About

Vartika Agarwal is a Senior Technical Program Manager at Google with over 17 years of experience in managing large-scale infrastructure projects, building and leading high-powered teams of senior engineers and program managers, and establishing automated yet flexible processes. She is a trusted organizational leader with a proven ability to bring alignment and impact by influencing product direction, managing external and internal client relationships, and balancing cross-functional priorities. In her current role at Google, Vartika leads the program teams responsible for Gmail and Google Chat, where she works closely with Product and Engineering executive teams to ensure that the organization can balance the requirements of its end-to-end stack on all platforms while balancing privacy and security constraints. She manages internal and external client relationships, establishes efficient processes for seamless execution, and takes a data-driven approach to decision-making to understand the impact of products on clients and users. Prior to her role at Google, Vartika worked as a Senior Engineering Manager at Yahoo, where she was responsible for stability, security, and support of production and development Linux operating systems and related installation and virtualization tools. She was also responsible for strategic alignment with partner groups and a strong proponent for the use and adoption of open-source software, tools, and methodologies. Vartika has a strong academic background in software development life cycle and a passion for open-source platform projects and processes. She holds a Master of Science degree from the State University of New York and a Bachelor of Engineering from Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College. She also completed the Stanford Advance Project Management, Business Development & Strategy program from Stanford University. Vartika's tech stack includes infra, software engineering, Android, iOS, search, UI, web, senior software engineering, Puppet, and Docker. With her leadership skills, technical expertise, and experience managing complex projects and teams, Vartika is a valuable asset to any organization she works with.