2x founder
Julia Wu
Co-founder & CEO at Spark AI | Permitting for power infrastructure & data centers (ex-Apple, Microsoft, Brex)
Experience
Career
2023Spark AI (YC W24)
Co-founderCo-Founder & CEO · San Francisco, CA · 2023 – Present
2023Clean Energy Leadership Institute
Fellow · New York, New York, United States · 2023
- 2022
Venture Capital
Crypto/Web3 Entrepreneur in Residence · 2022
2021Brex
Engineering Manager · 2021 – 2022
- 2020
Brex
Technical Lead / Manager · 2020 – 2021
- 2019
Brex
Senior Software Engineer · 2019 – 2020
- 2019
Brex
Software Engineer · 2019 – 2020
2017Apple
Software Engineer, Siri Knowledge Platform (AI/ML) · San Francisco, California · 2017 – 2019
2017Personal Projects
Builder · 2017 – 2019
2016Microsoft
Software Engineer Intern, Azure · Redmond, Washington, United States · 2016
2014Brown University Department of Computer Science
Computer Science Teaching Assistant · Providence, Rhode Island · 2014 – 2016
2013Lean In at Brown University
Co-founderCo-Founder, President · 2013 – 2016
- 2015
Microsoft
Software Engineer Intern, Office Developer Tools · Greater Seattle Area · 2015
Bio
Julia is the co-founder and CEO of Spark, an AI-powered permitting and workflow solution for energy infrastructure. Before Spark, Julia was an engineering manager and early engineer at Brex, where she led teams like Card Fraud, Growth, and Rewards. She was also an engineer at Apple Siri and Microsoft Azure. Julia studied computer science & economics at Brown, speaks 3 languages natively, and grew up between Brazil and China.