Vishal Rao
PhD Candidate
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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SeniorVishal Rao is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Georgia Tech specializing in computing systems, with eight years of industry and research experience focused on performance, distributed systems, and architecture. He combines academic rigor as a Graduate Research Assistant and SRC Research Scholar with hands-on industry work from AMD to NVIDIA and HP Labs, delivering performance debugging, low-latency C development, and microservice solutions. His background includes impactful server-performance research at AMD and cloud-software internships, giving him a practical edge in translating system-level insights into scalable implementations. Vishal’s teaching and research roles reflect strong mentorship and experimental validation skills, while his high academic standing from PES University underscores consistent technical excellence. He’s particularly drawn to design automation and systems-level performance optimization—often exploring subtle interactions between hardware architecture and distributed software stacks. Based in Atlanta, he bridges cutting-edge research with production-focused engineering to drive measurable system performance gains.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (62)
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cuda10
speech-recognition10
shell10
benchmark9
gist9
redisearch9
capistrano9
throughput9
latency9
datatables8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Kadle11/Mini-Python-Compiler-in-Lex-and-Yacc
Mar 2019 - Nov 2019
A Mini Compiler for Python, that parses the If-Else and While constructs, developed using Lex and Yacc
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 20 pushes in 9 months
compilerpythonyacc
Kadle11/Visualization_And_Operations_On_Graphs
Jul 2019 - Aug 2020
A project that uses OpenGL to Visualize Graphs and Perform Operations on them using a GUI.
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
visual-analyticsvisualizeguiopenglgraphs
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