Global Engineering & Product Executive. Building resilient, intelligent platforms powering revenue & innovation. Driving GenAI adoption and dev productivity to transform SaaS, eCom, and financial systems at a global scale. Expert in product-market fit, infra modernization & monetization strategy across Fintech, eCom & SaaS. Delivering growth through platform resilience & GTM alignment.
With extensive experience across payments, e-commerce, AI/ML & enterprise SaaS, she has scaled teams to 750+ engineers & product leaders to build platforms that power Bns in revenue through millions of users.
1. Are you excited to speak at the Women in Tech Global Conference and what motivated you to join our community of 200,000 women in tech, and allies?
I am totally humbled and grateful for the opportunity to talk at the Women in Tech Global Conference. This conference that brings together a global network of 200,000 women, minorities, and allies, is the best platform for me to share my knowledge, experience and lessons that I learned throughout my career. Women in Tech, with its scale and purpose, inspires me and also aligns with my targets to give back to the community and learn from peers across geographies and industries. Your conference and its ability to educate, inspire and. motivate women leaders to shape how technology is built, governed, used, and scaled is the perfect venue for me to create an impact.
Throughout my career, I’ve worked at the intersection of technology and business outcomes with the responsibility of building and scaling products and platforms that power billions in revenue while operating in highly regulated, high-stakes environments. I’ve firsthand experience that diverse experiences at the table not only enable building but also innovating and building resilient, socially, ethically and environmentally responsible systems.
2. Share with us about your background, your journey in tech, and what inspired you to develop your career in this direction?
My journey in tech started over 25 years ago and has been shaped around the theme of humanizing technology and solving human needs, aspirations and problems in a best optimum, amplified, scaled, and trustworthy repeatable fashion using technology.
I’ve spent my career across diverse industries and systems and organizations, like finance, payments, e-commerce, AI/ML, and enterprise SaaS and lead and scaled global engineering and product organizations of engineers and product leaders to build systems used by millions of users.
I’ve had the privilege of leading technology at companies like Amazon, PayPal, Salesforce, and now BlackRock, where I currently serve as Managing Director and Global Head of Aladdin Platform Engineering Services, supporting one of the world’s most critical financial technology platforms.
What inspired me to stay and grow in this field is the realization that when I started my career over 25 years ago, I was the only developer among 100+ developers. For me, the ratio of women to men was daunting, and being a mother of two daughters, it was imperative that I continued to stay in the field in spite of all the pressures of work-life balance.
For me, the challenge of being in the workforce to inspire my daughters and future generations, coupled with how to anchor technology in human needs and problems, was a critical force to keep me going. I
Every platform decision affects customers, markets, employees, and society. I gravitated toward roles where I could connect customer needs, employee satisfaction, and engineering solutions and build with authenticity and empathy by keeping engineering excellence, business strategy, and go-to-market alignment and trust in focus.
As my career progressed, I’ve benefited from peer networks, coaches, and mentors, and I feel a sense of responsibility to give back to the community, particularly women, and share my life and professional lessons to help navigate complex technical, leadership, and personal paths.
3. Why is the topic “How do you drive AI Productivity Gains into Business Outcomes?” important to you?
This topic is challenging and interesting to me at the same time.
The most important questions are: Is AI a fad, a bubble or a hype or is AI a foundational and transformative technology? can only be addressed if AI can drive meaningful human experiences, business outcomes and revenue growth sustainably and responsibly.
This moment in history is defining as it is not only the moment of AI adoption but AI is amplifying and accelerating change at a pace where organizations are unable to cope, measure and understand and control the change. While organizations deploy GenAI tools, copilots, and agents in different pockets but they struggle to translate all these into measurable outcomes that drive revenue growth, standardized, predictable cost efficiencies and improved customer retention and adoption through upscaled experiences.
In my roles, I’ve seen that AI only creates value when it’s standardized, embedded into platforms and process workflows, and decision-making and when existing workflows and roles and jobs are redefined.
This topic matters because leaders today must answer a hard question:
“How does AI impact a company's bottom line?”
Helping organizations bridge that gap from technology potential to business reality is where I’ve spent much of my career, and it’s what I’m most passionate about sharing.
4. Who would you advise to attend the Women in Tech Global Conference and why?
I would encourage everyone who is interested in learning about recent technology advances, future usage and bottlenecks and issues and progress impediments to attend the Women in Tech Global Conference.
Exposure to real-world leadership journeys, practical frameworks, and lessons of navigating scale, complexity, and transformation will help both emerging and mid-career professionals.
For senior leaders and executives, cross-sharing of knowledge and peer networking groups provides insights into how organizations are navigating the AI-induced changes in a fast-paced fashion while not losing sight of customer needs, resilience, trust, security and transformation. A space for authentic and real conversations and a forum that helps propel that forward year after year is essential way, minorities, women and allies to come together to make an impact.
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