Umashankar Kotturu, Global Practice Head, Digital Engineering, Apexon A visionary in science and engineering, Umashankar Kotturu leads the digital engineering practice at Apexon, With experience as an enterprise leader and startup founder, Uma combines strategic vision with practical execution. He and his team developed Apexon’s Agentic Foundation to architect scalable, cloud-native, and composable engineering solutions. These secure, interoperable systems, infused with Agentic AI and integrated into the software development life cycle, ensure high repeatability, compliance, and enterprise-grade performance. Through personal expertise and leadership, he enables clients to realize the full value of technology, delivering innovation, operational efficiency, and sustained revenue growth through collaborative solutions that maximize ROI with minimal disruption. He routinely predicts technology trends a year or more before they come to light. Apexon is an AI-powered technology services firm backed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Everstone Capital. The company brings together distinct core competencies in AI, analytics, app development, cloud, commerce, CX, data, DevOps, IoT, mobile, quality engineering and UX. Over a 30-year period, the combination of four separate startup organizations has evolved into a thriving organization with over 5,500+ digital engineers across 17 global offices.