Run Toward the Fire
How a Code Warrior Builds Teams, Trust, and Courage When Everything Is Burning
$50.99
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
12 January 2027
Summary
This book is for the engineering manager whose team is on fire, the senior IC who is being pushed into leadership and isn’t sure she wants it, the parent building a career in the margins between school pickups and stand-ups, and the woman in a room where she is still the only one.
From a dusty garage in Indore, India, to the escalation rooms of Microsoft, Creena Mehta’s journey is a story of grit, trust, and running toward the fires others tend to avoid. Raised by a father who taught …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798999755087 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Creena Mehta |
| Publisher: | 8080 Books |
| Imprint: | 8080 Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 12 January 2027 |
| Weight: | 304g |
| Dimensions: | 127mm x 203mm |
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Creena Mehta
Creena Mehta is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft, based in Vancouver, Canada. Over 25 years in the software industry, she has built and led high-performing engineering teams across five companies and three continents, beginning her career in Indore, India, and spanning organizations including Intel, Cisco, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Microsoft. In her current role, she leads PowerPoint Live (PPTL) — the feature that lets millions of presenters share slides directly inside Microsoft Teams meetings. Prior to PPTL, she shipped features like Teams Video Clips and Bing Visual Search in Photos.
In Microsoft India, she led cross-geo engineering for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service, where she grew customer-satisfaction levels in a matter of months and shipped flagship features like Inspections and ML-based Similar Case Prediction. She also worked across Project Service and Customer Service, holding various portfolios in Microsoft Bangalore. She holds a Master’s in Information Technology from IIT Bombay, with a research focus on machine learning and data mining.
A three-time hackathon winner in Vancouver and recipient of Microsoft’s Customer Obsession award, she is known for building self-driven, customer-obsessed teams in highly challenging environments.
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