Paparao Gummadapu
Vice President of Enterprise Architecture
 
Paparao Gummadapu has over 13 years experience in Information Technology and Platform Architecture for Supply Chain Solutions. In this role, he is responsible for architecting and building an enterprise class, distributed and scalable Web 2.0 sourcing solution leveraging the Microsoft.NET Platform. Additionally, Paparao plays an integral role in leading the software development team at Co-eXprise.

Prior to Co-eXprise, Paparao was a key contributor in the New Business Technologies (R & D) development group at FreeMarkets. In this role, he was responsible for the development of new products focusing on the supply chain market. This includes ground breaking products like Supplier Implementation and Spend Visibility. Prior to FreeMarkets, Paparao was a Team Lead at Viridien Technologies and was responsible for building a major J2EE implementation for CVS.com using an MVC Architecture.

Paparao holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics & Communications and throughout his career, he has been significantly involved in enterprise application development using Microsoft.NET/COM and Java/J2EE technologies with SQL Server and Oracle databases.