Monica Bajaj

25+ Years Building Software Products | Managing $1B Revenue Portfolio | Leading 600+ team membersI am a Senior Technology Executive who blends technical expertise with business strategy to build high-impact products and scale global engineering organizations. With over two decades of experience across B2B and B2C markets, my focus is on guiding products from inception to global expansion, always prioritizing high trust, tight customer focus, and operational excellence at scale. As SVP of Engineering at Okta, I lead our global Auth0 Engineering teams. We are building a developer-first, frictionless, and highly secure identity platform that handles billions of logins monthly. I am particularly focused on balancing developer productivity, advancing AI adoptions, and security, developing forward-thinking solutions for the unique authentication challenges presented by agentic AI applications. Throughout my career, including technical leadership roles at Workday, UKG, Perforce, NetApp, and Cisco, I’ve built high-performance, secure, scalable software systems capable of handling millions of users and transactions* Workday: Led Digital Customer Experience, scaling to millions of monthly page views* UKG: Spearheaded the AI product portfolio for the Talent Management product line * Perforce: Directed engineering, supporting an install base of 100K+ developers serving petabytes of dataBeyond my corporate mandate, I am passionate about cultivating the next generation of technical leaders and shaping the broader tech ecosystem. * Board Member: SheTO, the largest network of women changing the face of engineering leadership* Advisor: Berkeley SkyDeck Accelerator, AI/ML Dev Network, Industry Advisory Board at UCSD (Jacobs School of Engineering)* Executive Sponsor: Women at OktaI hold an MS in Computer Science from IIT Mumbai. Outside work, I'm an active speaker in Silicon Valley, a dedicated mentor to women and girls in STEM, and an artist who loves painting, hiking with my family, and exploring world cuisines.🏆 Recent Recognition: * WomenTech Network 30 Exceptional Women in Engineering Leadership (2026)* Top 50 Women Leaders of San Francisco, Women We Admire (2025) * Extraordinary Women in Tech in San Francisco (2024)* WomenTech Global Tech ERG Leader Award (2023)* Featured in March8 Women's Magazine (2022)* WomenTech Global Mentor of the Year Award (2021)