Neha Batra
VP Of Engineering at Motif
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeha Batra is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building developer tools and consumer-facing products from startup to scale, currently serving as VP of Engineering in San Francisco. She spent a decade at GitHub rising through roles from engineering manager to VP of Core Productivity, where she led Desktop and CLI teams, launched products in beta, and presented at GitHub Universe. Neha blends hands-on full‑stack engineering—contributing UI and preferences work to the widely used GitHub Desktop project—with strategic leadership in product, hiring, and research-driven development. Her background spans fast-paced startups and consulting (Pivotal Labs, Rent the Runway, Floored) and includes energy systems analytics early in her career, reflecting a quantitative, systems-minded approach to product problems. Actively engaged in the community, she has served on boards for the Rails Foundation and diversity-focused Write/Speak/Code, signaling commitment to open source and inclusive tech leadership.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mechanical Engineering - Energy, BS Mechanical Engineering - Energy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
english (native), spanish (full professional proficiency), hindi (full professional proficiency)
Github Skills (12)
uid10
git10
typescript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
electron10
react10
typescript-types10
github9
javascript9
github-desktop9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
desktop/desktop
Dec 2017 - Jan 2020
Focus on what matters instead of fighting with Git.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:93 commits, 59 PRs, 90 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Neha primarily contributed to the user interface and preferences settings within the desktop application. They implemented identifier rules to validate user input in the Git name and email fields, including error messages and disabling save functionality. These changes involved modifications to the `preferences.tsx` and `identifier-rules.ts` files, along with related unit tests. Furthermore, the user worked on integrating pull request functionality, including the addition of a remote and branch creation.
fightingelectronmattersgithub-desktoptypescript
nerdneha/test
Jan 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:4 PRs, 2 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 2 months
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