Meet Our Mentors: Padmaja Vrudula

Padmaja Vrudula
Vice President, Solution Innovation at Snowflake

I run an innovation team focused on emerging tech at Snowflake, a cloud data platform.

“It is important to share experiences and build the next round of leaders.”

As a mentor, I excel at…

• Career development
• Leadership
• Tech strategy

When I have free time, I…

read.

The best career decision I’ve made was…

to focus on product organizations rather than services or shared services teams like corporate IT.

My motto/tagline is…

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds of distance run (paraphrasing Kipling).

I once waited in line for…

Stephen Jay Gould’s autograph.

Originally published at https://blog.foster.uw.edu on February 1, 2022.