Ganesh Rao
Principal Software Engineer at FactSet
Sacramento, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGanesh Rao is a Principal Software Engineer based in Sacramento with over a decade of experience designing and shipping high-accuracy, scalable full-stack systems. He has progressed through hands-on roles at FactSet—now leading engineering efforts there—after building production-grade data pipelines, APIs, and realtime services at Truvalue Labs and Trading Technologies. Comfortable across Node.js, MongoDB, AWS, and modern front-end stacks, he translates product requirements into robust, efficient engineering plans and operational nightly workflows. His background blends technical leadership with creative practice—an MFA in Visualization and early career work in interactive media and immersive art inform a strong sense for UX and prototype-driven development. He is known for improving accuracy and performance in time-series and data products while mentoring teams through Agile delivery. Ambitious about future-facing concepts, he combines artful design instincts with rigor in production engineering.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Visualization, Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Visualization at Texas A&M UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science & Engineering at Manipal University
English, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani
Github Skills (23)
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fixed-width8
summernote7
rows7
wysiwyg6
javascript6
text-editing5
ace-editor5
logger5
contenteditable4
html-editor4
logging4
rich-text-editor4
editor3
slim2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ganeshnrao/log-row
May 2019 - Apr 2021
A lightweight module to log objects as beautiful fixed width rows
Contributions:24 commits, 3 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 11 months
loggerfixed-widthwidthloggingrows
ganeshnrao/fountainer
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:41 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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