About

Kajal Bansala is a Program Manager at MathWorks with 2.87 years of relevant experience in the software development industry. She holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science from Delhi University and a Master of Technology degree in Embedded Systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. Kajal started her career as an EDG Intern at MathWorks, where she engaged with customers to solve their queries and developed a testing tool to reduce QE efforts spent on testing icon rendering. She then transitioned into the role of an EDG Engineer, leading a team of 15+ engineers to engage with customers, report bugs, and gain hands-on experience in online product security, infrastructure, release engineering, and program management. Kajal's passion for program management was ignited during her time at EDG, and she went on to become a Program Manager at MathWorks. In this role, she has led a cross-functional product team of 30 engineers, managed program schedules, and established better development practices to improve productivity and product quality. She specializes in scrum and agile methodologies, risk analysis, root cause analysis, change management, process improvement, planning and forecasting, budgeting, and time management. Kajal's notable achievements include designing an MVP of the Icon Editor, leading 5 usability studies for the product, and leading the companywide migration to Git from perforce, resulting in a 39% efficiency increase in the development process. She also developed an 'Action Grid' to focus on customer queries that require urgent attention, which improved customer satisfaction by 24%. In addition to her professional achievements, Kajal enjoys reading psychological thrillers, biographies, autobiographies, human behavior, and sociology books. She is an adaptable, analytical, dependable, organized, process-driven, strategic, problem solver, and trustworthy colleague who is everyone's go-to.