As Lightspeed's Chief Technology Officer, Bhawna Singh leads the company’s engineering organization and technology strategy. She brings over 25 years of experience building and scaling enterprise software platforms across identity, consumer platforms, and data-driven products.

Before joining Lightspeed, Ms. Singh served as CTO at Okta, where she led the engineering organization for a platform supporting billions of secure authentications per month. During her tenure, she drove the evolution of Okta’s customer identity platform to meet increasingly complex enterprise requirements and advanced the integration of AI across product and engineering to support next-generation identity systems and faster software delivery.

Prior to that, as CTO of Glassdoor, she led a global engineering and data organization. She modernized the company’s technology platform, enabled international expansion, and expanded the use of data and machine learning to enhance product experiences.

Based in San Francisco, Ms. Singh holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and a Master’s degree in Computer Applications from Gujarat University, as well as a Master’s degree in Software Engineering from San José State University. She serves on the board of Generation: You Employed, Inc.