Rani Zilpelwar
Engagement Manager at 8th Light
United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolRani Zilpelwar is an Engagement Manager and strategic engineering leader with 15+ years in technology and eight years at her current agency, blending hands-on technical execution with business development and delivery strategy. She excels at operating in the Human API layer—coaching engineers into leadership, building architectural governance, and diagnosing client friction to align technical talent with business outcomes. At 8th Light she has led high-concurrency platform modernization efforts, launched internal AI marketplaces and productivity tooling, and drove POCs that moved teams toward stronger testing and API contracts. Known for creating safe-to-fail cultures, she pairs deep delivery experience with consultative account expansion and team-building practices like Team Agreements. Her background spans full-stack engineering, QA automation, and management across distributed teams, and she values long-term relationships as a key driver of sustainable engineering impact.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Stony Brook University
Github Skills (3)
tac7
console2
ruby2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ranizilpelwar/tic_tac_toe_client
May 2018 - Jul 2018
Client-side web app in Sinatra that makes requests and displays web pages on the browser for Tic Tac Toe
Contributions:18 PRs, 71 pushes, 13 branches in 1 month
sinatrabrowserclient-siderailsdisplays
ranizilpelwar/TicTacToeRuby
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:17 PRs, 150 pushes, 15 branches in 2 months
console-gameconsoletoerubytac
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