Shan Rao
Group Product Manager at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolShan Rao is a seasoned product leader based in Mountain View with 11 years of experience building privacy, safety, and security products at Google and prior leaders in cybersecurity. She has led product portfolios across OS privacy features, enterprise cloud security, threat detection, incident response, and endpoint and open source software security—translating deep technical knowledge into products that keep people and enterprises safe. Earlier roles at Shape Security and Palo Alto Networks saw her scale product teams, drive detection of sophisticated botnets, and help shepherd a startup from Series C to a $1B exit. Shan pairs a master's in network and security engineering (summa cum laude) with hands-on background in network and data center engineering, enabling her to bridge research, engineering, and go-to-market strategy. Notably, she has repeatedly moved between platform-level security and consumer privacy work, giving her a rare perspective on both attacker behavior and large-scale product safety design.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, magna cum laude, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, magna cum laude at Wichita State University
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Github Skills (4)
ios6
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swift6
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Github contributions (5)
qwertyshan/qwertyshan.github.io
Feb 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:62 pushes in 10 years 1 month
qwertyshan/MemeMe
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:27 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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