Mr. A. Lakshman Rao is the former Chief Operating Officer of Wipro Technologies. Mr. Rao played an important role in building competence in Client/Server and Object technologies and was instrumental in building a number of business practices from scratch such as Testing services, business intelligence, data warehousing and e-Enabling in Wipro.
Prior to Wipro, he worked in Electronics Corporation of India Ltd Ltd. from 1973–1980 and was associated with the development of Operating Systems and Compilers for ECIL computers. Mr. Rao has delivered the keynote speech at the 2nd World Congress on Software Quality in Japan in 2000. He was also a guest speaker at the Project Management Conferences held in Japan & USA.
He has been elected a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering for distinguished contribution to Computer Science & Engineering. Mr. Rao did his Msc and Phd in Nuclear Physics from Andhra University, India.