About Sheetal Narwal – Ottawa City Councillor Candidate, Ward 6 Stittsville

For twenty years, I've built things people rely on. All of them in the real world.

I came to Canada with two computer science degrees and got to work. I helped build the Microsoft datacenters used by millions every day. I helped protect Ontario's healthcare cyber-infrastructure, which taught me what cyber resilience actually costs — in dollars, in attention, in sleepless nights — and how much harder it is to build trust in a public system than a private one. I led a Canadian security company as its CEO, built the team, scaled the business, created jobs across multiple provinces and made the hard calls along the way. In an industry that runs on trust, I made sure we earned ours every single day.

I served as Board Director at YWCA Durham alongside people doing some of the hardest, most necessary work; supporting women and families through housing crises, gender-based violence, and the kind of economic precarity that's gotten louder, not quieter.

In every one of those jobs, the rule was the same: when you fail, real people get hurt. You don't get to spin your way out. You fix it, or you're done.