Malini Rao
Strategic Partner, Design
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolMalini Rao is a product and experience design leader with 12 years of experience building design organizations that tie customer experience directly to commercial growth. She has led UX transformations and accessibility centers of excellence at enterprise software companies, driven multi-million-dollar investments through research-led product differentiation, and launched design systems and metrics that improved efficiency and retention. Currently a fractional Strategic Partner in Design and a graduate lecturer in infographics, she balances hands-on product strategy with scaling platform and AI-driven innovation. Beyond industry roles, she co-founded a thriving Boston-area cultural nonprofit that grew from events-only to a permanent temple and community hub, demonstrating grassroots fundraising and organizational leadership. Malini holds advanced degrees in visual communication and telecommunications and is a patent-holding speaker and educator who champions inclusive, performance-focused design cultures.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Vanavani Higher Secondary SchoolMA Telecommunication, MA Telecommunication at Michigan State UniversityIndian Institute of Technology BombayMA Fine Arts, MA Fine Arts at Stella Maris College, ChennaiKendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
English, Kannada, Tamil, Hindi
Github Skills (2)
ovirt10
virtualization10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
oVirt/ovirt-site
Oct 2013 - Dec 2013
oVirt website
Contributions:11 commits in 2 months
virtualizationovirt-websiteovirt
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