About

Sushmitha Rao is an accomplished Engineering Manager with over 10 years of experience in various roles such as full-stack polyglot developer, Scrum Master, and Engineering Manager. She is currently working at Autodesk as a Software Development Manager, where she is responsible for building self-organizing teams using agile and lean development methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, and Extreme Programming. Sushmitha is passionate about enabling teams to achieve high performance through servant leadership and coaching while identifying areas for continuous improvement. She has a proven track record of delivering solutions for organizations using agile and lean development methodologies. Sushmitha has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Technology from RV College of Engineering. She is a certified Agile Practitioner and has expertise in designing serverless applications with a high level of engineering and operational excellence. Prior to joining Autodesk, Sushmitha worked at ThoughtWorks as a Senior Application Developer and at Alcatel-Lucent as an Intern. She has extensive experience in software engineering and has held roles such as Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer. In summary, Sushmitha is a highly skilled Engineering Manager with a passion for building self-organizing teams and delivering solutions using agile and lean development methodologies. She is always interested in exploring new opportunities and designing serverless applications with a high level of engineering and operational excellence.