# Tejas Rao

> Senior Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tejas

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Akamai Technologies
Jan 2023 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States
Implemented media security features, including manifest manipulation and segment encryption, for live-streaming media using C++.
Implemented Brotli compression, weak ETag support, and support for “partial combined objects” on Akamai’s
web products. One customer experienced over 30% fewer origin hits, and most experienced up to 10% quicker average delivery times to mobile users after opting in.

### Software Engineer II @ Akamai Technologies
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Santa Clara, California, United States
Designed and led development of an internal web-based application to track product releases using React and Flask.
Created tools using Python to aid in debugging and testing scenarios on a globally distributed content delivery network.
Designed a new feature to prioritize latency-sensitive content on edge machines within the CDN.

### Software Engineer @ conDati
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Created libraries to build animated, interactive data visualizations using Python, React, D3.js, and WebGL.
Implemented microservices on a Kubernetes cluster that continuously run data science queries from multiple databases and stream the results into an in-memory cache for instant access to new information.
Created a containerized Web application, written using Python and rendered by a React/Redux front-end, to display these data streams inside interactive dashboards and on-demand, procedurally generated reports.
Designed and led development of a scalable data pipeline written in Python that loads historical and real-time web analytics data into a central database while minimizing compute cost and tolerating extraction faults such as rate limiting.

### Software Engineering Intern @ NVIDIA
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Santa Clara, California, United States
Patched firmware for Tegra's power management processor to remove MISRA C violations, in order to comply with software safety regulations per ISO 26262.
Substantially refactored the codebase to eliminate unsafe debugging routines from the production build.
This internship was completed as part of a Major Qualifying Project (capstone) at WPI during the spring semester of 2019.

### Student Assistant @ Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Worcester, MA
Tutored students and graded assignments for various courses in the Computer Science department.
Led laboratory and conference sections throughout the class term.
Worked with the course’s professor to revise syllabi and other material as needed.

### Software Engineering Intern @ SignalFire Wireless Telemetry
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Hudson, MA
Designed and implemented a network security protocol for transmitting AES-encrypted data packets over a proprietary network of wireless monitoring devices.
Implemented a protocol for safely updating the firmware of these devices remotely.
Created network profiling tools to aid in debugging and scaling the protocols used throughout.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tez011

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Last updated: 2026-03-22