San Francisco Bay Area
Highly accomplished and results-driven Senior Technology Executive with 20+ years of proven success leading global engineering teams and delivering innovative products for B2B and B2C markets. I bring deep expertise in scaling and global expansion of products, technology, and teams with high trust and tight customer focus. I have a diverse technology industry background in consumer and enterprise spaces, including infrastructure, Business Intelligence, DevOps, and Security. As an executive leader, I have built high-performance and secure software systems that can handle millions of users and transactions, with engagement, resiliency, and scale as first principles. I am currently VP of Engineering at Okta, where I lead the Developer Experience, Fine Grained Authorization and AI/ML portfolio building identity solutions at scale for Customer Identity Cloud. Prior to Okta, I was the Senior Director of Product and Engineering at Workday, leading Digital Customer Experience for customers that scaled millions of page views monthly. Before Workday, I spearheaded the AI product portfolio for the Talent Management product line at UKG. I was also Head of Engineering at Perforce, VCS, supporting an install base of 100K plus developers serving petabytes of data. I have earned an MS in Computer Science from IIT Mumbai, India. Outside work, I'm an active speaker in Silicon Valley, a scout mom and a mentor to women and girls. I am also an artist who enjoys hiking, painting, and world cuisines. Awards and Recognition: * Top 50 Women in Technology in San Francisco , Women We Admire 2025 * Extraordinary women in tech in SF 2024 * WomenTech Global Tech ERG leader award 2023 * Featured in March8 Women's magazine 2022 * WomenTech Global Mentor of the Year award, 2021 award * Top 60 CTOs to watch in 2020 by the Girl Geek X Community Board roles: * Board Member: SheTO, largest network of women changing the face of engineering leadership * Advisory board of Berkeley SKYDECK accelerator * Industry Advisory Board at UCSD, Jacob School of Engineering * Advisory board AI/ML dev network * Executive Sponsor : Women at Okta * Women in Localization : Prior-Board member :Technology and Compliance ( Chief Compliance officer)
Leading Auth0 Business Unit Engineering organization across AI, Data, Security, Platform, Authentication, Authorization, and Developer Experience, securing billions of logins at scale for enterprises worldwide. My work sits at the intersection of security, data, and Agentic AI, focused on delivering an extensible developer experience that simplifies the most complex CIAM use cases for B2B and B2C market by providing a reliable and innovative foundation for the future of autonomous and secure digital interaction.
Solving Authorization , Authentication and building Delightful Developer experience for Authentication flows. Our mission is to create a new way to solve identity where we solve the most complex and large scale identity use cases for global enterprises thus creating an easy to integrate platform via our SDKs and secure billions of logins every year. As the VP of Engineering leading Developer experience, Authentication Flows and Fine Grained Authorization at Customer Identity Cloud , I lead a globally distributed team focused on development and innovation efforts to deliver the most advanced authentication and authorization SaaS solution on the market.
Waypoint AI is building the world’s first AI Customer Support Engineer to automate software maintenance so engineers can focus on development.
SheTO is the world's largest private curated community of women and non-binary engineering leaders. Our focus is to reduce the gender gap in the engineering leadership roles. This community is globally distributed and almost 50% of our members come from Fortune 500 companies with several in C-Suite and Executive leadership . If you are an Engineering leader or passionate about investing in the growth of your engineering teams and would like to build balanced teams at every level, feel free to reach out
Industry Advisory Board at UCSD, Jacob School of Engineering
Mentor and Advisor to startups at UC Berkeley's Incubator program. Areas of focus : Product Market fit, Product Led Growth, Architecture