Rahul Desai
Sr. Staff Software Engineer at Zscaler
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolRahul Desai is a Sr. Staff Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building full-stack JavaScript applications and shaping software architecture at Zscaler. He specializes in React, Redux, Node.js/Express, and both SQL and NoSQL datastores, and has a strong background in UI/UX design and scalable backend services. Rahul's career spans early-stage startups and large enterprises—including a consulting engagement at Apple—where he delivered customer-facing apps, developer workshops, and marketing automation tools. He pairs hands-on implementation with mentoring, code review, and technical interviewing, helping teams adopt best practices in agile development. An NYU MS in Computer Science underpins his engineering rigor, and his side projects from the MEAN-stack era reflect a long-standing appetite for prototyping and tooling beyond day-to-day work.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at NYU Tandon School of EngineeringH.S.C. Science, H.S.C. Science at Yashwantrao Mohite CollegeS.S.C. Mathematics Science English History Geography Economics, S.S.C. Mathematics Science English History Geography Economics at Maharashtra Institute of TechnologyB.E. Computer Engineering, B.E. Computer Engineering at Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Engineering
English, Hindi, Marathi, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
html10
visualization10
build-tools10
zero-configuration10
recharts10
javascript10
foreach10
react10
developer-tools10
typescript10
google-api10
data-visualisation10
create-react-app10
charts9
regex9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rahul-desai3/todo
Jul 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:77 commits in 4 months
rahul-desai3/chat
Oct 2014 - Feb 2019
Contributions:33 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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