Himaja Suman Ruttala

Himaja Ruttala is an Engineering Manager at Cox Automotive, where she leads teams building and modernizing enterprise software platforms for the automotive industry. She has experience scaling distributed teams, improving system reliability, and delivering complex initiatives across cloud infrastructure, AI-powered products, and platform engineering. Himaja is passionate about developing engineers into technical and organizational leaders through clear decision-making, accountability, and effective execution. She is particularly interested in how AI is transforming software development and engineering organizations. At LeadDev, she brings practical insights on engineering leadership, career growth, team effectiveness, and navigating change in fast-moving environments.