Overview
- Vergadia’s X post shares a year‑by‑year account from twice failing the IIT entrance exam to senior leadership in global tech.
- Her path includes graduating in India, moving to the United States in 2009 for study at the University of Pennsylvania, and starting in quality assurance while managing loans.
- She shifted into customer‑facing engineering roles, joined Google in 2017, and later led Developer Advocacy for North America at Google Cloud.
- In 2024 she moved to Microsoft to lead developer strategy for go‑to‑market, followed in 2025 by a Wharton MBA, a best‑selling book, a TED talk, and claims of multi‑billion‑dollar team impact.
- The post drew thousands of responses and over 400,000 views, with many readers describing the timeline as motivational for unconventional career paths.