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Ramesh Kumar Katreddi, Vice President, Jumbotail

Converting Thoughts into Realities

Ramesh Kumar Katreddi’s love for technology began in childhood, fuelled by his elder brother’s journey as a software engineer. This led him to study computer science and engineering at NIT, Warangal. From an early age, he was involved in building technologies and transforming creative thoughts into tangible realities. He started his career at Adobe, working on complex technologies before founding a startup where he understood the interface between business strategy, customer experience and technology.

Armed with these learnings, he joined Jumbotail as head of engineering, where his role is to help the leading B2B marketplace for food and grocery attain undisputed market leadership with technology as the main lever. As vice president and head of engineering, Katreddi has played a key role in revolutionising the way businesses operate and delivering exceptional customer services. He has been instrumental in leading his team to deliver amazing technologies and products that change users’ lives, improve operational effi ciency, minimise risks, and help maintain a competitive edge.

They have built scalable and extensible distribution systems and applications powering business workfl ows. They have built a smart warehouse that is 100 percent software automated and operated without any paper-based processes. Katreddi believes achieving technology strategy alignment with business objectives can be done through a data-driven approach. In the last fi ve years, Jumbotail has scaled 100 times and provides 97 percent fi ll rates to its businesses. Their scalable platform can accommodate diverse supply chain models, having established the lowest-cost supply chain in the B2B food and grocery industry with the best customer satisfaction score.

Katreddi is clear that the onus of driving innovation is on him and, therefore, leads by example. He actively participates in architectural reviews, share blogs, articles and his experiments with new technologies with his team.