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

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Technical Writer

MultiSafepay

As the sole Technical Writer at MultiSafepay, I  provide technical documentation support and maintain MultiSafepay Docs using Docs-as-Code.

Rendani Luvhengo

- Bringing 5+ concepts and designs to life with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Reactjs.
- Optimize and design technology stack by project needs.
- Optimize a load of resources and the fluidity of the page so that users have the best experience.

Freelance Frontend Developer

PwC España

In a team of 10+ engineering, I developed a landing page for management software that was used internally by more than 1200 users.
Supported my team during full software lifecycles, including concept, design, implementation, deployment, testing, and release.
Collaborated closely with a multifunctional team to fix UI issues that were reported from the backlog to production using Agile principles.
Employing modern JavaScript (ES6+) as well as Web Standards knowledge and best practices in order to deliver on the customer requirements with excellent application performance. 
Dealing with a huge legacy code base, required to do the appropriate updates and at the same time deliver on the new feature. 
Working in a multifunctional team collaborating across the stack using Agile principles. 
Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Node.js, Express, SASS, GraphQL, CI/CD, AWS(EC2, S3), SQL, Restful APIs, Git, Jenkins, Microfrontends, Server-side Rendering, Jira, Confluence

Frontend Developer

Delpero Freight

Developed the login page layout UI for dashboards to production in 2 weeks-sprint.
Collaborated with a cross-functional team of 5+ developers in an Agile environment using best practices.
Designed the admin layout following UI principles and design thinking using Figma.

Frontend Developer 

South African Weather Service

Successfully led and trained teams of 60+ in collaboration with the IT department for a Sharepoint portal integration decreasing work duplication.
Improved surveillance audit by 30% after developing training materials for internal auditors following ISO 9001:2019 standards.
Implemented an improved process to map documents into the SHEQ portal on SharePoint for 22 offices.
Communicate, mediate, and document issues raised by stakeholders within the organization.

Quality Officer

DEKRA

NDT Technician

ACTOM (Pty) Ltd

Conduct quality or check thicknesses using Wall Thickness testing on a maintenance side.

Steinmueller

Conduct tests to ensure quality or check thickness using NDT methods of inspection in the turbine.

Freelance NDT Technician

Conducts tests to ensure quality or detect discontinuities(defects) using NDT methods of inspection in the boiler.

MT&PT Level 2 Technician

De-tect inspection

WT and MT&PT level 2 Technician

Hi, My name is Rendani, and I am a Technical writer. 

My experience includes over two years in front-end development, working with cross-functional teams in an agile environment. Before that, I worked in quality management for over three years, developing and maintaining documentation for over 22 offices.

I seek positions that allow me to utilize my diverse experience in development and quality management, along with an interest in documentation advocacy and using docs-as-code. 

Expertise in development of training | process planning and management | front-end development | collaboration with cross-functional and diverse teams | communication with stakeholders, in-depth reporting | document control | identifying opportunities to enhance process effectiveness.

Technologies and tools : HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, SASS, CI/CD, Restful APIs, Git, Markdown,Miro, Figma, Docusaurus

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