Five Must-Know Indian Women Engineers From Big Tech

Indian women engineers: The United Nations has found that women in India constitute only 14 per cent of the total scientists, technologists and engineers in research development institutions despite women-centric initiatives.

Only one out of 10 engineers is a woman in India and 40 per cent of them face rampant sexism in workplace. Overcoming all challenges, there are Indian women engineers who have become famous for their innovations with persistent hard work and determination.

We bring to you 5 Indian women engineers who have made it, in big tech.

1.  Ruchi Sanghvi

Ruchi Sanghvi pursued a Bachelor's and Master's degree in electrical computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. She is the first Indian female engineer to be hired by Facebook. In 2010, she quit Facebook and started Cove in 2011 with two other co-founders. In 2012, Cove was sold to Dropbox where Sanghvi joined as the VP of operations. The next year, she left Dropbox. In 2016, the computer engineer set up South Park Commons, a residential and professional tech space functioning similar to a hackerspace.

2. Priya Balasubramaniam

Priya Balasubramaniam is presently working as the Vice President of Core Technologies Operations and iPhone Operations at Apple Inc. She has a background in mechanical engineering, supply chain management, marketing and software engineering. Balasubrahmaniam joined Apple Inc. in 2001. In 2006, she became the director for Core Technologies Procurement and in 2010, she got promoted to the post of the Senior director. She has been working as the Vice President of Core Technologies Operations and iPhone Operations since 2016.

3. Raji Arasu

Raji Arasu is the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology officer at Autodesk. Between 2011-2015, she was the Chief Technology Officer of eBay subsidiary, StubHub. She held several executive positions at eBay for a decade. The company declared her as a "role model for women" for her work as a technological executive for her work as a technology executive.

Arasu is noted for her work as an executive sponsor for women in technology at Intuit. She aims at educating, empowering and mentoring women to succeed in a field that is typically dominated by men.

4. Anjul Bhambhri

Anjul Bhambhri completed Electrical Engineering from the University of Delhi. In 2013, Bhambhri was selected by Strata Today as “Your Top Picks” in the Women in Data category. She held the 8th position on Business Insider’s "Most Powerful Female Engineers" list in 2018. At present, Anjul Bhambhri is the Senior Vice President of Platform Engineering at Adobe.

Before joining the company in 2016, she spent 14 years at IBM and most recently served as The Vice President of Engineering for the Big Data and Analytics Platform. She has about 30 years of experience in enterprise technology development and focuses on the establishment of industry leadership in big data, databases and analytics.

5. Aanchal Gupta

Aanchal Gupta earned her Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Technology from NIT Kurukshetra and Master's degree from St. José State University. She is the Vice President of Azure Security, Microsoft and the Director of Security at Facebook. She has also worked as the Chief Information Security Officer for Skype at Microsoft.

She is passionate about scaling security and privacy requirements for agile development by partnering with product, engineering, legal, privacy, customer support, and marketing and enabling them to ship trustworthy and best in class products for users across the globe.

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