Rashi Khurana

Rashi Khurana — VP of Engineering at Backstage. Talks and sessions delivered at UXDX.

Rashi Khurana

VP of Engineering

Backstage

Rashi is a trusted engineering leader with an enviable record of scaling orgs, architectures & people's potential . She has held many executive roles, including Vice President of Engineering at Shutterstock where she oversaw the front end E-commerce, Platform and Mobile engineering teams and most recently as Head of Engineering for influencer platform, LTK. Rashi has helped lead three teams through a technology transformation, all the while managing day-to-day operations of delivering a quality product to customers. Rashi is passionate about managing teams of engineers to deliver above expectations everyday and building resiliency into all initiatives.
Rashi earned a master's degree in Information Technology and Management at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Upon graduation, she worked at Orbitz in Chicago for seven years, before moving to New York City.

Past talks

2 talks · 2 events

2023

UXDX USAMay 2023

Forum

The Role of Engineering in Customer Centric Product Teams

While product owners and user experience designers are usually knee-deep in solving customer-centric problems, the engineering teams that is tasked with building the solutions are too often getting second hand information with a lifeless set of requirements. Most engineers are highly customer-focused. They are constantly trying to get into the heads of the end-users to design effective solutions. This Forum discusses how engineers can get a better understanding of the customer’s needs, and how to be more better equipped to fully understand the problem they are solving.

Rashi Khurana

2019

UXDX EuropeOct 2019

War Room Warrior: How To Manage War Room Situations

Site outages and incidents are par for the course for tech companies. Solving the root cause often involves tense conversations and high-pressure situations. The war room serves as a dedicated space where the most critical team members work through these issues, but what happens when everyone gets in the room? The goal is clear, restore site service as quickly as possible, but there can be many approaches to getting there. In this talk, Rashi Khurana will share best practices in leading teams to troubleshoot issues and navigate incident resolutions. She will address communication strategies, people management, process implementation and managing retroactive evaluations.

Rashi Khurana