Raja Rao
VP Of Marketing at Kumo
California, United States
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Top SchoolRaja Rao is a growth-focused marketing executive and former engineer with 13+ years of cross-functional experience building demand, product, and developer-facing programs for AI, developer, and infrastructure companies. With a CS Master’s from UIUC and eight years of hands-on engineering and developer advocacy at VMware and Salesforce, he runs marketing like an operational supply chain—coordinating teams, contractors, and channels to drive pipeline, not vanity metrics. As VP of Growth at Redis he scaled zero-touch cloud adoption 4x and co-founded FunnelMind.ai to apply explainable ML and GenAI to diagnose leaky funnels, blending technical rigor with commercial instincts. He’s equally fluent in enterprise GTM and PLG motions, creates technical content and platforms (e.g., TestAutomationU-style initiatives), and even contributes full-stack projects like a React-Redux CRUD app integrating JWT auth. Known for obsessive attention to brand detail and a willingness to “do whatever it takes,” he excels at translating deep tech into credible narratives that win technical buyers.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BE, BE at P.E.S. College of EngineeringMasters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Hindi, Kannada
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Github Skills (27)
javascript10
expressjs10
language-agnostic10
theory10
redux10
nodejs10
react10
ios9
twitter9
authentication9
mongodb-database9
user-authentication9
uistoryboard9
form-validation9
jwt9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
rajaraodv/react-redux-blog
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
A sample React Redux CRUD app
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:39 commits, 34 PRs, 75 pushes in 20 days
Contributions summary:Raja contributed to the development of a React Redux CRUD application, focusing on both front-end and back-end aspects. They implemented form validation and integrated authentication using JWT. The user also made changes to the routing and build process, enhancing the overall structure and functionality of the application.
crudreact-redux
applitools/example-selenium-java-junit-classic
Mar 2019 - May 2020
Applitools Example: Selenium Java JUnit with the Classic Runner
Contributions:31 commits, 20 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 1 month
applitoolsjunitselenium-javaapplitools-exampleapplitools-eyes
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