Sumit Rai
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Yahoo
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolSumit Rai is a Senior Principal Software Engineer based in Sunnyvale with over a decade of hands-on experience driving front-end architecture and delivery for Yahoo Finance. He specializes in modern web stacks—React, JavaScript and Node—leading large, performance-sensitive migrations and building reusable libraries that improve developer velocity and operational reliability. At Yahoo he has progressed from legacy-stack maintenance to defining next-generation web architectures, mentoring engineers and shaping cross-property integrations. Known humorously on GitHub as "just a cat which can code a little," he combines pragmatic engineering with a playful curiosity. His background blends an M.Tech. from IIT Roorkee and strong early academic performance with deep institutional knowledge of large-scale consumer web products.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Hons., Information Technology, 9.01 (CPI), Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Hons., Information Technology, 9.01 (CPI) at SSCET, Bhilai
Hindi, English
Stackoverflow
11reputation
893reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (180)
tooling10
vue-table10
storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
react-table10
datatable10
ember10
pagination10
grouping10
datagrid10
isolation10
web-development10
javascript10
solidjs10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
itssumitrai/online-dress-store
Jul 2021 - Aug 2022
Online dress store
Contributions:43 PRs, 105 pushes, 43 branches in 1 year 1 month
react
itssumitrai/itssumitrai.github.io
Jan 2016 - Jan 2021
Personal website for Sumit Rai
Contributions:11 PRs, 20 pushes, 13 branches in 5 years 1 month
reacttailwindcssraitypescriptnextjs
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