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

Globant

Technology leadership for a portfolio of 15+ clients with a consolidated revenue of 18 million euros.

Technical Director

⭐️ I trained more than 800 people with a consolidated rating of 4.8/5 on technical / agile / leadership topics.

➝ Technical Training: clean code, clean architecture, microservices and API design, TDD, web development, testing strategies, data strategies, governance, and more.
➝ Agile Training: agile mindset, iterative delivery, scrum, kanban, agile at scale, facilitation, conflict management, and more.
➝ Curriculum Development: Developed my own trainings for TDD, agile, agile at scale, and conflict management.

Agile and Technical Trainer

Pentalog

⭐️ I assisted multiple businesses (startups / small business / larger organization) in connecting their IT strategy to their business strategy and successfully delivering their roadmaps with an ultimate objective of creating customer value and increasing valuation. 

➝ Audit & Consulting. Conducted audits of multiple companies' product and technology departments, identifying improvement areas, providing actionable recommendations that increased efficiency, and leading those transformations.
➝ Technical Advisory & Benchmarking. Part of a team that developed and implemented a standardized benchmarking system for technology departments, enabling more accurate performance tracking and promoting best practices across the industry. 
➝ Due Diligence. Technical due diligence for multiple M&A deals.
➝ Mentoring. Executive, director, and manager roles.

CTO as a Service; fractional CTO

⭐️ Successfully transformed our information system from operations to supporting our hyper-growth and valuation. An information system containing 250+ solutions ranging from SaaS to custom, internally developed products.  

My main achievements for that period:
➝ Growth. Evolving our information system to support and fuel the company's yearly growth of 20+%
➝ Delivery & Governance. Delivery of multiple innovative products, including new systems to manage delivery on our customer projects, a new skill assessment system, accurate company reporting. I managed a yearly multi-million euro budget, ensuring projects not only met targets but also adhered to financial efficiency and governance standards.
➝ Modern System Architecture. Migration to Azure, adopting DataOps, a new data architecture, data warehouse and speed layers, micro-services, smart micro monoliths, low-code solutions.
➝ Recruitment, staffing and growth. Team of 40+ people.

VP of Engineering / Head of Development

⭐️ Successful delivery for one of the biggest client of our group, a multi-million yearly contract. I led a team of 60+ people with various software development roles and was also part of the client's organization as a Delivery Manager. 

My main achievements for that period:
➝ High Customer Satisfaction. Successfully managed this multi-million contract for a period of 2+ years.
➝ Delivery Management. Coordination of delivery across 8 teams which included activities from roadmap creation to architecture to implementation and delivery. Delivery of new innovative products while maintaining the right focus on previous generation products.

Agile Coach / Delivery Manager

Eurofins

➝ System Rewrite. Re-writing our orders module that processed millions of orders per year with improvements in Ux and performance. 
➝ Forming & Leading Teams. High performance, multicultural teams in Paris, Nantes, and Luxembourg.

Development Team Lead / Scrum Master

Trace One

➝ Team Leading. Teams of 3-8 people.
➝ Technical Innovation. UI architecture transition to AngularJS/MVC4/WebApi for the v5 solution in PLM/Compliance.

Lead .NET Developer / Technical Lead

Digital Data Services SRL

➝ Team Leading. Agricultural Census of 2010 and the Population Census of 2011.
➝ Software Development. Data Collection System for ANCOM (the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communication of Romania).

Lead .NET Developer

➝ Software Development. eSOP the biggest system of statistical data collection for the National Statistics Institute. 
➝ Software Development. First CAPI (Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing) solution for the National Statistics Institute.

.NET Developer

Accenture Technology Solutions

➝ Software Development. Media Player / Music Store Solution for a top Italian Telecom client

I help software companies and their teams get what they want by doing more things with less effort and better quality. 🔥

I do this by consolidating, improving, and reconstructing areas like governance, organization, and delivery and focusing on what matters - 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞. 💡

I am a CTO, Technical Advisor, Agile Coach, and Mentor. 

I am part of two worlds that create winning conditions 
🎯 knowing the appropriate steps to succeed
🎯 doing them. 

Over the years, I delivered great products, led tens of teams, and managed multi-million yearly budgets.

I would be happy to tell you more!

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