{"basics":{"name":"jiokua","label":"ai builder/policy nerd","email":"hello@jiokua.dev","url":"https://jiokua.dev","summary":"Studying agent-mediated human coordination in the wild. Exploring how human-to-agent-to-human workflows reshape trust, labor, and social commitment.","profiles":[{"network":"GitHub","username":"joshuaiokua","url":"https://github.com/joshuaiokua"},{"network":"LinkedIn","username":"joshuaiokua","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuaiokua/"},{"network":"Substack","username":"jiokua","url":"https://substack.com/@jiokua"}]},"work":[{"name":"intentlii","position":"Founder & CEO","location":"Oakland, CA","startDate":"Feb 2026","endDate":"Jun 2026","summary":"A deployed iOS testbed for agent-mediated human coordination — studying how AI in interpersonal commitments shifts trust, attribution, and delegation.","highlights":["Designed an \"agents inform but do not commit\" pattern that lets AI surface structured suggestions while preserving human authorship over social commitments — the foundation of the product's trust model.","Built an MCP server exposing intent and coordination primitives to third-party agents, positioning intentlii as agent-ready coordination infrastructure.","Architected and shipped the full stack solo: React Native/Expo client, GCP backend (Cloud Run, Cloud SQL/PostgreSQL, GCS, Pub/Sub), TypeScript monorepo.","Owned product, engineering, design, and go-to-market end-to-end; in-cohort pivot within Berkeley SkyDeck Batch 20."]},{"name":"Gheek AI","position":"Founder & CEO","location":"Oakland, CA","startDate":"Jan 2025","endDate":"Feb 2026","summary":"An end-to-end customer-engagement platform for building assistive chatbots over a business's own pages, documents, and forms.","highlights":["Admitted to Berkeley SkyDeck Batch 20 (2025); shipped to real customers, including photographer Sapna Reddy, who turned workshop brochures into chat-driven experiences.","Architected a multi-tenant GCP stack (Cloud Run, Cloud SQL/PostgreSQL, GCS/Cloud CDN, Pub/Sub) with a TypeScript monorepo spanning Next.js web and Expo mobile.","Designed analytics-ready data infrastructure (event modeling, GIN/trigram indexing) and guided-support UX (snippet capture, streaming responses, bookmarking).","Managed a small team through scoped milestones and releases; pivoted the underlying coordination insights into intentlii."]},{"name":"Fimio, Inc.","position":"Founding Machine Learning & Software Engineer","location":"San Francisco, CA","startDate":"Jun 2022","endDate":"Jul 2024","summary":"Founding engineer building ML tooling for smart-contract auditing and reproducible Python environments.","highlights":["Built ML-powered Solidity smart-contract auditing — LLM analysis with retrieval over known vulnerability patterns — to surface security issues for auditors.","Built ML-driven reproducibility tooling that recreates working Python environments from existing code and dependency artifacts.","Shipped scalable AWS microservices (containerized services, data pipelines, APIs) and content-addressed data infrastructure for provenance, dedup, and faster retrieval.","Owned end-to-end ML — datasets, evaluations, and production models — across both products."]},{"name":"Madojo","position":"Co-Founder & Product Lead","location":"Berkeley, CA","startDate":"Oct 2021","endDate":"Jul 2022","summary":"Co-founded a platform connecting Nigerian graduates to tech employers through skills training and mentorship.","highlights":["Won the 2022 Binance-LIFT \"Blockchain for Social Good\" Grand Prize."]},{"name":"CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, UC Berkeley","position":"AI Policy Researcher","location":"Berkeley, CA","startDate":"Jul 2021","endDate":"Jan 2022","summary":"AI-governance research with the CA Department of Technology on EU AI Act analysis.","highlights":["Collaborated with the CA Department of Technology and former CA Chief Data Officer Joy Bonaguro on EU AI Act analysis to inform California's emerging AI governance.","Co-developed an AI risk-management curriculum delivered to city, county, and state agencies across California."]},{"name":"Radiant Earth Foundation","position":"Data Policy Researcher","location":"Washington, D.C. (remote)","startDate":"Jun 2021","endDate":"Nov 2021","summary":"Researched agricultural data-ownership frameworks and data ethics for ML on satellite imagery.","highlights":["Authored a white paper on agricultural data ownership across high- and low/middle-income contexts; published as part of the Gates Foundation's ECAAS initiative.","Researched data ethics in satellite imagery and ML, focused on equity implications for the developing world."]