Mounica Veggalam

Mounica Veggalam, Leadership Coach

Most impactful leadership lies at the intersection of:
- Personal growth
- Showing up with strong presence
- Learning to connect and lead other humans

I support leaders to scale their impact and create business results by guiding them through the above areas.

Career and Leadership Coach

Microsoft

I often get asked, “How are you a leadership coach when you haven’t been a manager yourself?”

The leadership I talk about is not strategic or tactical.

It’s self-leadership.

Your career trajectory — whether you reach C-Suite heights, or stay stuck in the middle — it starts with you. With what’s going on inside you.

This is the powerful lesson I realized at Microsoft. 

I observed inadequate leadership, average leadership, and excellent leadership. 

I was in heated design discussion rooms, witnessed managers make technical choices from their insecurities, and noticed the best empathetic leaders lost in overwhelm without any recognition.

I also saw powerful leadership from people who challenged the status quo. And challenged their own beliefs.

They were the people who did the right thing
- even when they’re anxious,
- even when they’re frustrated,
- even when they were at the edge of saying, “screw this sh**”

Your frustrations, disappointments, and resentments are where your growth opportunities lie.

When you understand and transform your inner landscape, your capacity for leadership expands, and you'll see the outside results: the promotion, the better project, and the better titles.

That’s the best way to make an impact in this world.

This is transformational leadership.

If you want to learn to lead your people from the inside-out, reach out and we’ll talk.

I am deeply invested in my personal transformation and leadership. That’s how I’m a leadership coach. That’s how I lead my clients to discover entirely new ways of presenting themselves.

I offer trainings, coaching and deep personal transformation, so you can feel fulfilled in your leadership mission. Send me a private message and we’ll chat.

Software Engineer

Practice Fusion

One of my mentors there asked, “Would you rather teach your kids to be smart or to be kind?”

What if I could do both?

With that question, I realized how starkly I’m drawn to deep philosophical concepts and the nature of the human mind. 

And this realization would set it in years later. But I didn’t know that then.

This internship was my entry into the software engineering world. 

It was incredible, surrounded by brilliant people in the startup culture. This is where I released my first feature into production, had my first exceptional manager, and gave my first talk in front of 200 smart people (I was terrible). 

It paved the way for another incredible role at Microsoft.

I won’t lie— I was arrogant about my IQ and my ability to grasp technical concepts quickly.

But I also had crippling self-doubt and introversion that got in the way of my impact.

Even through all that, a couple of things are common today:
— I value people and human connection. Regardless of my arrogance and self-doubt.
— I’m constantly pushing myself beyond my comfort zone. No matter how scary it is.
— I always look at my side of things. Even when I don’t want to. Especially when I don’t want to.

Today, this helps me serve my clients powerfully, 
— I point to the truth at the risk of them not liking me.
— I can deeply support them in facing the risks and uncertainities.
— I invest time and energy in confronting my beliefs and blindspots, so they don’t have to manage my ego.

It's a deeply rewarding experience.

Software Development Engineer Intern

Life & leadership coach for professionals, leaders and entrepreneurs | Software engineer turned coach & inner-work guide

Hi there! 👋 I’m Mounica. I help visionary tech leaders fast-track their careers so they can create more impact, build stronger teams, and bring their vision to reality, all with joyful life-balance.

I’m a software engineer turned transformational coach. Throughout my career, I was driven and confident on the outside. I achieved accolades, promotions, and patents. On the side, I tried to handle all my dissatisfaction with life through meditation and spiritual studies.

But none of that changed the *experience of life.*

I was always looking into the future for everything to settle down. My conversations lacked joy. I was subtly controlling in my relationships so I didn't break down. I was obsessed with achievement. 

Now I have a general sense of creative joy while taking up big projects. And I'm more present with my family.

It wasn't an overnight transformation (nothing worthwhile ever is). I approach this work from an intersection of developmental psychology (think ontological leadership and Robert Kegan's constructive map) and Eastern non-dual spirituality. 

Here are 3 levels of transformation you can expect through working with me:
1. Embodying your leadership voice & an internal compass, so you show Executive Presence.
2. Holding multiple, often conflicting, perspectives, so you bring a vision you deeply desire to reality.
3. Holding multiple identities, so you find creative joy in every choice you make (and have you ready for non-dual interconnected perception of the world).

This work is not about adding knowledge or skills but creating a *fundamentally different kind of mind* that takes the largest perspective, is more complex, and can handle more uncertainty.

My clients report:
- Influence without losing their ethics or empathy
- Command respect in a room full of brilliant (or skeptical) people
- Have ease, joy, and fun creating the results they want

If you’re curious, send me a DM!

