She turned a team that dreaded standups into one that actually talked to each other. No framework, just trust.

Fatima Sheikh
Engineering Manager at PhonePe
PhonePe
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She turned a team that dreaded standups into one that actually talked to each other. No framework, just trust.

Engineering Manager at PhonePe
PhonePe
Said 'that's my call, not yours' the one time a deploy broke. Took the heat so the intern didn't.

Staff Engineer at Swiggy
Swiggy

Reviewed my PRs like he was teaching, not gatekeeping. I learned more in his comments than in two years of college.

Staff Engineer at Swiggy
Swiggy

She blocked a launch to protect the on-call team's weekend. First manager who treated burnout as a real bug.

Director of Engineering at CRED
CRED
He gave me the hardest problem on the team and the air cover to fail at it twice before I got it right.

VP Engineering at Razorpay
Razorpay

Calm in chaos. The night payments went down he stayed on the call, never raised his voice, and we shipped the fix by morning.

VP Engineering at Razorpay
Razorpay