Smitha S. Rao
Smitha S. Rao
CTO with 13+ years driving enterprise platforms, product engineering, and DevSecOps across payments, BFSI, telecom, media, and healthcare. Led 28+ member teams, built cloud-native microservices, and integrated security into SSDLC. Experienced with Java/J2EE, Spring, REST/SOAP, Kafka, AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks, Snowflake, Salesforce Clouds, PEGA, and RPA. Special focus on billing/payments platforms and global rollouts.
Contact CTO Office[table id="cto-spec" class="pix-table"][thead][tr][th]Domain[/th][th]Skills & Platforms[/th][/tr][/thead][tbody][tr][td]Architecture & DevSecOps[/td][td]SSDLC, threat modeling, microservices, CI/CD Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, SonarQube, JProfiler[/td][/tr][tr][td]Cloud & Data[/td][td]AWS, Azure, GCP, Lambda, Databricks, Snowflake, Kafka, Splunk[/td][/tr][tr][td]Billing & Payments[/td][td]KillBill open-source billing, payment gateway integrations, global currency conversion[/td][/tr][tr][td]Enterprise Apps[/td][td]Java 8/13/18, Spring Boot, Hibernate, REST/SOAP, React, NodeJS, AEM, PEGA, Salesforce Clouds[/td][/tr][tr][td]Governance & Delivery[/td][td]OKRs, roadmaps, RFP/RFQ, architecture docs HLD/LLD, ERD, PMO cadence[/td][/tr][/tbody][/table]
Contact CTO Office[ul][li]B.Tech Chemical Engineering, W.B.U.T. (GPA 8.9)[/li][li]SCJP Certified[/li][li]Salesforce (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud) certifications[/li][li]AWS, Angular, AEM (training/certs)[/li][li]TOGAF training & PEGA CLSA[/li][/ul]
Contact CTO Office[table id="cto-projects"][thead][tr][th]Project[/th][th]Role[/th][th]Highlights[/th][/tr][/thead][tbody][tr][td]Global Digital Payments Platform[/td][td]Technical PM / Architect[/td][td]KillBill billing, RPA UiPath, multi-country currency conversion, REST APIs, orchestrator setup[/td][/tr][tr][td]MultiChoice MAH ATL Offers[/td][td]Technical PM[/td][td]Automation for validation, provisioning & reporting; Agile delivery[/td][/tr][tr][td]Sapient ADP MVP (BFSI)[/td][td]Technical PM[/td][td]AWS Lambda, Kafka, Spring Boot, customer onboarding automation[/td][/tr][tr][td]Spotify Bounce (HR Platform)[/td][td]TPM[/td][td]Persona-driven integration, React, PEGA, Databricks, BTP[/td][/tr][tr][td]FindACarer SaaS[/td][td]Project Tech Manager[/td][td]React/NodeJS, AWS, Sonar, JProfiler[/td][/tr][tr][td]GTP & MyDawa Tech Due Diligence[/td][td]Project Tech Manager[/td][td]Security assessment, scorecards, workshops, final reports[/td][/tr][tbody][/table]
Contact CTO Office[ul][li]Travel & Hospitality Icon award[/li][li]Best Employee & Best Manager (multiple times)[/li][li]POC lead for multiple enterprise deliveries[/li][/ul]
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Client Say
Delivery excellence, security-by-design, and predictable releases across complex enterprise stacks.
Questions
Security by design across code, data, and infrastructure.
Zero trust principles and hardened microservices.
Observability%2FSRE with actionable dashboards.
Automated%20backups%20and%20DR%20playbooks.
Policy-driven%20access%20controls%20and%20audits.
Data%20lifecycle%20governance%20and%20retention.
Proactive%20ops%20with%20automation%20and%20RPA.
Continuous%20security%20testing%20and%20scorecards.
My projects
A selection of platform, payments, and data initiatives.
