Summary
Rama Tummala is a senior engineering leader based in California with eight years in high-growth startups and over two decades of hands-on systems experience building highly scalable server and platform products. As a founding or early engineer at multiple billion-dollar startups and now Senior Director of Engineering at Aurasell AI, he specializes in taking platforms from ground zero to production at scale while growing engineering organizations. He has a proven track record across roles from principal engineer to VP/Head of Engineering at companies like Harness and AppDynamics, delivering resilient distributed systems in demanding, high-throughput domains. Rama thrives on solving ambiguous, hard-technical problems and operationalizing reliability, product scaling, and developer velocity simultaneously. He pairs deep technical roots in scalable backend and workflow engines with pragmatic people leadership, having repeatedly promoted teams through rapid expansion. A detail that stands out: despite frequent moves into leadership, he repeatedly returns to hands-on architecture and critical-path engineering during pivotal growth phases.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Technology Information Technology, Bachelors of Technology Information Technology at Acharya Nagarjuna University
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore