Ganesh Rao
Principal Software Engineer at FactSet
Sacramento, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGanesh Rao is a Principal Software Engineer based in Sacramento with over a decade of experience designing and shipping high-accuracy, scalable full-stack systems. He has progressed through hands-on roles at FactSet—now leading engineering efforts there—after building production-grade data pipelines, APIs, and realtime services at Truvalue Labs and Trading Technologies. Comfortable across Node.js, MongoDB, AWS, and modern front-end stacks, he translates product requirements into robust, efficient engineering plans and operational nightly workflows. His background blends technical leadership with creative practice—an MFA in Visualization and early career work in interactive media and immersive art inform a strong sense for UX and prototype-driven development. He is known for improving accuracy and performance in time-series and data products while mentoring teams through Agile delivery. Ambitious about future-facing concepts, he combines artful design instincts with rigor in production engineering.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Visualization, Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Visualization at Texas A&M UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science & Engineering at Manipal University
English, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani
Github Skills (17)
width8
rows8
fixed-width7
summernote6
wysiwyg5
javascript5
logging4
logger4
slim2
json1
cms1
authentication1
token-based-authentication1
administration1
angular1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ganeshnrao/log-row
May 2019 - Apr 2021
A lightweight module to log objects as beautiful fixed width rows
Contributions:24 commits, 3 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 11 months
loggerfixed-widthwidthloggingrows
ganeshnrao/pugger
Oct 2019 - Apr 2026
Build static websites using pug
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 7 months
pugstatic-site-generatorgulpstatic-build
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