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Lekha Rao

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Software Engineering Manager at Ascend Learning
📍 Overland Park, Kansas, United States

Lekha is a Software Engineering Manager with over 12 years of experience in the healthcare IT industry, specializing in scalable backend services and ETL pipelines on platforms like AWS. She holds an MS from the University of Memphis and is described by colleagues as people-focused, results-driven, and detail-oriented.

A key focus in her role is driving the strategic roadmap for her teams while fostering career growth and professional development opportunities for the engineers she manages.

While at a previous company, she built a website with a database backend to optimize testing processes, a tool that is reportedly still in use today.

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Experience
17 Years
Current Role
Software Engineering Manager
Job Level
Middle
Location
Overland Park, Kansas, United States
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Engineering Career Growth
One of her main goals as a manager is to provide professional development and career growth opportunities for engineers on her team.
ETL Pipeline Performance
Her experience includes identifying performance optimizations and managing ETL pipelines in Hadoop environments, both on-premise and on AWS EMR.
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Career

Work history

4-2025
Software Engineering Manager
Ascend Learning
6-2022 - 11-2024
Software Engineering Manager
Zendesk
2-2021 - 5-2022
Manager, Software Engineering
Cerner Corporation
3-2018 - 2-2021
Team Lead, Associate Lead Software Engineer
Cerner Corporation
8-2014 - 2-2018
Sr. Software Engineer
Cerner Corporation
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Education
MS
University of Memphis
B-tech
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
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