Summary
Ravi Rahman is a software engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building infrastructure, ML tooling, and production services across startups and research labs. He holds combined BS/MS degrees in EECS from MIT with a 5.0/5.0 GPA and has bridged research and product work — from formal verification of legal-to-smart-contract frameworks at CSAIL to contributing features to MosaicML’s Composer. His industry roles span Cursor, Anysphere, Robinhood, Optiver, Uber and more, where he shipped production services (e.g., an HTTP-to-gRPC middle layer and a C++ market-data synchronizer) and delivered notable reliability and performance wins. An active hacker and community builder, he’s won hackathons at MIT, Stanford, and Yale and organized MakeMIT, demonstrating both rapid prototyping chops and leadership. He combines low-level systems rigor with ML and formal-methods experience, making him adept at turning research ideas into deployable systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at Russian School of Mathematics
Johns Hopkins University
Bachelors and Masters in Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Course 6-2), GPA: 5.0/5.0, Bachelors and Masters in Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Course 6-2), GPA: 5.0/5.0 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cum Laude, Cum Laude at Milton Academy