About

Soumil Rao is an engineer turned start-up Co-founder with a passion for solving problems through technology. He has experience across Software Engineering, Agile Scrum, Digital Marketing, Hiring, Team and Process Management as well as Operations. Currently, Soumil is the Co-founder and Engineering Manager at WorkIndia, where he manages a team of 20 engineers spanning an experience range of 0 to 6 years. He has implemented Agile Scrum methodology to streamline requirement gathering and task allocation from Product Managers. Soumil has worked closely with PMs to build a product backlog, run sprint plannings and daily scrums. He has also hired, onboarded and mentored individuals of the engineering team through processes like biweekly 1-on-1 meetings. Soumil adopted metrics like say:do ratio and change fail percentage for tracking engineering productivity. He also undertook appraisal and performance feedback conversations. In the past, Soumil has worked as a Digital Marketing Manager at WorkIndia, where he managed the entire digital marketing effort for WorkIndia in this period. He has also worked as a Co-Founder and Core Team Member at WorkIndia, where he was part of the Core team, currently working on key strategic projects alongside the CEO. He has streamlined the hiring process, run a hiring war room, and set up a Talent Acquisition team. Soumil has also driven the hiring process for key leadership positions and implemented the OKR framework across the firm. He has worked closely with L0 & L1 leaders to identify key levers and dependencies to ensure the firm's objectives are measured quantitatively and achieved. Soumil has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering from Bhartiya Vidya Bhavans. He has 9.35 years of relevant experience and is a Senior Software Engineer.