Nikhil Rao
Software Development Engineer at eGain Corporation
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Rao is a software development engineer based in California with a strong cross-disciplinary background in computer science and bioinformatics. A recent UC San Diego MS in CS and BS in CS with Cum Laude honors, he has built hands-on experience spanning software engineering, data science, and research across industry and academia. Since March 2025, he has been applying his development and systems thinking as a Software Development Engineer at eGain Corporation, following prior roles including Engineering Manager for the UCSD CSE Society where he led code reviews and weekly dev meetings, and a Research Intern at ESB Artificial Intelligence Lab. Earlier, he contributed to Walmart Global Tech with Elasticsearch/Spark work and served as a Teaching Assistant at UCSD, where he built Python autot graders and tutorials. His background also includes a STEM internship at La Jolla Institute for Immunology and a product/data science internship at CivicScience, underscoring a versatile profile that blends software delivery with data-driven decision making. He is known for turning complex requirements into practical, scalable solutions and mentoring peers, with nine years of hands-on experience across enterprise software, AI research, and education.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at UC San Diego Jacobs School of EngineeringBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science: Bioinformatics, Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science: Bioinformatics, Cum Laude at University of California, San Diego - Jacobs School of Engineering
Github Skills (24)
san10
diego10
api9
portal9
donations9
rest-api8
mhealth8
rest8
mongoose8
expressjs7
mern7
python6
react5
mongodb5
nodejs5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nik-dange/nik-dange
Nov 2015 - Dec 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 1 month
acmucsd/mern-template
Oct 2023 - Apr 2024
ACM Hack Projects - MERN template
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
acmreactexpressjsacm-hackmern
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