The name
Nicholas Dowornu Mawulorm carries a surname drawn from the Ewe language. Mawulorm means “God loves me.” It was originally the middle name of his father, Francis Mawulorm Nyameke, who chose to give it to his children as their surname. Dowornu is his middle name.
Early life in Teshie
Nicholas was born in 1999 in Teshie, a coastal community in Accra, Ghana. He grew up there with his father, Francis Mawulorm Nyameke, a photographer, and his mother, Joyce Saforo, a teacher and trader. He is the eldest of five children.
From 2006 to 2014 he attended Wajir Barracks ‘B’ Primary and Junior High School at Teshie Barracks in Accra.
A father’s bookshelf
His father loved science and engineering and kept a large shelf of books from the Americas and the United Kingdom. He had bought them for himself, but he expected his children to read at least some of them. He constantly encouraged them to learn.
He enrolled Nicholas and his younger brother Isaac in private lessons to learn to type on a computer. He also took them to cyber cafés to play educational games that explained how space shuttles work and how the universe is ordered. From those afternoons came a lasting passion for computing.
Self-taught beginnings
His family could not afford a computer, so Nicholas made his own opportunities. He spent every moment he could in his school’s ICT laboratory, and he spent many evenings assisting cyber café attendants in exchange for time at the machines. After junior high school he typed theses for bachelor’s degree students. Along the way he mastered the Microsoft Office suite, operating systems and the Windows command prompt.
Loss and responsibility
In 2014, before Nicholas entered senior high school, his father passed away. Clients were still waiting for funeral and event photographs stored on his father’s laptop. Using his self-taught knowledge of Windows systems, he bypassed the password on his late father’s laptop to recover funeral and event photographs that clients were waiting for. It was an early sign of the problem-solving that would define his career.
His mother, Joyce Saforo, continued to teach and fought tirelessly to make sure the family was fed every day. It was a difficult season, but she never gave up.
Labone Senior High School
From 2014 to 2017 Nicholas attended Labone Senior High School in Accra, where he studied Business. Even outside his programme of study, he pursued technology through the school’s robotics engineering club and explored computers further.
Computer forensics
After senior high school, he completed a series of computer forensics courses through edX. The courses deepened his knowledge of computer systems and gave him a working fluency in Linux.
A home with his aunt
After he completed senior high school, Nicholas went to live with his aunt, Mrs Bertha Emefa Kudomor, at Laterbiokoshie in Accra. She is his late father’s only sibling and a businesswoman. He lived with her until he finished university, and she bore the full cost of his university education. He counts her generosity among the most important gifts of his life.
University of Education, Winneba
In 2019 he entered the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) to study ICT Education. He graduated in 2023. During his time there:
- In 2020 he built native software for the Winneba branch of GCB Bank (Ghana Commercial Bank). It measured customer satisfaction through simple surveys and automatically calculated how long each customer spent between being attended to and leaving the bank.
- From 2019 to 2023 he organised free classes for his classmates, leading a study group of 30, and repeatedly held free programming classes for other university students.
- In 2022 he was named Best Student Programmer of the Year at the University of Education, Winneba.
- From December 2022 he completed a six-month teaching internship at Sogakope Senior High School. His example as a programmer inspired at least five students there to go on to study computer science at university.
He then served as a teaching assistant at UEW from 2023 to 2024. Across three levels of roughly 500 students each, he taught about 1,500 students in Introduction to Programming, Object-Oriented Programming in Java and Advanced Software Development.
Professional life
Nicholas began professional software development in 2020, building native applications in Kotlin, C# and C++ as a freelancer. In 2023 he formalised that work by founding Vesel Technologies, of which he is Chief Executive Officer. In 2025 he served as a Senior Software Engineer with PJ Grant, a company based in the United States. In 2026 he joined Spagad Technologies as a Senior Software Engineer, contributing to national systems including GHIMS, Health Pro and the Ghana Revenue Authority’s GITMIS.
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Faith and personal life
Nicholas is a Christian. Outside his work, he loves music, computing, programming and teaching. He speaks English, Twi and Ga fluently and also speaks some Ewe, the language of his hometown. He lives in Accra.
Vision
His ambition is for Vesel Technologies to become a leading technology company, building a wide range of software solutions for Ghana, for Africa and beyond.