Summary
Chetan Rao is an experienced architect and technical leader with over two decades in the software development lifecycle and 13 years in senior engineering and leadership roles across embedded, build systems, and cloud-native integration. He has led cross-functional and multi-site teams to design CI/CD frameworks, microservices, installers for AI tooling, and complex platform integration work for Intel and other firms, often owning end-to-end solutions from requirement capture to deployment. Comfortable as Scrum Master and Product Owner, he blends hands-on engineering with project planning, estimation, and stakeholder alignment to deliver pragmatic architectures. His background in boot-to-UI integration, Android mainline builds, and embedded OS projects reveals deep expertise in low-level systems as well as modern cloud-native patterns. Based in Bengaluru, he brings a rare mix of legacy platform know-how and contemporary DevOps/CI practices that smooth the bridge between firmware, platform integration, and developer-focused tools. Colleagues value his ability to turn ambiguous cross-team challenges into concrete, maintainable designs.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bengaluru University
Graduate Diploma Information Technology, Graduate Diploma Information Technology at National Institute of Information Technology