# Jagrat Rao > Software Engineer - Full-Stack Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jagrat SWE with experience building things end-to-end across many verticals. Skilled at integrating AI to increase productivity. Worked in fullstack web development over the last 5 years, mainly in Typescript/Javascript and Python. Currently working in the AI space building AI native solutions. Also build and ship open-source web apps, desktop apps, and CLI tools. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Barricade AI Jan 2024 – Present | United States - Built a Full-Stack Next.js/TypeScript AI assistant platform for law enforcement, integrating LLMs (Vercel AI SDK) with tools and RAG pipelines to produce structured, context-aware content for officers. - Drove product iteration with PostHog analytics (event tracking, session replays) and in-product feedback mechanisms, shipping improvements based on user behavior. - Integrated Python FastAPI microservices with multimodal AI models. Infrastructure containerized with Docker, deployed on Kubernetes (GCP). ### Co-Founder @ brb Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | New York City Metropolitan Area Building a social adventures platform connecting people for outdoor experiences around NYC. From developing the full-stack and mobile app to shooting all promotional videos and managing social media marketing, I handle end-to-end operations including trip curation, logistics, and community building. Leveraging AI tools at each level to optimize development and operations. ### Software Engineer @ CashTrac Inc. Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | United States • Implemented a logger middleware facilitating engineers to correlate backend logs with test failures using a correlation ID, thereby reducing debug time for failed integration tests by approximately 75%. Additionally, optimized log storage to decrease disk usage from logs by 45%. ### Software Engineering - Cloud Solutions Intern @ Onix Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | United States - Built Google Cloud infrastructure for new customers using Terraform, improving setup time by 50%. - Implemented data processing pipelines and workflows using Python and libraries like pandas and NumPy, enabling efficient data manipulation. This led to the creation of a business metrics dashboard for the C-suite using Google Workspace tools. ### Developer Intern @ Astral Aerial Solutions Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 Drone Mapping field work was done where I flew and mapped areas of farms. Worked on a front-end web development project. The application provided costumers with the ability to take tests for the drone flighting theory and practical test as well as advertising for the school. Django framework was used for both front end and backend. ### Employee Trainee - Software Development Team @ COPY CAT GROUP Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Worked on a full-stack Node.js web development project. The application involved providing enterprises with the ability to monitor their databases and servers. Node.js was used in the backend and vanilla JavaScript was used for the frontend. The project was intended help the DevOps team help maintain their databases that were providing to their customers. ## Education ### Master's degree in Software Engineering Rochester Institute of Technology Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 ### Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc in Computer Engineering California State University, Northridge Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jagrat-rao-9b730919b --- Source: https://flows.cv/jagrat JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jagrat/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01