Mona El Mahdy
Co-Founder | GenAI lead | Career Coach | Senior Eng Manager @ Stealth AI Startup | Ex-Google | Ex-Microsoft | Stanford BusinessMona El Mahdy
Co-Founder | GenAI lead | Career Coach | Senior Eng Manager @ Stealth AI Startup | Ex-Google | Ex-Microsoft | Stanford BusinessServices
$260 / month
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MentorCruise summary
Mona is a Co-Founder and GenAI Lead at a stealth AI startup, with 21 years in software engineering and leadership experience at Google and Microsoft. She has led engineering teams, coached managers, and helped teams adopt new technologies. She helps software engineers move into technical leadership, improve people management, and plan career transitions into GenAI.
Based on 9 verified mentee reviews
- Reviewers often praise her patient listening and thoughtful questions that help them see problems from different angles.
- Three reviewers value her practical guidance, including specific next steps for career transitions and difficult work situations.
- Several reviewers credit her experience with helping them reframe growth opportunities, plan career moves, and explore GenAI transitions.
About
After 2 decades in Tech, leading software engineering teams at both Google, Microsoft, studying coaching at Stanford, and co-founding an AI startup, I would love to give back to the community.
Transforming someone's career and helping others unlock their true potentials, has been one of the most rewarding activities in my career.
Have you found growth opportunities hard to come by lately? You are not alone! Let’s work together to fix that for you. Schedule your free session, and I am happy to help.
How can I help you?
1) Are you a leader who is transitioning to be a TL, manager or manager of manager ? I am happy to help you make the successful transition and share my experience growing ICs and leaders to such roles, and how to form high performing teams.
2) Are curious about how to join and accelerate your growth at companies like Microsoft and Google? I am happy to share how I joined Microsoft and Google as software Engineer, grew quickly in both companies starting from Entry level IC at Microsoft to a Senior Engineering manager at Google managing managers, ICs (TLs , Senior and junior engineers).
3) Do you find your self facing difficult situations, need help managing or leading through change, or pivot your teams to a new technology like Gen AI? I am happy to share with you my own experience in both building and using AI based products, building teams & products from scratch, pivoting existing teams, planning OKRS and create a clear vision.
This isn’t “career advice.” It’s the exact framework I used to:
- Lead teams at Google/Microsoft while staying hands-on
- Pivot expertise as tech shifted under my feet
- Negotiate roles where strategy and execution collide
- Get on a fast promotion trajectory at both Microsoft and Google, while successfully switching from IC to TL to Engineering manager roles.
Read more about me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mona-el-mahdy-7b084839/
What mentees say
5 out of 5 stars
Mona is an intuitive listener, thinker, and great mentor who considers multiple aspects and puts a lot of time and effort into understanding the person she wants to help. That makes it a lot of fun to learn from her and her experiences and how they can affect you. I would recommend her to anyone who wants to build their career in tech, and you always leave sessions with Mona with a unique perspective that helps you see the problem differently.
Karim
Standard Plan • 8 months
5 out of 5 stars
Mona is a great mentor. She is very understanding and listening. She give insights from a level that you can't find online by yourself. The world is changing fast. I do think everyone need a mentor beside their manager to know what's going on out there. Mona is one of the best mentor you can ask for.
Christopher
Standard Plan • 10 months
5 out of 5 stars
Mona is a wonderful mentor. She has helped me think through what effective people management looks like, including how to grow people, handle conflicts, manage performance, and use my time more effectively. We were also able to discuss real-life situations I faced in detail, which made the sessions very practical and valuable. I highly recommend her.
Michael
Standard Plan • 2 months
Get to know Mona
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LinkStanford Graduate School of Business Certificate
This certificate was issued through the BCdiploma services and certified on the blockchain.
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Article 5 min readAre Software Engineers becoming obsolete?
Addressing the anxiety of Software Engineers and their concerns about the evolving role of SWEs in the industry.
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What happens when you start
You tell Mona your goals. They see exactly what you want to work on before session one.
You meet within days. Mona reviews your application and books your first session, usually within a day or two.
You leave with a plan. Concrete next steps and a weekly rhythm from your very first week.
