Women in the Tech Part of Tech

Bhavini is a proven software engineering & product leader, with a track record of 18 years of leading cross geo teams of 50+ and billion dollar businesses that deliver innovative products, organizational excellence and business results. She has a diverse spectrum of experience working on two startup products at Microsoft, and was the key member in acquisition and integration of two external startups at Microsoft while having multi-discipline experience in Engineering and Program/Project Management roles. She's then went on to be the CTO and SVP, Engineering for Heal.com, leading a highly diverse team of Software Engineers, Quality Engineers and Product Managers. She's now in charge of all things engineering at Headspace.

Her passion for giving back to the community drove her to take on co-founding Women in Azure and becoming a Board member of Women @ NERD as well as being on the Leadership team of Women in Cloud & Enterprise. She participates in various non-profits to aid children’s education, stop child brides and spread a message of mindfulness.

Janine is a Hudson-certified Executive Coach, aCertified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator, and a Partner with Evolution, which does Executive Coaching, Leadership Training and Culture work for Startups, Tech and High Growth companies such as Slack, Tile, Scopely, Fabfitfun, System1, Kiva and Coursera. In her former career incarnations, she was a startup founder of a tech & product recruiting agency, Fetch Recruiting, focused on high tech, startup and mid market clients. She started off her career in technology, originally coding/consulting for Accenture, then growing to the C-suite, leading all of North American technology for TBWA Chiat/Day, Inc. Advertising, and finally scaling and leading a team of over 50 technologists at DirecTV when it was a startup.

She’s heavily involved in LA’s startup ecosystem, and sits on the board of Women Founders Network, as well as being a mentor for Techstars, Backstage Capital and SAM’s Precellerator. She's taught entrepreneurism in prison, and is a member of Kapor's invite-only Diversity Advocates group. Crazy Dog Lady!