Venkat Rao Payyavula is an experienced professional in the fields of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, AWS, observability, and automation, currently serving as Senior Vice President at DBS Bank since April 2013. Prior roles include Vice President and Assistant Vice President with responsibilities focused on planning, scheduling, and executing infrastructure projects, as well as managing stakeholder communications. Venkat has held roles at Citi as a Senior Consultant, Arowana Consulting as a Senior Technical Analyst for DU Telecom, and Infogain as a Senior Systems Engineer, consistently overseeing enterprise software and hardware implementations. Earlier experience includes serving as a software engineer at Reliance, with a focus on Tibco development. Venkat holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Osmania University and completed earlier education at Nagarjuna Vidya Nikethan.