Rakesh Kumar
Founder CTO at Techne Systems Inc.
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRakesh Kumar is a founder and technologist with 11 years of professional experience and a deep research pedigree from UIUC (PhD-level work in computer engineering). He has progressed from hands-on software engineering roles and internships at organizations like Twitter to leadership in data science at iManage and now leads two startups as Founder/CTO. Rakesh blends applied research with product-focused execution, building data-driven systems and translating complex models into production-ready services. Based in Chicago, he is equally comfortable steering technical strategy and rolling up his sleeves on implementation—a trait honed through both academic research and early-career engineering roles. An uncommon strength is his continuous thread from telecom and embedded systems to modern ML/data science, giving him a broad systems perspective when architecting scalable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
High School Pre-Engineering, High School Pre-Engineering at Islamia Public School GhotkiDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignB.S Telecommunication Engineering, B.S Telecommunication Engineering at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
Sindhi, Urdu, Hindi, English
Github Skills (45)
testbed10
mininet9
nodes8
mms8
goose8
network-visualization8
edges7
network-analysis7
graph-drawing7
pcap7
security7
network6
network-security6
packet-capture6
graph6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Vignesh2208/Melody
Oct 2016 - Apr 2017
A TestBed combining PowerFlow with Mininet for simulating MicroGrid Control Networks
Contributions:98 commits, 1 PR, 64 pushes in 5 months
microgridpowerflowmininettestbed
gopchandani/flow_validator
Jun 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:211 pushes, 8 branches, 1 tag in 2 years 2 months
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