Uma Rao

Overview

Currently at Summit Pay, where I lead embedded systems with a team of 28. Moved 64% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Before that: PhonePe and Siemens. Jazz piano, badly.

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Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   Feb 2026 - Present
   Summit Pay · 8 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 18 minutes to under 6.
   • Led the migration of 61 services to RTOS.
2. Director of Engineering

   Oct 2023 - Feb 2026
   PhonePe · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Shipped 23 launches on the firmware team without a rollback.
   • Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion.
3. Embedded Engineer

   Aug 2022 - Oct 2023
   Siemens · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 18% in two quarters.
   • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 896ms to 130ms.
4. Senior Engineering Manager

   Apr 2020 - Aug 2022
   Walmart Global Tech · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Wrote the hardware bring-up service that now handles 84 million requests a day.
5. Staff Embedded Engineer

   Nov 2016 - Apr 2020
   Kotak Mahindra Bank · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Led the migration of 23 services to embedded Linux.
   • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 510ms to 43ms.

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Education

1. ISB Hyderabad

   MBA, Business Administration
   2002 - 2004
2. College of Engineering, Pune

   B.Tech, Electrical Engineering
   1997 - 2001