About

Sumit Rao is an accomplished executive professional with almost two decades of experience in designing and developing large-scale applications. Currently serving as the Head of Engineering at Netmeds.com, Sumit is a proven leader with a track record of building and mentoring high-performance teams to deliver quality and highly complex solutions in fast-changing environments. Sumit's expertise lies in stakeholder management and working closely with CXOs to define technology and product roadmaps that deliver business results. He has also created a digital transformation plan and ideated to enhance platform capabilities to make Netmeds the best e-pharmacy in India. Sumit's ability to build teams from scratch, hire top talent, and lead and grow a talented agile team of 100+ engineers comprising software architects, senior engineering managers, developers, product managers, DevOps, data engineers, and data scientists sets him apart. Sumit has scaled and delivered engineered applications across financial services, high tech SAAS providers, healthcare, and e-commerce. He has maintained high morale and motivated engineers to go above and beyond, with attrition rates of less than 5%. Sumit fosters a culture of high performance and high engineering standards, reducing P1 issues by more than 100% quarter-on-quarter and reducing latency. Sumit has also worked with companies like Athenahealth and ServiceNow, where he served as an Engineering Leader. He has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Doctor Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University. Netmeds.com is a fully licensed e-pharma portal that offers authenticated prescription and over-the-counter medicine along with other health products. Through Netmeds, consumers get access to more than 70,000 prescription drugs for chronic and recurring ailments as well as enhanced lifestyle drugs and thousands of non-prescription goods for wellness, health, and personal care. Sumit's contribution to Netmeds has been instrumental in serving more than 5.7 million customers in more than 670 cities and towns.