Summary
Nivetha Sukumar is an engineering leader with 11 years’ experience building and shipping embedded systems, currently leading the Solo payment terminal application team at SumUp in Berlin. She combines hands-on C/C++ firmware and backend integration with people leadership—hiring, mentoring and promoting best practices while collaborating closely with product, QA and UX to deliver merchant-facing features. Her background spans high-reliability domains from motion control at ASML to wireless healthcare and industrial IoT, giving her a strong systems perspective and pragmatic architecture skills. Notably, she led the revamp of Solo’s software update flow and routinely steps in to fix critical issues that unblock customers. She holds a Master’s in Embedded Systems from Eindhoven and a First Class B.E. in Electronics, and is known for improving agile processes to boost team throughput and quality.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering, First Class with Distinction with a CGPA of 8.93, Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering, First Class with Distinction with a CGPA of 8.93 at SRM University
Masters, Embedded Systems, Masters, Embedded Systems at Eindhoven University of Technology
Higher Secondary, Mathematics and Computer Science, Higher Secondary, Mathematics and Computer Science at T.S.T Rajah Girls Matriculation Higher Secondary School
English, Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, German