Shine Garg is a former Staff Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience building and scaling complex systems at high-growth technology companies.

Over her career, Shine learned firsthand that technical excellence alone isn’t enough: how you frame and communicate your work directly shapes how it’s valued. 

By mastering context and storytelling, she:

• Up-leveled herself from Senior to Staff, 
• Secured over $500K in additional equity through a single behavioral interview with a VP, and 
• Advanced directly to onsite interviews at Meta after an initial behavioral interview

Today, Shine is the founder of Uncharted Path Breakthroughs, where she coaches Senior, Staff, and Principal engineers through career inflection points from promotions to job transitions. Her work focuses on helping experienced engineers navigate ambiguity, articulate impact, and advocate for themselves with clarity and confidence.

This lightning lesson distills the core mindset shift Shine teaches her 1:1 clients: how to move beyond execution and communicate their work at the level it deserves to be evaluated.