About

Sumithra D is a technology and business leader with over 22 years of experience in launching, building, and growing businesses. She is an expert in stakeholder management, leading teams, agile methodologies, lean portfolio management, scrum, and kanban. She has experience in offshore teams, agile coaching, value stream mapping, business process optimization, mentoring, coaching, facilitation, lean budgets, minimum viable product, business analysis, business analytics, customer-centric, data-driven, and results-focused. Sumithra has helped launch new products with market capitalization of up to $200 Million. She is a great team player with the ability to adapt to any situation and lead teams of size 70 people. She is an expert in aligning people systems with processes and software systems to help scale businesses. She has experience in health care, entertainment, music, retail, eCommerce, online marketing, social media marketing, financial services, food, and wellness, and beauty. Currently, Sumithra is working as a Program Manager at boossti, where she promotes an agile environment focusing on maximizing business value and empowering teams resulting in a work environment of trust, flexibility, and productivity. She is a certified scrum master and has worked on MERN projects, Shopify Projects, SAP projects, Microsoft Dynamics Projects, Java projects, Google, Amazon, and Azure Cloud experience. She has experience in health care, entertainment, and financial industries. She also organizes and leads team scrum events and coaches the Scrum Team on the use of Scaled Agile practices and principles. In the past, Sumithra has worked at Scrumtop as a Certified Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Release Train Engineer, and at Clean Living Club as CEO. She has a B-Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT, an MBA in Information Technology from IIM Bangalore, and a degree in CS, Entrepreneurship from Stanford University. She also has a degree in Film Direction from UCLA and a 10th-grade degree in English, Physics, and Chemistry from Luthern English Medium School. Sumithra's tech stack includes product management, Java, Azure, and software engineering. She has relevant experience of 14.03 years.