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About
Hello there! I am an engineering leader with a penchant for seeking out new challenges with a high degree of curiosity. These qualities have shaped my career over 2 decades, leading engineering teams at large enterprises and startups where I like to develop a culture of authenticity, growth mindset, accountability, and psychological safety for my teams to thrive and grow. I’m here to share my experiences, including successes and lessons learned, to help shape and nurture careers.
Heather also coaches for Site Reliability Engineering, Technical Program Management, and Leadership Coaching. View all.
Heather’s Software Engineering Qualifications
Experience level: Director
100+ Software Engineering clients
Being in the software engineering space for over 20 years across multiple roles and organizations of different shapes and sizes has taught me a thing or two about how to build teams and deliver some incredible projects. I specialize in leading product and platform engineering teams at mid to late stage + enterprise organizations. I have been a people leader now for over 10 years and have had the fortune or working with some really good folks; some who achieved great results and some who didn't that gave me an opportunity to find ways to unlock their careers. Additionally, I am an advisor to VCs, early strange start ups and consult on various expert consulting platforms like Tegus. How can I help you? Or what can I coach you on? Really anything in people leadership like how to promote platform engineers, how to write strategy documents? How do I get promoted to Director? What should an interview panel look like for an infra engineer? How to resolve conflicts at work? How to read a room? How to run an effective meeting? How to continue to remain technical as a people leader? You have a need, feel free to ask and we can go from there.
Heather can help with:
Architecture
Behavioral Interview Prep
Cover Letters
Frontend Frameworks
LinkedIn Review
Networking Strategy
Promotion Strategy
Resume Review
Salary Negotiation
Skill Building
Technical Interview Prep
Why do I coach?
I coach because I genuinely enjoy listening and find fulfillment in knowing that my advice has made a positive difference in someone’s day. My strong sense of empathy allows me to deeply understand and address what my clients truly need. I have had a vast pool of experiences, both good and bad, that allow me to provide tailored guidance with practical examples and actionable plans to help my clients take the next meaningful step in their careers.
Work Experience
Director of Engineering
Okta
April 2025 - Present
Leading SRE, Data and Security Engineering capabilities for Okta's Cyber Defence capabilities.
Director of Engineering - Infrastructure
Opendoor
January 2023 - February 2025
Director of Engineering for Infrastructure responsible for strategy and execution for Cloud Infrastructure, Developer Experience and SRE tooling capabilities at Opendoor. Platform Engineering, Microservices and +9 skills
Director of Engineering - Cloud and Developer Tooling
Headspace
November 2020 - December 2022
- Leading Cloud Infrastructure and SRE functions for Headspace and Ginger apps. - Led Developer Productivity team to improve developer happiness by improving release pipelines, provide developer tooling for automated testing. - Led Cloud security and Compliance tactics for Hitrust certification. - Unification of 2 Cloud platforms as part of a merger where I led the strategy and implementation to merge our authentication, accounts, IaaC, observability and incident management tooling. - Migration to serverless compute (Fargate) for our ECS services. - Introducing site-reliability as a function in a product-first organization. Platform Engineering, Developer Experience and +2 skills
Senior Technical Program Manager
OpenText
September 2019 - November 2020
Technical Program Management for building out Opentext's Developer Platform providing a host of services to build or extend your enterprise's information management capabilities. Key tracks managed: - Working with cross functional groups to track, enable, commercialize OpenText's Developer platform (https://developer.opentext.com/) - Migration of Cloud platform from Cloud Foundry to Google Anthos. - Program Management to deliver over 30 services and applications - Integration with APIGee for services metering and billing needs. - Cross functional coordination across Eng; DevOps, CloudOps, Product Management and Commercialization teams. - Implementation of modern CI/CD implementation across the platform. - Storage modernization from SWIFT to S3 - Building out cross functional/BU plans to identify dependencies, risks and milestones. Bringing structure to program and it's objectives. Learn more about OT2 - https://www.opentext.com/products-and-solutions/ot2 Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure and +1 skill
Senior Engineering Manager
IBM
February 2014 - August 2019
- Engineering Manager activities for rollout of Algo Risk Service on Cloud for various clients of IBM. - Engineering Manager activities for Cloud security and compliance activities for 2 of IBM's SaaS offerings in the Risk Analytics space Platform Engineering and Cloud Infrastructure
Engineering Manager
Infosys
March 2012 - October 2013
- Engineering Manager for Manulife Financial's DistributionIS portfolio of services - Key technical domains include Data Transformation, Data Storage, Salesforce and Compensation systems.
Engineering Manager, Engineer
Infosys
June 2003 - February 2012
- Engineering Manager/solution consulting for various Royal Bank of Canada projects - Stakeholder Management for Business Online Banking and Wealth Management groups - Key domains and projects lead - retail trading platform modernization, cash management systems, systems modernization, online banking applications - Managing, hiring, mentoring teams of ICs and tech leads
Heather was also given offers to work at
NVIDIA
Google
IBM
Opendoor
Headspace
OpenText
Fujitsu
Okta
Coalition
Education
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
Diploma in Advanced Computing, Computer Science
1998 - 1999
University of Mumbai
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
1994 - 1998
Heather was also personally admitted to
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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Nail Your Software Engineering Interviews
Starting at
$712
Land a Software Engineering Offer — Getting Started
Starting at
$712
Craft a Winning Software Engineering Resume
Starting at
$294
Heather also coaches for Site Reliability Engineering, Technical Program Management, and Leadership Coaching. View all.
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