Vishal Rao
Engineer (on Contract) at MariaDB
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolVishal Rao is a seasoned software engineer with over 20 years in the industry, currently focused on applied AI and cloud-native database services with MariaDB and SkySQL. He has deep expertise in distributed in-memory data management—contributing to products that evolved into the Apache Geode ecosystem—and a strong track record of shipping scalable systems across startups and enterprise teams. His background spans low-level systems, cryptography, and developer-facing platforms, reflecting broad language and platform fluency from C++ and Java to cloud tooling and SRE practices. Known for pragmatic engineering leadership on Serverless Analytics and DBaaS projects, he blends hands-on development with mentoring and operational reliability. Based in Pune with an MS in Software Engineering from USC, he describes himself wryly on GitHub as an “Avid Software Professional,” hinting at a curious, self-deprecating approach to continuous learning.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science (Software Engineering), MS, Computer Science (Software Engineering) at University of Southern CaliforniaB.Engg., Computer Science and Engineering, B.Engg., Computer Science and Engineering at Manipal Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (199)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vjr/yugabyte-db
May 2021 - Nov 2021
The high-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale apps.
Contributions:29 pushes, 9 branches in 6 months
connection-poololtpdistributed-sql-databasesql-databasesql
vjr/distinst
Dec 2021 - Jul 2024
Installer Backend
Contributions:6 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
backendinstallerbackupdocker
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