Sarath Kummamuru

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India27 yrs 3 mos experience

Key Highlights

Over 20 years in technology leadership roles.
Expert in building scalable microservices architectures.
Passionate about coaching and empowering teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with extensive leadership experience in technology and product engineering.

Contact

kcsarath@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Technology StrategyMicroservices Architecture

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementBig DataBusiness CoachingC++Cloud ComputingContinuous Improvement CultureEvent-Driven microservices architectureExtreme ProgrammingHTML 5HadoopInternet Product DevelopmentJ2EEJavaJava Enterprise Edition

About

With over two decades of experience in the tech industry, I have transitioned from entrepreneurship to leadership roles at Yahoo, Amazon, and Google. These experiences paved the way for my success in executive positions at Airtel Payments Bank, Gojek, Circles Life, and Razorpay. Now am excited heading technology building for India at NPCI Bharat BillPay Limited. My specialization lies in product engineering and leadership, where I empower individuals and teams to maximize their potential through targeted coaching and mentorship. As a leader, I have been pivotal in building and growing large organizations with over 500 people, delivering large-scale, high-performance products in the B2C, B2B, SaaS, and G2C sectors.I frequently speak on AI, Agility, Organization Design, FinTech, RegTech, and Leadership and collaborate with entrepreneurs, startups, and executive teams to tackle complex problems. I focus on simplifying, managing, and reducing complexity in their operations.Let’s connect and explore how I can assist you on your journey, whether it's through strategic advice, technical guidance, or leadership coaching!

Experience

27 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

8 mos

Current Experience

Bharat connect

CDTO

Aug 2025 – Present · 8 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Razorpay

Senior Vice President of Engineering

Sep 2023 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

Circles.life

Global Head of Engineering

Jan 2023 – Jul 2023 · 6 mos · Singapore, Singapore · On-site

Gojek

Head Of Engineering, Merchant EcoSystem

Aug 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

Airtel payments bank

CIO/CTO

Aug 2017 – Oct 2021 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

Work closely with the IT Strategy committee of the board to define and align the technology strategy of the bank. Lead the technology strategy, process maturity, and organization design to build strong technology infrastructure.
Align practices and rhythm to support the high-paced innovation and execution at the bank. Helped the team adopt a very scalable Event-Driven microservices architecture that serves millions of customers and tens of millions of transactions per month.
# Leading a team of over 500 members.
# Deployed Team Topologies that delivered effective ownership and end-to-end delivery.
# Helped the team build a technology stack to support over 35x growth in business over 4 years.

Event-Driven microservices architectureTechnology strategyProcess maturityOrganization designTechnology StrategyMicroservices Architecture

Google

Head, Tools and Automation

Oct 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · Hyderābād Area, India

Lead the technology delivery for gTech Ads to provide tools and automation for the Advertising account managers to help large advertisers achieve their marketing goals and plans. A key delivery was the ability to combine data and insights from multiple google advertising platforms and provide recommendations and performance reporting of the campaigns to the customers.

Amazon.com

Sr. Dev Manager

May 2014 – May 2015 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

Head of technology for the Competitive Monitoring systems at Amazon helping deliver price recommendations at scale. The technology systems relied heavily on advanced ML & AI-based recommendation systems and innovative data collectors including crawlers, data ingestion, etc.
A key achievement was the critical focus on building up the team post large attrition, worked closely with the hiring team to hire over 30 people in a short 6 month period. Post this, stabilized the engineering team to improve retention and reduce attrition.

Yahoo!

2 roles

Director, Engineering

Mar 2013 – May 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos

Sr. Engineering Manager

Mar 2010 – Mar 2013 · 3 yrs

Head Yahoo Web Hosting Engineering :
Transitioned the product engineering from SNV to BLR and built a team to modernize the product, build some features that Customers loved and cleared up a lot of legacy to improve and optimize quick development.
Enabled the team to modernize the system to move away from FreeBSD to RHEL, support latest technologies like PHP5 and Mysql5 which were long due, facilitated induction of latest technologies like NodeJS into the stack.
Achievements : Built an amazing self organizing team that built interesting product features and enhancements with strong customer focus and ownership. One of the Teams being awarded a "Best Team in the BU" Award.
Head Yahoo Marketing Dashboard Engineering :
Marketing dashboard is a first new product offering from the Yahoo Small business in over 7 - 8 years. Headed engineering to build a scalable solution using latest grid technologies at yahoo, latest front end technologies like NodeJS and many interesting solutions to provide a highly acclaimed product with strong customer adoption.
Achievements : Product seeing rapid growth and good customer uptake with good PR and feedback.

Vignette

Consulting Agile Coach and Mentor

Jun 2007 – Oct 2007 · 4 mos · Hyderabad

Agile coach for the Vignette ODC center in Hyderabad.

Jda software

Consulting Agile Coach and Mentor

Aug 2005 – Jan 2006 · 5 mos

I was responsible for an agile transition at the India Development center of JDA Inc. I helped transition the whole offshore development organization to agile with Scrum and some XP practices.

Aventeon

Agile Coach

Jul 2005 – Oct 2005 · 3 mos · Bangalore

Agile coach responsible for bringing in agile to simplify release processes, build trust in the offshore development center and streamline iterative development across multi technology product including Perl, Mobile Development and Java.

Choice solutions limited

Consluting Architect and Team Mentor

May 2000 – Nov 2001 · 1 yr 6 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Worked as a consulting architect and team leader for some of the new projects that choice solutions was working on. My role invovled building a team which eventually grew to about 30 members, taking care of technology and delivery.
Was exciting to work there where we had the opportunity to build a wonderful team of strong learners and solid technical guys focused on quality delivered.