Megha Chawla

Megha Chawla has extensive work experience in various roles and companies. Megha is currently the Founder and CEO of Paliq, a position they have held since October 2021. Prior to this, Megha served as the Chief Product Officer at Cresance, an Alchemist and Stanford Start X Incubator Company, from March 2020 to March 2022.

Megha also had a significant tenure at Microsoft, where they held multiple positions. Megha worked as the Director - Azure Global E2E² from January 2020 to February 2020, participating in R&D projects and working on top secret initiatives. Megha then transitioned to the role of Director - Azure, leading complex cross-functional projects and launching large scale multi-year cloud platforms for industries such as Oil & Gas, Telecom, and Technology. Earlier in their Microsoft career, Megha served as a Principal Architect, providing technical and functional support to prospective clients and helping grow one of the company's largest customers.

Before Microsoft, Megha was the Co-Founder and CTO of Vela, where they launched an e-commerce seller management platform and onboarded numerous customers. Megha also served as the Vice President of Product & Engineering at Salesify, Inc. from October 2011 to September 2014, overseeing the launch of a Competitive Intelligence platform.

Additionally, Megha worked at Infinera as a Senior Manager, IT Enterprise Architecture, streamlining systems and automating business processes. Megha served as the Director of Engineering at Right90, delivering APIs and technical solutions for partnerships. Earlier in their career, Megha was a Development Manager at Oracle USA, Inc., leading the launch of CRM and ERP products, and a Senior Software Engineer at Outride Inc., contributing to the development of a personalized search engine that was later acquired by Google.

Overall, Megha Chawla has a diverse background in leadership, product management, architecture, and technical roles, with experience in startups, technology companies, and enterprise software.

Megha Chawla completed their undergraduate education from 1993 to 1997 at J.C. Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA, where they obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering.

In terms of additional certifications, Megha Chawla obtained the following:

- In 2020, they became a Finops Certified Practitioner from the FinOps Foundation.

- In 2017, they received the award "Americas Gold Club - Circle of Excellence" from Microsoft.

- In 2017, they achieved the certification of "Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate: Cloud Platform" from Microsoft.

- In 2017, they successfully completed the "Designing and Implementing Cloud Data Platform Solutions" exam by Microsoft.

- In 2016, they passed the "Building Big Data Solutions on Azure" exam from Microsoft.

- In 2009, they earned the Certified Software Project Manager (CSPM) certification from the University of California, Berkeley.

No specific month was mentioned for the CSPM certification.