Ananya Rao
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About me

Certified Project Mangement Professional, with close to 9 years of work experience in leadership, management, and a technical background in software development. Led projects for Tier-1 customers in large-scale international setups.

Work experience

  1. June 2023 — Present

    Project Manager - Release Train Engineer/ Scrum Master

    Continental ADC GmbH → AUMOVIO (spin-off) · Ulm, Germany
    • Technical project leadership as Release Train Engineer, Scrum Master, and Problem Resolution Manager (Customer: Mercedes-Benz); led PI planning and tracked critical milestones across four parallel ADAS radar projects involving approximately 50 international team members.
    • Managed cross-functional dependencies within release and project planning; safeguarded project objectives through early escalation and resolution of risks, impediments, and critical blockers.
    • Ensured realistic feature planning through capacity and resource alignment; supported project objectives through efficient resource utilisation and adherence to budget optimisation.
    • Owned problem resolution management; drove program-wide problem-report burndown and defect-resolution progress effectively across the full project lifecycle.
    • Organised and led retrospectives, Inspect & Adapt, and problem-solving workshops; drove continuous process optimisation and coaching across the project.
    • Monitored requirement burndown at project level in collaboration with Software Architects and Requirements Managers; ensured requirement traceability and supported feature implementation for all Customer milestones.
    • Developed reporting structures using Jira, eazyBI and Power BI solutions; over 60 dashboards consolidated and transparently presented delivery progress metrics to support data-driven management decisions.
  2. June 2022 — Apr 2023

    Technical Account Manager (Working Student)

    financeAds International GmbH · Berlin, Germany

    Affiliate marketing account management for financial-sector campaigns.

    • Digitalised lead generation and KPI reporting with Close CRM and Zapier — increasing reporting efficiency by 40%.
    • Identified and onboarded Dutch publishers for Revolut and Santander; managed ~12 affiliate partnerships.
    • Ran monthly revenue reconciliations ensuring complete, accurate billing.
  3. Sept 2017 — Dec 2021

    Senior Software Engineer

    Bosch Global Software Technologies · Bengaluru, India

    Product lead for Networking & HMI in the iBooster project for Toyota — coordinating technical alignment across the global Japan–Germany team.

    • On-site assignment at Toyota Motor Corporation in Japan to synchronise development of the safety-critical Remote Control Parking feature.
    • ASPICE-compliant development across the full SDLC — from requirements analysis to unit testing — supporting successful project audits.
    • Acted as Scrum Master and mentored junior developers in SDLC processes.
  4. Jan 2017 — Apr 2017

    Project Trainee

    ISRO — Indian Space Research Organisation · Bengaluru, India

    Simulation, design and testing of a buck-converter-based Solar Array Simulator, deployed for space applications.

Education

  1. Apr 2022 — Mar 2023

    MSc International Business Management

    GISMA University of Applied Sciences · Potsdam, Germany

    GPA 1.5

  2. June 2013 — Aug 2017

    B.E. Electronics & Communications Engineering

    Bangalore Institute of Technology · Bengaluru, India

    First Class with Distinction.

Certifications

In chronological order

2026 Project Management Institute Project Management Professional (PMP)® Project Management Institute
2026 IBM Generative AI for Project Managers IBM
2022 Scaled Agile Certified SAFe® 6 Scrum Master (CSM) Scaled Agile
2022 Project Management Institute Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® Project Management Institute
2021 AIGPE Certified FMEA Specialist AIGPE