About

Umamaheshwar Rao Kolla is a Senior Technical Program Manager at Zillow with over 13 years of experience in leading and managing cross-functional programs across organizations. He is highly committed, detail-oriented, and possesses hands-on expertise in areas that he and his team own and deliver. Umamaheshwar is a problem solver with the ability to deep dive into scenarios and use varied tools to outline required solutions and methodologies. He is also a passionate adopter of the latest products and technologies and leads by example. Umamaheshwar has a clear delineation of ownership and drive to define what "done" means. He connects the dots and provides a consistent track record to customers, stakeholders, and partners on multiple initiatives. He is adept at leading and managing teams with varying skill sets. Umamaheshwar is an expert in web and app development, content management, business intelligence, and workflow projects. He has contributed and delivered multiple projects at Microsoft and has grown from an individual contributor to delivering and managing 100+ releases across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, SharePoint, Business Intelligence, web, and mobile applications. Umamaheshwar's primary responsibilities include baselining and maintaining the product backlog along with technical functions inside work item management tools, outlining and formulating requirements for given projects/products, analyzing and identifying key data and request patterns to come up with elicited requirements after working with key business stakeholders, outlining technical design and solution approach, aligning or proposing an architecture to best deliver requirements, monitoring execution with hands-on expertise on implementation details and modules, validating and providing feedback to the engineering team to improve quality, showcasing progress and updates to stakeholders, ensuring end-to-end hand-off with deployment, post-deployment support and operations, managing and co-ordinating a large team that spans across locations, and delivering, delivering, delivering. Umamaheshwar holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad. He also has an Intermediate degree in Mathematics from the Board of Intermediate Education and completed his schooling from NVS High School. Umamaheshwar's tech stack includes web and mobile technologies.