Venkat Rao
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Zessta Software Services Private Limited
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Summary
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Top SchoolVenkat Rao is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building high-impact, large-scale systems across startups and top-tier tech companies, now working on Siri at Apple. He has led privacy-sensitive and platform-level features at Google Maps for over 100M users, modernized observability tooling, and driven developer-velocity improvements. A pragmatic product engineer and founder, he also publishes polished consumer apps through his side business, Rao Studios, blending design sensibility with scalable engineering. Trained in systems and mechanical engineering, Venkat brings a multidisciplinary approach—combining historical context, curiosity-driven learning, and hands-on mentorship—to solve complex problems and ship reliable software.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at Bhilai Institute of Technology (BIT), DurgPost Graduate Student Status Programme (PGSSP), Data Science, ML and Spatial Informatics, Post Graduate Student Status Programme (PGSSP), Data Science, ML and Spatial Informatics at International Institute of Information Technology
English, Hindi, TeluguProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
venkat05091990/SolvingProblems
Feb 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:56 commits, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
venkat05091990/gl-retail-ordering-system
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:30 pushes in 13 days
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