Smita Rao
Engineering Manager at Ai2
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSmita Rao is an Engineering Manager based in Redmond with 8 years of experience building high-performance, multithreaded enterprise systems and cloud-based SaaS solutions. She has a strong background in Java and Python, and a track record of delivering end-to-end client-server, UI, and networking protocol projects across automotive, telecom, and enterprise domains. At Ai2 she leads engineering efforts, having previously designed IVR SaaS at Cisco and centralized logging pipelines at MTN, and she brings hands-on experience from connected-vehicle systems and embedded audio work. Known for applying TDD and pragmatic OOP design, she combines people leadership with deep technical ownership through the full product lifecycle. Notably, her career weaves real-time vehicle monitoring and voice-activated in-car services into cloud-delivered solutions, showing a knack for bridging embedded and cloud architectures. She holds a Bachelor’s in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the University of Mumbai.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering at University of Mumbai
Github Skills (15)
question-answering6
reader5
hierarchical5
translation5
translators5
pdf-generation5
mechanism5
pdf5
squad5
summarization4
nlp4
tensorflow3
pdf-reader3
minecraft2
pytorch2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
allenai/pdf-component-library
Oct 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:8 reviews, 35 commits, 8 PRs in 10 months
allenai/ai2-scholarqa-lib
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
Repo housing the open sourced code for the ai2 scholar qa app and also the corresponding library
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 comments in 1 day
multidoc-qaquestion-answeringscholarly
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