Gowri Grewal is a technology product & operations executive who recently took up Python web development at San Francisco's prestigious Hackbright Academy. Over the past 20 years, Gowri has held individual and management roles spanning engineering, product management, sales strategy, operations and account management for Fortune 500 companies including HP, VERITAS and Symantec. She has also advised several early-stage start-ups. Gowri is currently an independent product management consultant, advising start-ups and established software companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds S.B. and M.Eng. degrees in EECS from MIT, and an MBA from Wharton.