Akshay Rao
Senior Manager at Infinera
Greater Ottawa Metropolitan Area Canada
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Top SchoolAkshay Rao is a Senior Manager with 17 years of experience leading firmware and embedded systems engineering across storage, optical networking, automotive and MFP domains. He blends hands-on firmware development (C/C++, RTOS) and hardware-platform expertise (ARM, Zynq, Intel Atom, Tensilica) with proven delivery skills in managing cross-functional teams, backlogs, and technical debt to ship complex, integrated products on schedule. At Infinera and previously SanDisk/Toshiba he has driven NAND/host-protocol and low-level driver work while still participating in code and design reviews and hands-on debugging. Comfortable bridging ML/AI toolkits (TensorFlow, OpenCV) into embedded contexts, he brings a rare mix of systems-level depth and people leadership that keeps multi-disciplinary initiatives moving forward. Based in the Greater Ottawa area, he pairs a strong academic foundation (BITS Pilani, Visvesvaraya Technological University) with a track record of turning hardware-software complexity into operational products.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Distinction, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Distinction at Visvesvaraya Technological University
English, Kannada, Hindi, Tulu, Telugu
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Github contributions (1)
MILE-Lab/indic-keyboards
Mar 2009 - Jun 2009
Contributions:18 commits in 2 months
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