Avik Rao
Software Engineer at Databricks
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolAvik Rao is a Software Engineer at Databricks with eight years of engineering experience focused on continuous integration and developer platforms. A University of Maryland computer science graduate and TJHSST alum, he moved from internships in security automation and model transcription to shipping CI tooling and developer experience at scale. He contributes to open-source front-end features—most notably enhancing Discord rich presence for the PreMiD Activities project—bringing a user-focused approach to developer tooling. Based in Mountain View, he blends hands-on coding with platform reliability work, often bridging UX-aware front-end tweaks and backend automation to streamline developer workflows.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Maryland
English, Konkani, Hindi
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Github Skills (7)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
discord-js10
typescript-types10
discord10
web-development9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
PreMiD/Activities
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
🛒 Storage for Activities located at our Activity Store.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 3 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Avik focused on implementing and improving a rich presence feature for the Ryou Flashcards website, specifically for the Discord application. They added functionality to display the user's activity, such as learning kanji, vocabulary, and completing reviews, including progress updates. The user's work involved creating the necessary logic within the presence.ts file to dynamically update the Discord presence based on the user's actions within the web application.
discordpresencesrich-presencenodejsstorage
AkashBhave/jmania
Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:26 commits in 1 month
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