Sushma Garapati

Sushma Garapati is an experienced professional in software release management, currently serving as a Release Manager at Luminar Technologies since June 2022. Prior to this role, Sushma held positions including Software Release Program Manager at Waymo and Release Engineer/Manager at Edmodo. Sushma's career began as a Build and Release Engineer at PayPal and as a Senior Release Engineer at Pen Software Inc. Sushma also gained teaching experience as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Northwestern Polytechnic University while completing a Master of Science in Computer Science. Earlier in Sushma's career, work at CSC as a System Engineer focused on software development and customer requirements. Sushma holds a Master's degree from San Francisco Bay University and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from VR Siddhartha Engineering College.