# Navaneeth Rao

> Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/navaneethrao

## Work Experience
### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Illumio
Jan 2025 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States
- Leading high Scale data systems, detection models and agentic AI solutions

### Staff Software Engineer @ Illumio
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Senior Software Developer @ Ketch
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Building Programmatic Data Privacy and Data Awareness solutions

### Senior Software Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Santa Clara, California, United States
https://medium.com/engineering-at-palo-alto-networks/apache-airflow-at-palo-alto-networks-f7e54a0b463e

### Senior Software Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

### Software Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Working on building the Big Data Infrastructure project to handle petabytes of data and provide Intelligence.
• Developing Java based microServices on Google Cloud that control orchestration functionalities
• Developing scalable data processing pipelines using Google Cloud dataproc and Apache Airflow to author workflows and enable several ML models and PySpark jobs run with ease
• Building a Self Managed Airflow solution with Apache Airflow on Google Cloud using Kubernetes with the ability to scale and run thousands of workloads on Dataproc clusters
• Working with Kubernetes, Kafka, Elastic Search, HDFS, Yarn, Flink, Python, GCP, BigQuery
• Developed monitoring and analytics tools of internal data services.
• Developed Automation frameworks for Functionality debugging and deployment of services

### Software Engineer II @ Verizon
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Jose
• Built MicroService API's for the next generation IPTV/media services.
• Worked with Scala, Java, Cassandra, Play framework, SBT, Kafka, ReactJS, REST API.
• Developed UI applications using React JS

### Graduate Assistant (Platform Engineer), Division of Information Technology @ University of Maryland
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | College Park
•	Application Development for user entry based data storage system using Drupal and DynamoDB. •	Design and development of Dynamo DB(no SQL) database and connectivity with web interface using RESTful API
•	Application and database hosting and migration of services to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

### Software Developer Intern @ Verizon
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Jose, California
• Worked on Verizon Cloud Platform Development
• Developed a Docker based Cloud Services monitoring and support tool using Django - python framework that works successfully with the data of 1000's of containers.
•  Built a Software Resource Reservation tool for the Cloud Platform
•  Data Analysis and Analytics on 1000’s of container data to provide solutions to container issues
• Working knowledge on cluster managers: Mesos/kubernetes/docker swarm

### Product Development Intern @ NVIDIA
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Bangalore,India
Software Design and development
•	Designed Software Functional Blocks for CAMERA SERIAL INTERFACE-3 using MIPI spec.
•	Implemented the FUNCTIONAL MODEL of CAMERA SERIAL INTERFACE-3 in C++.
•	Developed Unit Level test generators for the verification of Software model.


## Education
### Master’s Degree
University of Maryland - A. James Clark School of Engineering

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) (Hons.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/navaneethrao04

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Last updated: 2026-03-31