Sunil Rao
Sr. Software Developer at ShopRunner
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSunil Rao is a senior software developer based in Chicago with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications, visualization tools, and game/3D projects. He currently drives backend Kotlin services on Azure and crafts React + TypeScript frontends at ShopRunner, blending cloud-native engineering with polished user interfaces. His background spans Django/Python, Elixir/Phoenix, Java/Spring and BI visualizations, reflecting an ability to move fluidly between data-heavy backends and interactive frontends. Sunil has led online ordering and enterprise frontend efforts, solving thorny UI/UX and integration problems at scale. A former VR researcher who built campus visualizations in C++/OpenSceneGraph, he brings a practical 3D art sensibility to web interfaces that makes complex data more usable and engaging. Colleagues rely on him to take ownership of end-to-end features and translate ambiguous requirements into production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Illinois at Chicago
English, Kannada
Github Skills (14)
member8
django7
bulma7
react7
commerce5
python5
ecommerce5
cms4
java4
jekyll4
dsa4
cpp3
django-oscar3
api2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SunilRao01/Lakota-Language-Learning
Jul 2020 - May 2022
A custom CMS built for sharing educational material about the Lakota language.
Contributions:5 releases, 118 commits, 77 PRs in 1 year 10 months
cmsreactcustom-cmsbulmasharing
ChicagoDSA/Concourse-CI-CD
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:21 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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