},{"name":"Blum Center for Developing Economies, UC Berkeley","position":"Industry 4.0 Policy Consultant","location":"Berkeley, CA","startDate":"Jan 2021","endDate":"May 2021","summary":"Led Future-of-Work research with former Dep. Asst. Treasury Secretary Brad DeLong.","highlights":["Led a research project with Brad DeLong on COVID-19's effects on Vietnamese and Mexican manufacturing and the Future of Work.","Translated findings into policy recommendations for low- and middle-income economies facing accelerated automation."]},{"name":"University of California, Berkeley","position":"Graduate Student Instructor & Reader","location":"Berkeley, CA","startDate":"Fall 2020","endDate":"Spring 2022","summary":"Taught three graduate courses in public policy and data/information visualization.","highlights":["Taught and assisted in Public Policy Implementation, Data Visualization in Public Policy (Goldman School), and Information Visualization (School of Information).","Mentored students in coding best practices, ethical data handling, and applied analysis."]},{"name":"Goldman School of Public Policy","position":"Global Programs Specialist","location":"Berkeley, CA","startDate":"Jul 2017","endDate":"Oct 2019","summary":"Ran executive-education programs for foreign government officials and corporate leaders.","highlights":["Developed and coordinated short- and long-term executive-education programs for foreign officials, university leadership, and corporate executives.","Owned program operations end-to-end: contracts, client research, logistics, and web maintenance."]}],"education":[{"institution":"University of California, Berkeley","studyType":"Master of Development Engineering","area":"AI / Data Analytics for Social Impact","score":"3.72 / 4.00","endDate":"2022","courses":["CS 188 — Artificial Intelligence","CS 288 — Natural Language Processing","CS 294 — Algorithms and Inequality","INFO 251 — Applied Machine Learning","PUBPOL 210A/B — Economic Public Policy Analysis","PUBPOL 240A/B — Decision Analysis & Quantitative Methods","PUBPOL 271 — Political Economy","PUBPOL 273 — Public Management"]},{"institution":"University of California, Berkeley","studyType":"Master of Public Policy","area":"Graduate Certificate in Applied Data Science","endDate":"2021"},{"institution":"University of California, Berkeley","studyType":"B.A. Political Science","endDate":"2017"},{"institution":"University of California, Berkeley","studyType":"B.A. English","endDate":"2017"}],"skills":[{"name":"Core skills","keywords":["Full-stack TypeScript","React Native / Expo","ML & LLM systems","Agent systems & MCP","GCP / AWS infrastructure","Eval & data infrastructure","AI policy & governance","Product strategy"]}],"publications":[{"name":"Manufacturing During the Pandemic: COVID-19's Impact on Mexico and Viet Nam","publisher":"Blum Center for Developing Economies","releaseDate":"2021","summary":"A field-research-informed study of pandemic-era manufacturing restructuring and the Future of Work in two middle-income economies pursuing post-China supply-chain reorientation."},{"name":"Big Data in Agriculture: Achieving Data Ownership for Farmers Across Regions","publisher":"Radiant Earth Foundation · Gates Foundation ECAAS","releaseDate":"2021","summary":"A white paper on agricultural data-ownership frameworks across high- and low/middle-income contexts, published institutionally as part of the Gates Foundation's ECAAS initiative."},{"name":"Designing New Ways to Build Worker Power","publisher":"Jobs for the Future","releaseDate":"2020","summary":"A Goldman School policy report on state-level interventions to build worker power in California — sectoral bargaining, co-enforcement, employee ownership, and procurement."},{"name":"Vietnam and the Consequences of Technological Innovation for Developing Countries","publisher":"Center for Strategic & International Studies","releaseDate":"2017","summary":"Examined automation's distributional effects on developing economies through the lens of Vietnam's manufacturing sector."}],"projects":[{"name":"Clide","description":"A product surface for reading, shaping, and acting on complex work.","highlights":["Clarified a complex product surface for 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