Helping tech managers fast-track their careers with personalized 1:1 coaching.

I help with -
- Making tough career decisions
- Landing the next big role and making a vertical moves
- Transforming into a leader who delivers, impacts, and inspires.

Management skills and Relationships come easy to people managers. But what sets you apart is the Leadership mindset. I help managers become leaders and achieve their career goals along the way. 

The typical titles of my clients include:
- Engineering Manager
- Director of Engineering/Program/Product Management
- PM Manager
- Senior/Principal Engineers/PM

SMBC MANUBANK

Lead Tech Product Manager/PO  | Commercial Banking | Digital Transformation

American Express

Group Tech Product Manager - Next Gen Big Data Lumi

Sr Tech Product Manager - Global Risk Compliance & Technology

Sr Tech Product Manager - Financial Data Engineering

Sr Tech Product Manager - Mobile Applications/Enterprise Data Analytics

RECIPROCITY ROI, LLC

Director, Technical Product Management | FAST TV & OTT Platform

Bloxoffice

BloxOffice is a TVOD streaming platform that contains, integrates and manages the lifecycle of the entire crowdfunding movie experience using state of art blockchain technology right from allowing first-of-its-kind movie ticket sales based on tokenomics, to a decentralized OTT experience, as well as managing the underlying intellectual property rights associated with it. The Video content curation will be based on the world's first market-driven tokenomics-based rating system for each movie project that directly connects the monetary value of the viewing experience with the content's inherent quality.

* Partnering with the leadership team to drive adoption of PM best practices and design development sprint to deliver features aimed at higher adoption faster
* Defined product strategy, roadmap and features aligned with a business strategy focused on new client acquisition and revenue growth

Product Strategy Consultant | Advisory Board | TVOD Platform

YuppTV Inc.

Products/Projects: YuppFlix, Mini-Theatre, YuppTV Originals, FAST tv and B2B Partnerships & Integrations

•	Led global team of 40+ employees for product/project management, engineering to design, develop, launch enterprise-grade OTT products
•	Responsible for building OTT products from scratch - YuppFlix (SVOD), Live TV, Mini-Theatre (TVOD) on the web, android & iOS mobile Apps, setup boxes & smart TV platforms 
•	Drove the strategy & roadmap of the product by collaborating with the C-suite, business development, engineering, product design, analytics & intelligence, finance, legal, customer support & content operations teams to execute product vision and also to bring new product ideas and features to the market
•	Sketched out the entire user journey and UI/UX prototyping for seamless and smooth user experience
•	Advocated & implemented a single subscription plan for YuppFlix
•	Led Business to Business (B2B) VOD product & PaaS/SaaS integrations and planned go-to-market strategy with leading OTT players & telecom carrier billing operators
•	Spearheaded the market research and competitor analysis to update, redesign and develop the platform with modern technologies
•	Monitored the end-consumer behavior to help make the right business decisions and to maintain the cross-BU value across the business units by using data science, business intelligence and by conducting AB testing results
•	Led the content acquisition strategy and placed all types of VOD content on the application interfaces and led the pricing strategy for each type of product offering
•	Managed a team working on video engineering and video streaming technologies: HLS/MPEG DASH encoding and URL encryption
•	Conceptualized and implemented the Digital Rights Management (DRM) & forensic invisible watermarking to ensure content security for all the video content on YuppTV/YuppFlix applications
•	External Stakeholder Management: Collaborated with media, television, films & originals content creators

Head of Tech Product Management & Integrations - VOD & OTT Streaming Platforms

Tech Product Manager/PO - YuppFlix/SVOD Platform

Comviva

Projects: Mobile Data Platform (MDP), OTT Carrier Billing, Charging Proxy, Mobile Internet Gateway (MIG) and Multimedia Messaging Service Center (MMSC)

Responsibilities: 
•	Single Point of Contact for all Client requirement gathering and analysis
•	Responsible for End to End Support of the Product
•	Put to use latest software tools, strong database concepts and design techniques to make the product more scalable
•	Utilized internal Project Management tool, Compass to deliver the Milestones on time and provided training to other teams on this tool
•	Identify barriers that potentially impact product availability and work effectively to resolve issues and ensure products remain competitive and effective
•	Led a team of developers and QA Engineers during the project

Tech Product Manager/Scrum Master - OTT Streaming & Billing Services

Projects: WAP gateway, Mobile Internet Gateway (MIG), SMS Gateway, and Multimedia Messaging Gateway (MMSC) 

Responsibilities: 

