# Vinay Kumar Rai

> Staff Software Engineer

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

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Instacart
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer II @ Instacart
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco
Part of the commerce team, work in the following areas:
Discount platform (offer targeting, presentation, redemption, calculation and reporting)
Invoicing
Tax service, Vertex
Core orders life cycle
Payments
Pricing
Financial data
Invoicing accountability
Fraud detection

### Software Engineer @ Cisco
Jan 2013 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
I am part of network content security team and work for platform software team. My job responsibility includes working on new firewall platforms, support in sustenance of existing platforms and also working on customer found defects.

### Software Engineer @ Cisco Systems
Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 | Bangalore, India
I worked for the PPM (Pluggable Port Module) team. My responsibility was to provide embedded support for new pluggable being introduced on new and existing ONS platforms, maintenance of existing pluggable and any customer cases related to it.

I worked for Optical Transport Business Unit(OTBU), which develops networking devices for long haul and metro networks. I was part of the NMS team. As part of this team I added TL1 support for IPPM(Inter Path Performance Management), FRR(Fast Route Regeneration) feature and new payloads (IB, FEoE and HDTV) on ONS15454 platform. 

Then I made a shift to the embedded team. Here I owned the offline manufacturing diagnostics development for new CPT600 platform. This includes 3 boards (Uplink, Tributary and Pizza Box). The diagnostics support was for all the components on the board

### Project Intern @ Cisco Systems
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | Bangalore, India


## Education
### MS in Computer Science
Stony Brook University

### B. Tech in Computer Science
Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12