Kavya Asha Rao

Overview

Currently at HubSpot, where I work on growth engineering. Built the experimentation framework 32 product teams use to ship changes safely. I teach a weekend class on React.

Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Sep 2025 - Present
   HubSpot · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
   • Previously an operator for 7 years before investing.
   • Sit on 4 boards.
   • Backed 21 founders at pre-seed and seed.
2. Engineering Manager

   Oct 2022 - Sep 2025
   Comcast · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
   • Led the migration of 35 services to Node.js.
   • Moved 90% of growth traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
3. Full-Stack Engineer

   Feb 2021 - Jun 2022
   Capital One · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 17 minutes to under 3.
   • Moved 67% of growth traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
4. Senior Full-Stack Engineer

   Oct 2019 - Feb 2021
   Pinterest · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
   • Led the migration of 58 services to React.
5. Senior Full-Stack Engineer

   Aug 2017 - Oct 2019
   Adobe · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
   • Built the experimentation framework 17 product teams use to ship changes safely.

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Education

1. Rhode Island School of Design

   BFA, Computer Engineering
   2006 - 2010