About

Padmaja Kota is a seasoned Senior Director of Software Engineering with over 18 years of experience in product development and engineering leadership across various domains, including Digital Experience, B2B Commerce, CRM, Supply Chain, Transportation, Education, and Banking. She has a broad range of knowledge and expertise in IT technologies and methodologies, making her an expert in Java, JEE, and Database technologies, including Weblogic Application Server, JBOSS, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2, Hibernate, Java Server Faces, Wicket, TIBCO, JavaFX, and Spring. Padmaja's specialties include Java, JEE, JSF, Wicket, Hibernate, Spring, TestNG, JUnit, Python, PL/SQL, XML, XSLT, FOP, Release Management, Configuration Control, Management, Defect Management, OOAD, Agile, Iterative, Waterfall, UML, and SCRUM. Currently, she is leading a global team of over 30 engineers within Experience Cloud at Salesforce, where she is responsible for building the next generation of highly scalable and visually rich digital experiences. Her responsibilities include product capabilities across Programmatic, Declarative, Personalization, Analytics, and Mobile. Padmaja's past experience includes working as a Technical Architect at JDA Software, where she specialized in Supply Chain Management, and as a Technical Lead at Prokarma, where she led multiple Java/JEE projects following agile methodology. She also shared her technical expertise with the team and helped leverage standards in terms of development, testing, and communication. Her key technologies during this period included Wicket, Spring, TIBCO JMS, and Web Services. Padmaja holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, where she graduated in 2003. She also attended St. Joseph's Convent in Jabalpur, where she completed her secondary education in 1999. Padmaja's tech stack includes Salesforce, SQL, Java, Spring, Senior Software Engineer, Mobile, Python, test, and Web. With 19.54 years of relevant experience, Padmaja is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with a proven track record of success in product development and engineering leadership.