Sudhindra Rao

Twitter: @sudhindraRao, LinkedIn: sudhindraRao

Experienced Engineer with a keen sense of building what a team needs - software and culture.
Experienced with building applications for - healthcare, media, voter campaigning.
Experienced in building real distributed systems on different Cloud systems as well as standalone
I like to do hands on work while teaching and have been successful in developing teams with sustainable/continuing learning culture.
In healthcare, I have built a large scale diabetes datalake at Glooko.
Most recently I have been building a kubernetes platform(VMware Tanzu) which removes the Ops from kubernetes

Education

2003-2007

PhD Candidate, Computer Science; University of Cincinnati

Thesis title: Distributed data replication and data availability in loosely connected systems

2000-2003

Master of Science, Computer Engineering; University of Cincinnati

1997-1999

Master of Technology, Electrical Engineering; IIT Bombay

VMware 2020 - Present

Software Delivery Lead

Building a kubernetes platform(Tanzu Kubernetes Grid -TKG) that is easy to maintain and upgrade
Building a better organization with simple team principles of feedback and sustainable pace
Engineering for maintainability over building the perfect solutions
Managing team delivery schedules
Providing architecture and continuous delivery process direction

Pivotal Software 2018 - 2020

Software Delivery Lead

Bridging the gap between development and delivery for Pivotal Container Service(PKS) now VMware Tanzu
Increasing visibility of code and its flow through the system
Creating mentorship opportunities for people around me
Building a better organization with simple team principles of feedback
Engineering for maintainability over building the perfect solutions.
Build CI/CD practice for building complex component integrations
Built a Release Engineering process/practice for traceable delivery

Sahaj Software 2017 - 2018

Solutions Consultant - Data Management and Machine Learning

Glooko Inc. 2015 - 2017

Principal Software Engineer/Engineering Manager

Built a platform that aggregates and analyzes Billions of diabetes related data points - one of its kind in the industry
Built an organization around building HIPAA and FDA compliant Device software
Hired and trained the frontend/mobile app development teams
Developed Continuous Delivery culture
Integrated with the world’s best AI system to data analytics
Built and delivered processes around security of data and patient safety
Built a culture around better leveraging UX teams
Engaged and developed an employee review process to reflect the culture and goals of the company
Consistently delivered features in a highly regulated environment with high quality and auditability
Developed team confidence and culture around making decisions - product as well as engineering

ThoughtWorks Products 2011 - 2015

Lead Developer on Mingle

Lead for implementing ElasticSearch based search for the installed version of Mingle
Lead on the team for moving Mingle from installed to be cloud-based Saas solution
Promoted and leveraged AWS ElasticBeanstalk for trouble-free continuous delivery
Developed unique interfaces to Mingle with IOT and AI