Summary
Sumit Bando is a seasoned CTO and engineering leader with a career that spans from early web entrepreneurship in the 1990s to building cloud-native, ML-enabled SaaS platforms today. He has led high-scale architectures and global teams at companies like HP and Rakuten, and now drives GenAI-powered ERP/CRM/POS development at Suraksha Diagnostics. A practical founder with deep hands-on experience across AWS/GCP, Python, Ruby on Rails and rapid prototyping, he excels at turning prototypes into production SaaS while instituting CI/CD and MLOps practices. Sumit advises startups in real estate tech and blockchain, and uniquely combines enterprise-grade reliability (billions of monthly transactions at HP) with startup agility. Based in Kolkata, he pairs an MS in Computer Science and a BTech from IIT Kharagpur with a lifelong internet perspective dating back to 1981. Outside work he volunteers to help seniors remain independent, reflecting a long-term commitment to community impact.
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Rochester
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur