Monica Bajaj is a seasoned technology executive with over two decades of industry experience leading global, 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, Developer experience at Okta. Prior to Okta she has held senior engineering leadership positions at various global enterprise companies like Workday, UKG, NetApp and Cisco.

Her expertise lies in building high-performance, and secure software platforms that can handle from Millions of users and billions of transactions, keeping resiliency and scale as the first principles. Monica holds a BS and MS in Computer Science from IIT Mumbai, India. In 2021, she won the Mentor of the year award from the WomenTech Network and was selected as one of the Top 60 Women technical leaders to watch by the Girl Geek X Community across fortune 500 companies. Monica is an active speaker in the Silicon Valley, a supporter of diversity in STEM, and an exec sponsor for Women at Okta. 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.