Abhijit Rao
Founder And Chief Technology Consultant at quasiLabs
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolAbhijit Rao is a founder and chief technology consultant with 25 years of technology leadership and 16 years of hands-on experience building scalable, fault-tolerant software and modernising legacy systems. He has repeatedly launched and scaled product-driven startups—leading architecture and engineering at companies like Cleartrip, OpenTable (payments), Readify, and his own ventures Instazen and quasiLabs—combining deep system design with pragmatic DevOps and CI/CD practices. Known for advanced Python mastery and UI/UX sensibility, he blends backend robustness with intuitive interfaces and coaches teams in quality engineering and culture-building. His background includes unusual early work in Common Lisp for high-performance search and rural networking protocols at MIT Media Lab (Asia), reflecting a knack for unconventional technical solutions. Based in Pune, he focuses on turning tech vision into reality through API-first design, technical due diligence, and leadership hiring for senior engineering teams.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
SSC Secondary Education, SSC Secondary Education at KES Hans Bhugra High SchoolMSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at University of MumbaiBSc Maths, BSc Maths at Ramnarain Ruia College, MumbaiPost Graduate Diploma in Internet Technology Computer Science, Post Graduate Diploma in Internet Technology Computer Science at National Center for Software Technology
English, Marathi, Hindi, common lisp, javascript, python, c
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Github Skills (29)
spec9
ide9
emacs9
common-lisp9
lisp9
copilot9
pooling8
thread8
music6
audio6
ai6
iphone6
memcached6
synthesis6
ios6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
quasi/quasilabs.in
Aug 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:30 commits, 44 pushes in 9 months
quasi/pooler
Aug 2013 - Feb 2015
A Simple, Thread-Safe Pooling Library for Common Lisp.
Contributions:31 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 6 months
poolingthreadlispcommon-lispsafe
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