Vinay Rao
Co-founder And CTO at Elvin
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolVinay Rao is a pragmatic technology leader and entrepreneur with 10 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, consumer mobile products, and AI-enabled features. As Co-founder and CTO based in Mountain View, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic leadership—having architected TypeScript AWS Serverless backends, led migrations of millions of data points with zero downtime, and accelerated release cadence to weeks. He has a proven track record delivering ML-driven product improvements (cutting error rates from ~25% to <2%) and shipping integrations from Apple Watch HealthKit to Shopify and podcast features using RAG. Prior roles span startup founding, web3 and serverless experiments, and senior engineering leadership at SmartThings and Yahoo, demonstrating breadth across devices, cloud services, and data analytics. Vinay’s approach pairs rapid prototyping with production-grade observability and tooling, and he often embeds himself in the codebase while scaling cross-functional teams. An uncommon detail: he’s built ultra-low-cost serverless demo products that deploy full-stack solutions for under $1/month, highlighting a knack for lean, efficient architectures.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Networking, M.S. Networking at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Engineering Electronics and Telecommunication, Bachelor of Engineering Electronics and Telecommunication at Thadomal Shahani Engineering College, University of Mumbai
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Github Skills (49)
iot-application10
smartapp10
tuya10
handlers10
sdk-nodejs10
upnp10
open-source10
internet-of-things10
dsc10
tasmota10
hue10
iot10
holochain10
smartthings10
zwave10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SmartThingsCommunity/st-schema-connectors
Dec 2018 - May 2019
Example connectors written for ST Schema
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 5 months
connectorsconnectorst-schemaschema-validation
workingmonk/awesome-smarthome
Nov 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:1 push in 11 months
home-automationsmarthomehome-assistantautomationhomeassistant
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