Rama completed her master’s degree in computer applications in 2007 and then started her journey as a Business Intelligence Engineer in India as a Consultant for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Over the course of five years with TCS she progressed from junior engineer to being a team lead for various major clients such as General Electric in the US. After moving to the UK with her husband, Rama has been working for SwissRe as BI consultant before moving into advanced analytics for Quantum Black in 2015 as a data engineer. She worked on various analytical use cases with ranging from telematics to finance to pharma. By the time Rama left QB, which had since been acquired by McKinsey, she was working as a Principal Data Engineer. Rama joined Direct Line Group in 2019 as a data engineering manager to start building the data analytics platform for their legacy and cloud data for DLG’s motor insurance products. She started her journey of building this platform from understanding the requirements of users, recruiting a team and working with the leadership to deliver the platform.