Summary
Ashwin Rao is a Senior Android Engineer with eight years of professional experience and a six-year focus on mobile product development, currently building at SeatGeek. He has led greenfield Android projects from proof-of-concept to nationwide production—most notably co-architecting Chick-fil-A’s next-gen POS using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and modern architectures like Clean Architecture, MVVM and MVI. Prior roles include contributing to the widely downloaded Chick-fil-A consumer app and authoring CameraX training material in collaboration with Google Developer Relations, showing a knack for developer-facing documentation as well as product delivery. Ashwin has shipped high-throughput order-processing systems and worked on automotive diagnostic tooling, combining UX-minded UI work with backend-sensitive architecture. Based in Arlington Heights, IL, he pairs a DePaul MS in Computer Science with cross-team mentorship experience across time zones. He brings a practical blend of production engineering, developer advocacy, and greenfield system design that accelerates product launches.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at DePaul University
English