Ajuna Kyaruzi '17

Ajuna Kyaruzi is serving as developer relations at Datadog. Previously she was a software engineer at Google, where she worked on the Google Maps Notifications team. Kyaruzi was born and raised in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and as an international black woman in tech often finds herself navigating diverse cultures. At Grinnell College, she was also a leader of student groups including the African Caribbean Student Union, Women in Computing, Association of Computing Machinery Student Chapter, and Grinnell Appdev, and organized Pioneer Weekend while she was a student. The 2017 graduate has continued building those spaces as the program manager for Africode, a non-profit aiming to help all Africans in tech be successful. She manages their mentorship program that matches African college students with tech professionals as mentors for their early career development. Ajuna was a speaker for TEDxGrinnellCollege 2021.