Bio
Born in a lower middle. class family in India, it was a struggle for her parents to provide education. But the value of education they instilled in her, helped her grow. She did her Masters in Computer Science @ Texas A&M University and now she is Sr. Director of Engineering @ GreenLake Cloud team, HPE. Praveena carries rich experience in Leadership, Cloud, SaaS, Storage, Networking, Quality Assurance, DevOps, SRE and Automation. Prior to HPE, she worked at Cisco for 6 years and Ixia for 6 years. She loves spending time with her kids and have been lucky to do so with the right work-life balance while working @HPE team for 9 years. She believes in “Customers come first, if you have that mantra, you’ll be successful”. She is big proponent of girls/women in tech and inculcates the same into our younger generation. She is founder/chair-person of Women’s ERG group at HPE. She was nominated for HPE Women’s Excellence Award, 2020. She also was interviewed by Media7 for International Women’s Day 2020. She was Speaker at Grace Hopper Conference in 2020 and Women In Tech Global Series in 2021.
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