Eesha Mulky
Eesha Mulky is a Senior Software Engineer at Google, where she has spent over a decade building and scaling large-scale infrastructure and AI-driven engineering solutions. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she began her journey at Google as a new graduate and has grown into a technical leadership role focused on strategy and product development across multiple domains. Her work spans Google Cloud, Google Assistant, Gemini integrations for Google Home devices, and currently Google Ads, where she helps shape product direction and engineering execution at scale.
Throughout her career at Google, she has played a key role in defining advertising strategy and developing tools and AI agents that support product decision-making. Her work focuses on enabling deeper analysis of product performance, understanding customer needs, identifying gaps in user experience, and driving solutions that improve outcomes for users and stakeholders. One of her notable milestones includes leading the launch of productivity journeys fully integrated with Gemini for Google Home devices, including smart speakers and displays, advancing how users interact with AI-powered home experiences.
Eesha is especially passionate about “zero-to-one” problem solving—taking ambiguous, complex challenges and transforming them into structured, scalable solutions from concept through implementation. She thrives in environments that require deep systems thinking, brainstorming, and iterative design, where early ideas evolve into impactful products. With a strong foundation in networking, distributed systems, and AI infrastructure, she brings both technical depth and product intuition to her work, and remains deeply appreciative of the opportunities and growth she has experienced throughout her tenure at Google.
• University of Mumbai - BE, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
• North Carolina State University - MS, Master's Degree, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications
• Trophy for Academic Excellence
• Certificate of Merit
• Rolling trophy for academic excellence
What do you attribute your success to?
I attribute my success to perseverance, because I am the kind of person who just cannot give up. If I try something and it fails, I'll keep trying again till it succeeds. It is one of my personal traits that I just go on trying. I'll try every possible way to make it a success. I think just not giving up, holding on to your dream, and holding on to your beliefs, and kind of trying till it succeeds has been critical to everything I have accomplished.
What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The best career advice I have received is to focus on building relationships with your partner teams and focusing on building yourself as a better engineer, rather than being focused on what projects can take you to the next milestone growth-wise. I learned that building relationships with teams, building trust with our users and trust with other teams, and getting to a place where there is enough credibility is more important. Once you build that credibility, then your career grows by default. I think generally showing your strengths in the most positive ways, highlighting them, and building your strengths day by day is critical in growing.
What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I would say that tech is definitely a male-dominated industry, although we are seeing more and more women enter the workforce for tech. For women, they should definitely make sure to always voice their opinions, even if they are the only women in the room. I feel that men definitely act before thinking, so even if a man feels that he might not be good enough, he will still ask for that promotion, still ask for that project. But if a woman has self-doubt, she will be more reservative in asking for aggressive projects or to be in the right room. I think self-doubt for women has been very critical, especially in male-dominated areas, so my advice is to overcome that and speak up.
What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
Right now, the biggest opportunity in the industry is definitely AI, artificial intelligence, because everybody is thinking about how we can integrate more AI agents into our products and into our infrastructure, and how can we amplify our impact by using AI. The biggest challenge is maintaining importance for your role in an AI-driven world and differentiating your work from what AI can do. What is it that AI cannot do, and what you can do? I think there are a lot of things like cross-team communication, or higher level roles where you have to figure out what the problem is, and then maybe an agent can help you solve it, but it can't figure out what the big gaps are. Having that cross-team communication, having that large-scale picture of how things work, and in a company like Google which uses a lot of their own custom tools, there's a lot of opportunity for engineers to show their value through Google-specific knowledge, Google-specific tools, and basically ideating what the next steps inside Google should be.
What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Integrity is a big one. I feel that integrity is something I live by in my personal life, and I have tried to do it in my professional life for the past 10 years. Being reliable for the teams I work with, for the people who work under me, and the people who work with me in projects, and being reliable at home as well, so that my family members can always count on me. I would also say I am very ambitious. I see myself as a very ambitious person who wants to go big and get to the next level, always thinking about what can more help our users. Even as a family, I am very ambitious about doing things as a family, traveling around, and what should be our next goals in life.