Ramachandra Rao RVS
Summary
Two decades of IT experience. Progressed from hands on roles to product and programme leadership, working with multiple client organizations, geographies, and with diverse stakeholders.
For the past few years, worked on driving transformative change through product and programme delivery, partnering with Product and Engineering leaders to create measurable business impact including realising of upto £5m hosting cost savings per year.
Enjoy sharing lessons from my journey, exchanging ideas, and growing together and trying out happening technologies.
Like spending time with my family watching movies, persuing karate with my daughter, working personal AI projects.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
4
4
Certification
Work History
Rollout Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
12.2025 - Current
- Planning rollout of replatformed e-commerce, order management and customer identity and access management system for 46 markets.
- Data based pilot market selection.
- Dependency management across multiple programmes.
- Internal and External stakeholders management.
Senior Technical Program Manager
Tata Consultancy Services
08.2022 - 12.2025
- Product Delivery - OKR based delivery
- Programme Management. - Digital transformation initiatives
- Budget Management - People and Hosting
- Process & People Development - Delivery and Engineering
Technical Program Manager
Tata Consultancy Services
04.2021 - 08.2022
- Led initiative to re-write monolithic applications into microservices architecture.
- Coordinated proof-of-concept initiatives for cloud-based e-commerce platforms involving architecture and engineering.
- Financial assessment and benefits evaluation for senior leadership, demonstrating the outcomes achievable with the adoption of the new platform.
- Reported significant developments and progress updates to Senior Technical Programme Manager and Head of Software Engineering.
Scrum Master
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2018 - 03.2021
- Led a successful digital transformation programme (re-hosting and re-platforming) that yielded cost benefits of more than £5 million in hosting spend.
E2E Test Manager
Tata Consultancy Services
05.2011 - 02.2018
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
12.2010 - 04.2011
Senior Test Engineer
Wipro
02.2008 - 12.2010
Test Engineer
Qatalys Technologies Ltd
04.2006 - 02.2008
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - BE - Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
RMD Engineering College
04.2005
Skills
- Project and Programme Management
- Digital Transformation
- Stakeholder management
- Service Management
- Cost Management
- Budget management
- Financial forecasting
- Performance evaluation
Certification
- Introduction to Generative AI
- Managing Your Well-Being as a Leader
- Google Digital Cloud Leader
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
- Professional Scrum Master – 1
- International Software Testing Qualification Board – ISTQB Foundation.
Languages
Tamil
Telugu
Hindi
German (Elementary)
English (Full Professional)
Spanish
Links
- LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/ramachandra-rao-rvs
- Blog: rayavarapurams.blogspot.com
- AI Based Project: Prayag.io
- Repo: https://github.com/ramrayavarapu
Timeline
Rollout Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
12.2025 - Current
Senior Technical Program Manager
Tata Consultancy Services
08.2022 - 12.2025
Technical Program Manager
Tata Consultancy Services
04.2021 - 08.2022
Scrum Master
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2018 - 03.2021
E2E Test Manager
Tata Consultancy Services
05.2011 - 02.2018
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
12.2010 - 04.2011
Senior Test Engineer
Wipro
02.2008 - 12.2010
Test Engineer
Qatalys Technologies Ltd
04.2006 - 02.2008
Bachelor of Engineering - BE - Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
RMD Engineering College