Natalie Cervantes is a product and engineering leader with 20 years of experience delivering large-scale digital products across startups, boutique agencies, and enterprise companies. She has led programs and built teams for clients and organizations including Microsoft, Cruise, and Amazon, shipping products that reached millions of users.

Her career spans QA engineering, co-founding a video sharing startup, and leading cross-functional teams through complex web transformations, platform migrations, and organizational change.

Natalie built this course from hard-won experience. After years of navigating resistant stakeholders, and high-stakes rooms, she developed the influence instincts she wishes someone had taught her at the start of her career.