders (YALI) Emerging Leaders Program, where she learned the importance of empathy and being empathetic. Rita has a strong interest in coding and was selected for the Google Africa scholarship in partnership with Andela and Udacity, where she learned the basics of android development using Java as the core programming language. She is currently in the process of learning, unlearning, and relearning the concepts of software development and engineering. Rita's ultimate goal is to use her empathy and love for technology and humanity to build better products that can help all humans irrespective of race, gender, and disability. She is currently working as a Global Technology and Operations Intern at Bank of America and has previously worked as an MLH Fellow at Major League Hacking and as a Get Ahead Participant at Google. Rita's education history includes a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from the University of Benin, an Android Basics Nanodegree from Udacity, and a CS106A Code In Place Online Course from Stanford University. Her tech stack includes Software Engineering, Android, and Java, and she has 2.28 years of relevant experience.