Olu Obembe is Vice President of Engineering at Salesforce. In this role, he leads development teams, ensuring design requirements are met and maintaining consistent user experiences. Olu has worked in technical roles within the company for more than a decade, developing transformative services, such as read-scaling, database connectivity, database health management, database scalability, global replication, core runtime, core containerization, and many others.
Prior to Salesforce, Olu was as a software engineer at IBM and Sterling Commerce, securing 9 patents ranging from managing database failure to recovering from service disruptions.
He has a passion for empowering underrepresented groups in STEM roles and played a key role in developing FutureForce Tech Launchpad, a Salesforce pre-internship program with hands-on, immersive experience to make students internship ready. Olu earned a Bachelor's of Science in Systems Engineering from the University of Windsor and a Master's of Science in Systems Engineering from the University of Michigan.