Amit Rao

Engineering Leader at Amazon/Ring and Founder/CTO of Pixie Bytes LLC Ex-Microsoft/Intuit/Comcast/Yahoo/Ciena/Synopsys

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Objective: I want to serve as a technical leader on cutting edge products and deliver quality craftsmanship. My technical leadership in areas ranging from mobile apps software to OO server and system software provides a rich background for creative thinking. I enjoy working with others to apply clever ideas to the creation of new products. Specialties: software design and development, mobile apps, product design and planning, technical innovations/IP, research, product support. mobile apps on the app/play store: - Amazon Alexa - MyHealthID (iOS/android/web) - Xfinity xFi - XFINITY Home (IOS/android) - Mint (IOS) - Quicken Mobile (IOS) - ParkSnap (IOS) - Yahoo! Messenger (replaced with Yahoo Livetext) (IOS) MacOS apps - Slowhand (Music instruction) Cloud Services - Yahoo Messenger - Xfinity Home - MyHealthID - Windows runtime/static code analysis Microsoft Products shipped - Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003/2008, PREfix/PREfast Open source contributions - SystemC - Resource Awareness Philly - Daily Myths (NASA space hackathon) - Ventivader (open-source bridged ventilator for Covid-19 crisis)

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Experience (13 roles)

Software Engineering Leader

Current

Ring · Full-time

Jan 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos·Irvine, California, United States

I am one of the technical leads on Ring iOS and manage multiple Ring mobile engineering teams. Skills: Android Development · Swift (Programming Language) · Coaching · iOS · Continuous Integration (CI) · Engineering · Research and Development (R&D) · Computer Science · Automation · Xcode

Engineering Technical Lead

Current

Amazon · Full-time

Apr 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 4 mos·Irvine, California, United States

New projects with Amazon Devices (Alexa) ecosystem Skills: Android Development · Swift (Programming Language) · iOS · Engineering · Computer Science · Automation · Xcode

3 yrs 7 mos

2 roles · Sep 2016 - Mar 2020

Principal iOS Engineer

Jun 2018 - Mar 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

Serving as the iOS technical lead developer for Digital Home iOS apps. Responsible for all phases of development, architecture, deployment and analysis of Xfinity Home iOS apps in the app stores. Skills: Swift (Programming Language) · iOS · Engineering · Computer Science · Automation · Xcode

Senior Engineering Manager

Sep 2016 - Jun 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos

Managing a team of 35 engineers consisting of technical leads, native iOS/android developers and QA engineers developing Xfinity Home iOS & android apps. Responsible for development of 3 apps – Xfinity Home iOS & android apps, Xfinity Home Hub app (android). Skills: Android Development · iOS · Cont...

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Education (4)

University of Cincinnati

1996 - 1998

I have completed graduate level course work in: parallel processing, operating systems, compilers, algorithms, networks and Distributed systems. My Masters thesis was in the area of compiler optimizations to reduce code size on embedded DSPs and the work was published in a premier compiler conference PLDI 1999. Skills: Continuous Integration (CI) · Computer Science

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay ( IIT Bombay )

1990 - 1994

Completed bachelor's level coursework in engineering physics, engineering math, solid state devices, Basic electric circuits, antennas, DSP, microprocessors, image processes, probability and stochastics, information theory & coding, neural networks, machines, power systems. Project work included RF electronics, assembly programming on 8086 chips and image processing and classification for medical applications. Skills: Continuous Integration (CI)

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Skills (25)

GitHubScalabilityObject Oriented DesigniOSAutomationCoachingC++Cloud ComputingProduct SupportSoftware EngineeringXcodeMySQLSwiftPush NotificationsCloudEngineeringEmbedded SystemsContinuous Integration (CI)System ArchitectureXcodeAndroid DevelopmentSwift (Programming Language)ResearchResearch and Development (R&D)Computer Science

Languages (3)▼

French(Elementary proficiency)Hindi, Marathi(Native or bilingual proficiency)English(Full professional proficiency)

Volunteer Experience (4)▼

Teaching Volunteer

Science is Elementary

Oct 2011 - Sep 2012 · 1 yr

CLIK room volunteer

Ronald McDonald House at Stanford

Sep 2011 - May 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos

Bike Ride committee member & volunteer

ALS Association WA Evergreen chapter

Aug 2006 - Feb 2010 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Soccer Coach for Boys 8 and Under

Current

AYSO Region 213

Mar 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 5 mos

Honors & Awards (5)▼

Engineering excellence award for Mint iOS CI/CD system

Issued by Consumer Ecosystem Group, Intuit · Dec 2014

Associated with Intuit Two time Winner of engineering excellence award for developing automated CI/CD system for Mint iOS resulting in increase in code coverage from 0 to 35% for Mint app code.

How we work award

Issued by Comcast · Feb 2020

Associated with Comcast "How we work award" within Digital Home Client engineering at Comcast.

"Locate your Yahoo! Messenger friends"

Issued by Yahoo! · May 2012

Associated with Yahoo! Part of a team of 2 mobile app engineers that developed a feature share the user's location when logged into iOS Y! Messenger. The app displays the location of the user's friends who are within a 5 mile radius. Finalist at Q2 Yahoo! hack--day, Sunnyvale, CA

Winner of Q3 hack day at Yahoo! for accessibility feature "Typing Blind with Yahoo! Messenger" (http://www.flickr.com/photos/frosh/7802702920/in/photostream)

Issued by Yahoo! Inc · Aug 2012

Associated with Yahoo! Amit Rao and Victor Tsaran Description Imagine being able to type on a keyboard without ever having to look at it!...At 3 times the usual typing speed. This hack project makes ordinary typing into magic. http://www.flickr.com/photos/frosh/7802702920/in/photostream Category: Mobile

CTOF 2014 Innovation award for Credit Report Monitoring in Mint

Issued by Intuit · May 2014

Associated with Intuit Mint Credit Report monitoring won an Intuit wide award at the annual company-wide technology conference CTOF 2014 in Burlingame. Mint credit report monitoring is available for Free to Mint users on Mint Web, iOS and Android platforms and has surpassed 1M registrations since launch.