Bio

Monica Bajaj is a seasoned engineering leader with decades of industry experience building and scaling global diverse teams across both the consumer and enterprise space. She is currently VP of Engineering at Auth0 (a division of Okta) where she empowers a frictionless developer experience ensuring ease of mind for her customers by focusing on building scalable and secure identity solutions. Monica brings in decades of industry experience across various tech industries and has been successful in building global diverse teams and scaling technology across . multiple industries in the space of Consumer/ Enterprise , Infrastructure and Security . Prior to Okta she was a Senior Director of Product and Engineering at Workday where she led the efforts of re- platforming Workday Community as a secure and scalable SaaS platform.focusing on driving personalization , increased engagement and enabled self-service for internal and external users. Before Workday, she was responsible for spearheading the AI Product portfolio for the Talent Management Product line at Ultimate Software (now UKG). She led the ML driven voice of employee platform ( Ultipro Perception) that provides organizations and leaders with analytics and actionable insights for improving engagement and retention. In addition to this , she built and launched a performance management offering with NLP driven performance feedback and themes, performance goals, reviews, succession plans and 1:1 meetings from the ground up Prior to UKG, she was the Engineering Head at Perforce, responsible for their VCS core business supporting 100K plus developers across multiple industries including Gaming and DevOps industries. Monica earned a M.S in Computer Science from IIT Mumbai, India. Outside of work Monica is very active in programs around mentorship, diversity, and uplifting women and young girls. She has won several awards as a Mentor of the Year 2021 award “ and has been recognized as top 60 Women technical leaders by the Girl Geek X Community. She has also served on the board as Technology and Chief Compliance Officer for Women in Localization for their GDPR and Security initiatives . Outside work, Monica enjoys outdoors , hiking, painting and cuisines of the world. She can be reached on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mobajaj Contact: monicabajaj08@gmail.com