United States

Technical Product Management

Data Product Management

Platform Product Management

Back-end

Data engineering

AI/ML Engineering

Systems Design

University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

Wharton Executive Education

Visveswaraya Technological University

Gajendra Babu Thokala

Senior Engineering Manager

Communication

Collaboration

Critical-thinking

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

AI/ML

Cloud computing

Machine learning

Airflow

Apache Spark

Docker

Java

TensorFlow

gRPC

REST API

Kafka

Problem-solving

Project management

Public Speaking

Negotiation

Design systems

Product strategy

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

Led large-scale metadata and AI platforms powering personalization for 100M+ daily users, cutting refresh SLAs from 60 hours to minutes and contributing to $9B in annual revenue growth. Drove AIML initiatives to improve knowledge-graph accuracy, trust, and data governance, while delivering highly reliable, real-time streaming systems processing billions of events daily. Built and scaled global teams, mentored senior engineers into staff/principal and M1/M2 roles, and partnered with executives to define multi-year platform roadmaps, KPIs, and cross-org standards across Apple.

Led the design and delivery of large-scale data governance and metadata platforms at Microsoft, enabling enterprise-wide compliance (GDPR, CCPA) and powering analytics across cloud services. Drove high-impact engineering initiatives that improved data lineage, discovery, and trust while delivering measurable cost savings at scale. Partnered closely with product, legal, and executive stakeholders, built and mentored high-performing teams, and helped establish engineering best practices for operating mission-critical, globally distributed data platforms.

Designed and implemented multiple critical projects. 

Gajendra Babu Thokala🇺🇸

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