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Microsoft Leader’s 25-Year Career Timeline Goes Viral After IIT Failures

Her year-by-year post shows how role pivots turned early setbacks into senior leadership across engineering, DevRel, go-to-market.

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.