Overview
- Priyanka Vergadia shared a 25-year timeline on X on December 29 that drew roughly 400,000 views and thousands of reactions, according to media reports.
- She recounted failing the IIT entrance exam in 2004 and 2005 before enrolling at a non-IIT college, graduating in 2009, and moving to the University of Pennsylvania for graduate study.
- Early career notes included internship struggles, heavy loans, and a start in quality assurance before shifting to customer-facing engineering roles by 2013–2014.
- She said Google hired her in 2017 and that she later led Developer Advocacy for North America at Google Cloud after finding a fit in developer relations.
- Reports cite her LinkedIn stating she is a Senior Director at Microsoft, joining in 2024 to lead developer strategy for go-to-market, and her post adds that in 2025 she completed a Wharton MBA, published another best-selling book, spoke on the TED stage, and led teams with multi-billion-dollar impact.