About

Suman Ramachandra is a highly experienced Senior Engineering Manager at Target with over 12 years of software development experience, primarily in Java, in diverse domains such as identity management, storage application, financial reporting, and supply chain transportation management. He also has over 1 year of leadership experience in order management systems. Currently, Suman is managing one of the teams for Target's order management system (GOM), which handles orders from both stores and digital traffic. In his previous role as Lead Engineer at Target, he was part of the eMIP program, where he managed a small team and worked on solutions in Target's transportation team (Supply Chain). His tech stacks included Kotlin, Java, Gradle, Kafka, Postgres, and ELK. Prior to joining Target, Suman worked as a Software Engineer III at PayPal, where he developed and owned parts of the systems that generate reports for PayPal Merchants. He was an active member in moving PayPal's sync reports from IBM Cognos to a newer tech stack, Java/Spring Boot/maven/REST/Oracle, as part of the 'Kill Legacy Project', for easier manageability and scalability. He also led the 'PayPal Audit Report', enabling the reporting aspects of the Audit solution, from scratch (Java/Spring Boot/maven/REST). During his tenure, he led multiple POC and reporting gap discoveries. Suman holds an MSc in Software Engineering from PSG College of Technology, where he graduated in 2009. He also attended St. John's English School and Junior College, Besant Nagar, where he completed his undergraduate studies. Suman's tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, Java, Software Engineer, Kafka, Postgres, Backend, Spring Boot, Spring, Spark, Kotlin, Hadoop, and Apache Hive. With 14.54 years of relevant experience, Suman is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer and leader in the industry.