Monica
Bajaj
Vice President, Engineering at Okta
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Monica Bajaj Bio
Monica Bajaj is a seasoned technology executive with 20+ years of industry experience leading global and diverse engineering teams. Her expertise spans technology, operations, global expansion, M&A and product launch in areas such as Consumer/Enterprise, Infrastructure, Business Intelligence, DevOps, and Security. She is currently the Vice President of Engineering at Okta where she focuses on building a developer-first, extensible identity platform which is scalable and enterprise ready. She leads the development and innovation efforts for building a frictionless experience for our customers and partners thus delivering the most advanced authentication and authorization SaaS solution in the market. Her expertise lies in building high-performance, and secure software platforms that can handle millions of users and billions of transactions.Prior to Okta she has held senior engineering leadership positions at various global enterprise companies like NetApp, Workday, Perforce and Cisco. She currently sits on the advisory board of Berkeley skydeck accelerator where she advises many early stage startups. Monica is an active speaker in the Silicon Valley, a supporter of diversity in STEM, and an exec sponsor for Women at Okta. She holds an MS in Computer Science from IIT Mumbai, India When not obsessing over technology, she can be found spending time with Boy Scouts, enjoying hiking and supporting the cause of mentorship and uplifting women and young girls.
