Summary
Chandana Rao is a pragmatic software engineer with nine years of experience building scalable enterprise web applications and a strong full-stack skill set spanning Java, Node.js, AngularJS, Spring Boot, REST and messaging systems like RabbitMQ. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she has advanced through roles at PayPal from Software Engineer to Member of Technical Staff, applying distributed systems patterns, performance testing, and cloud platforms (AWS, Google AppEngine) to production services. Her background includes hands-on work automating load testing at eBay and delivering client-facing enterprise features earlier in her career, giving her a blend of performance-first and customer-focused engineering. A high-achieving student at San Jose State University (MS, 3.95 GPA), she pairs academic rigor with practical experience in databases (SQL, MongoDB), caching (Redis), and test tooling. Notably, she brings experience with protocol optimization (Google Protobuf, Netty) and message-driven architectures that help systems handle real-world scale and latency constraints.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological University
San José State University
English, Hindi, Kannada