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.