Vikram Rahul Rao

Overview

13 years in software engineering, the last 2 at Brightline Technologies, where I lead the real-time team. Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 19% in two quarters. Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 30 a week to 1. Before that: Coinbase and Fidelity Investments. Most at home with Go and WebSockets.

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Sep 2024 - Present
   Brightline Technologies · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 462ms to 45ms.
   • Shipped 25 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
2. Staff Software Engineer

   Nov 2020 - Sep 2024
   Coinbase · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Grew the real-time team from 4 to 16 engineers.
   • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 502ms to 179ms.
3. Software Engineer

   Dec 2017 - Nov 2020
   Fidelity Investments · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 30 minutes to under 5.
4. Software Engineer

   Dec 2014 - Dec 2017
   Boston Consulting Group · 3 yr · Contract · New York, NY
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 23 minutes to under 3.
5. Software Engineer

   Sep 2013 - Nov 2014
   HP · 1 yr 2 mo · Contract · New York, NY
   • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 647ms to 83ms.

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Education

1. Ohio State University

   BA, Information Technology
   2009 - 2013