Umesh Gowda is a professional in their field. Colleagues describe them as "Umesh was one of the first to embrace and fully implement our new agile approach and his team was the first to really become productive in the new process. He has excelled in taking ownership of some of our products: the backend data-system became an extremely reliable component of our ecommerce ecosystem, and one of the front-end products that he managed, regularly got rave reviews from our business partners. During my tenure, he was an extremely reliable resource for me, and I could trust him with anything I gave him; he would always make sure things got accomplished. He regularly extended beyond his responsibility and helped out other teams. His level of maturity as a technical leader is clearly well above average, and besides being an inspiring team leader, he still is very technical hands-on, and ‘deep-dives’ into code, designs and any other technical matters."