Rathan Ramachandra

Rathan Ramachandra is an AVP – Senior Scrum Master at PNC and an Agile coach with over 15 years of experience leading Agile transformations across banking, insurance, airline, and hospitality industries. He holds a Master’s in Project Management from Illinois State University and is an ICAgile Certified Agile Coach and Advanced Scrum Master. Rathan works at the intersection of Agile practice and enterprise AI adoption, helping teams build the mindset, habits, and discipline needed to navigate the AI era. He is actively exploring how Agile principles apply to AI agent adoption and internal tooling, with a focus on inspect-and-adapt practices, prompt engineering, and responsible AI usage within organizations. He regularly leads training and facilitation sessions on AI literacy and participates in hands-on initiatives such as agent hackathons to stay grounded in the realities of what teams face on the ground. He has also served as a judge at multiple hackathons and demo days, providing technical feedback, product guidance, and mentorship to the next generation of builders.