# Vandana Sreenivasa Rao

> AI Search@M365 Copilot

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vandanasreenivasarao

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Semantic Search for M365 Copilot
- Microsoft Copilot Studio - Empower Agents with scoped, custom knowledge retrieval.
- M365 Copilot - Building vector indexes for grounding LLM with RAG

### Software Engineer, Member of Technical Staff @ Salesforce
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
Salesforce Search - Building cloud native large scale distributed systems for next Gen Search backend architecture that powers Generative AI for Salesforce CRM Search

### Course Grader @ University of Southern California
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Los Angeles, California, United States
CSCI 531 - Applied Cryptography

### AI Research Assistant @ Information Sciences Institute
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Los Angeles Area
Mentioned under former Graduate students here  http://www.emilio.ferrara.name/

### Software Engineer Intern @ Salesforce
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, CA, United States

### Software Engineer in DevOps @ Intuit
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Bangalore

### Member Of Technical Staff Intern @ Cloud Lending Solutions
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Bangalore


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science(General)
University of Southern California

### Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Information Science and Engineering
PES University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vrao3

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Last updated: 2026-03-29