Aditya Rao
Senior Software Engineer at Zefr
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolAditya Rao is a Senior Software Engineer based in Chicago with 11 years of experience building production-scale AI/ML and distributed systems across ad-tech, fintech, blockchain, and SaaS. He combines deep research credentials—10+ peer-reviewed publications and collaborations with Oak Ridge National Lab—with hands-on engineering, having architected vector search infrastructure for 100M records and measurement systems that yielded 83% performance gains. Comfortable from model research (LLMs, RAG, neural nets) to cloud-native deployment (Kafka, Airflow, AWS, Docker), he has delivered direct business impact including $350K+ in measurable value and $3M+ in platform transactions. An entrepreneur and mentor, he founded and scaled a SaaS serving 100+ clients, contributed open-source code accepted by Anthropic, and maintains an active habit of publishing technical posts and projects. Notably, his early research optimized genetic algorithms for networks of over 5M nodes—an uncommon blend of large-scale algorithmic work and pragmatic product delivery.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Global business and blockchain, Masters Global business and blockchain at University of the CumberlandsBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at Vellore Institute of TechnologyKendriya Vidyalaya SangathanMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Missouri-Saint Louis
English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil
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Github Skills (195)
cordova-android10
image-upload10
artillery10
session-store10
apache-cordova9
javascript9
ai9
localize9
image-compressor9
imports9
mysql-database9
cordova9
simple-api9
cordova-ios9
mruby9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
scrapie-app/scrapie-core
Dec 2021 - Jan 2022
Scraper as a Service (SaaS)
Contributions:77 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 24 days
saas-servicepythonasyncioalembicsqlalchemy
adityak74/cryptoviz
Nov 2020 - Dec 2021
A simple crypto coins ticker data collector and visualizer. Will be used as a dataset for the Crypto Prediction Project.
Contributions:56 PRs, 219 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 1 month
gcpnodemailerbcryptgcp-cloud-runcloud-scheduler
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