Nikhil Rao
Software Engineer 3 at PayPal
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Rao is a Software Engineer 3 based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building and optimizing distributed systems, currently working on Regulatory Platforms at PayPal. He blends a strong academic foundation in data science (MS, UT Dallas) with hands-on industry experience from Akamai, Rackspace, and startups, focusing on back-end services, performance engineering, and cloud automation for IoT. He has re-engineered critical components like cache invalidation and implemented Redis/Memcached-compatible storage at OmniTier, and has built RESTful DBaaS APIs and HA provisioning tooling in cloud environments. Comfortable across Java, Go, Python, big data stacks, and AWS, he brings practical expertise in capacity planning, performance analysis, and distributed storage designs. Colleagues value his knack for finding subtle system bugs via rigorous testing and for translating research-grade distributed automation into production-ready services.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasBachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Science, 3.8, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Science, 3.8 at Visvesvaraya Technological University
Kannada, English, Hindi
Github Skills (26)
fulfillment9
toolbox7
binary-search-tree7
natural-language-processing7
computer-vision6
machine-learning6
indexing6
solr6
pytorch6
binary-search6
neural-network5
fine-tuning5
deep-learning5
llm5
data-science5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nikhilraog/Spamfilter
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes in 1 day
nikhilraog/tripshare
Sep 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:8 commits in 1 month
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