. Requirement Analysis: Understanding the requirements of the client and act as a sole functional resource
. Developed MM1, MM4 interfaces in the receive server
. Worked on the worker queue of receive server to increase the performance
. Developed on http and UDP based billing interface in mediation server
. Worked on database module to increase the performance of dispatchers
. Worked on Perl script for reporting in to excel sheets 
. Worked on shell scripting for installation module

Extra Curricular Activities: 
. Under CSR, I have been a part of NGO named "ACT" in the company
. Member in the Sports Club

Senior Software Engineer - Global Service Solutions

Filmable

Filmable is a technology platform for all short film/upcoming artists to give a kick start in their career. Took live a budding idea to build a social platform for short film makers/upcoming artists. Coordinated in development of the product, defined release cycles, organized business flows and various revenue streams possible from the implementation. Interacted with people in southern movie industry and Indian youtubers to see a possible merger.

Co-Founder | Director

Nokia

Projects: Circuit Switched Voice Over High-Speed Packet Access-Channel Type Switching and Blind IFHO (Blind Intra Frequency Hand Over)

Responsibilities: 
•	Executed large initiatives from idea to go-live, developed the vision, identified & managed stakeholders
•	Partnered with teams to come up with high-level solution approach using Point of Departure (POD) and Point of Arrival (POA) diagrams, break high-level needs into prioritized features, and manage all the project deliverables across all phases of the SDLC; played a key role in transforming Waterfall to Agile software methodology
•	Coached and reinforced scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stakeholders
•	Worked on user interface design and development using HTML, Java & CSS3
•	Designed test cases for all the channel type switching scenarios
•	Engaged in Product Enhancements, Module Testing and Bug fixing

R & D - Business Systems Analyst

National Institute of Technology Warangal

Event Manager for TePP associated with Science & Technology Entrepreneurs Park, IIT Kharagpur.

https://www.step-iit.org/tepp.html

Event Manager - Technopreneur Promotion Program (TePP)

Lakshya - An NITW alumni led non-profit organization

Student Volunteer, The Lakshya Foundation

Overall hospitality & logistics coordinator for Technozion Fest at NIT Warangal

Core Committee Member - Technozion Fest

Core Committee Member - SpringSpree Fest

CS Department Rep | NITW Student Council Rep

Secretary - Film Club 

Additional Secretary - Centre for Value Education Club

Responsibilities:

• Representative of the institute for corporate interactions
• Facilitating training and placement activities of the students
• Organizing lectures for students from Corporate leaders

Training & Placement Coordinator - Corporate Relationships & Management

Database Automation Intern

Tech Product Management & Strategy | PMP l SAFE POPM | CSM l OTT l VOD Streaming | FAST tv | PaaS | Fintech l Commerical Banking | 3G/4G Wireless | Tech & Startup Savvy | NIT Warangal

Vision-driven, accomplished product and project management professional with over 15 years of experience in managing end-to-end SDLC deliverables. Track record of success in e-commerce, finance technology, Over-The-Top (OTT), Internet Protocol Television (IP TV), video streaming, SaaS, PaaS, corporate travel, enterprise cloud, wireless telecommunication (WCDMA) domains. Skilled in B2B & B2C products development and launches utilizing business requirement analysis, product ideation, product strategy, road-mapping, design thinking, agile project management methodologies, risk mitigation, data visualization, project delivery and portfolio management. Hands-on leadership experience with high success in developing leaders and building cross-functional teams to enhance organizational capability. Proven history of converting learnings from user insights into tangible product features that users love. Strong Analytical & engineering professional with a Degree (B-Tech) in Computer Science Engineering from NIT Warangal.

As a hands-on product manager, I learn and reinvent myself every day about new technologies, tools, changing market trends, moving patterns, and shifting behaviors of the human being. My conviction is product management is directly proportional to the growth of technology. 

The product manager in me constantly thinks about value for the user and bottom line for the business together. It strives hard to craft meaningful products for the users despite all the constraints. To do all this I heavily use data (in all forms) to persuade, dissuade, negotiate, and influence with all stakeholders. In my everyday job, I heavily collaborate with the C-suite to growth hack the business using strategic design.

I love problems, so loving problem solvers is imperative. I use my experience responsibly to craft engineers, testers, designers, and product team leaders globally via education, writing, speaking, doing, and mentoring. Product management is more than a passion and a profession for me.

Business, Design, Product, Project, Engineering and Data are interrelated. For a problem solver, one without the other is not holistic. I dabble at the intersection of product management, project management, data analysis, business requirement analysis, engineering, and technology. 

I love to make new professional acquaintances. Reach out to me if you want to talk about any Product, Design, Project, Entrepreneurial ideas, Technology, Innovation, Travel & Movies.

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