Surekha Rao is a Principal Member of Technical Staff based in Palo Alto with 15+ years building distributed systems and a decade of experience in senior engineering roles across enterprise and startup environments. Currently at Oracle, she brings deep operational and architectural expertise from prior positions at Privacera, Imply, and Cisco, and she has led engineering efforts that span data platforms and cloud-native services. As an Apache Druid Committer and PMC member she contributes to core open-source analytics infrastructure, pairing hands-on coding with community stewardship. She also mentors at Next Mocā, reflecting a commitment to developing engineering talent and practical knowledge transfer. Trained at NIT Kurukshetra and USC, she combines rigorous academic foundations with a track record of shipping production-quality, scalable systems in both product and security-sensitive contexts.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS, MS at University of Southern California
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Bachelor of Technology - BTech at National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra
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