Rakesh Misra
Director, R&D Engineering at VMware
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolRakesh Misra is a technology leader and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building AI-driven mobile networking platforms, currently directing R&D Engineering at VMware in Palo Alto. He co-founded Uhana to bring real-time deep learning into 4G/5G and media applications, a venture now integrated into VMware’s efforts to make mobile networks a programmable, monetizable foundation. A Stanford PhD and former Microsoft PhD Fellow with wins like an ACM MobiCom Best Paper, he blends rigorous research with product-focused execution across cloud, networking, and ML. Rakesh’s background spans industry R&D (Uber, Alibaba alumni signals on his GitHub), top-tier academia, and hands-on teaching, reflecting both deep technical breadth and mentorship experience. He’s focused on accelerating operator innovation while driving down costs and improving QoS—often by making complex network functions easily pluggable for developers.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasPhD, Electrical Engineering, PhD, Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
English
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
lghupan/Starfish
Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:18 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
vayu-stanford/cs244-pa3
May 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:22 pushes in 9 months
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