Neel Rao
Co-Founder at Glimmer
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeel Rao is a founder and product-minded engineer with 13 years of experience building edtech and data-driven learning tools, currently co-founding Glimmer to redefine how teachers teach. A former high school math teacher and Associate Product Manager at IXL, he blends classroom experience with rigorous technical training (BS CS, MS Symbolic Systems, Stanford) to design measurement-forward, equity-minded learning systems. His background spans data science, research, and product roles—leading analytics at Sonar, designing evaluation frameworks at Stanford, and shipping classroom-facing features at TeachFX and PeerTeach. Neel specializes in how people learn academic and SEL skills and in applying AI responsibly in classrooms, an interest grounded in both hands-on teaching and lab-based research. Colleagues describe him as someone who translates educational theory into practical, measurable product outcomes that scale.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, 4.4 GPA, High School, 4.4 GPA at Liberal Arts and Science AcademyMaster of Science - MS, Symbolic Systems, Master of Science - MS, Symbolic Systems at Stanford University
Github Skills (84)
push-notifications9
obsolete9
react-native-app9
auth9
hosting9
firebase9
receipt-validation9
google-auth9
multiplayer9
dedicated9
react-hooks9
crashlytics9
storage9
firestore9
realtime-database8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
raoneel/learn3d
Jun 2020 - Oct 2020
Learn coding in 3D Worlds
Contributions:90 commits, 2 PRs, 34 pushes in 4 months
learn-codingworldsthreejs
raoneel/cubicengine
Apr 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:21 commits in 25 days
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