# Yashwant Rao

> Principal Engineer at Wells Fargo

Location: Fremont, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yashwant

•Accomplished software professional with over 10 years of experience in software development, delivering high quality products and leading small to medium sized development teams.
•Wide experience in all phases of SDLC life cycle including Requirement gathering, Design, Development & Testing.
•Partnered with a leading US bank for over 10 years and assisted in executing several projects, both as a developer and lead at offshore & onsite locations.
•Strong background in Java & several J2EE technologies
•Possess excellent written & oral communication skills & people management skills.
•Collaborated with Syntel sales & pre-sales team in providing solutions and preparing proposals for customers
•Acquired significant experience in Release Management, Resource Management & Project management - Staffing, Contracts, Invoicing, Team Management & Relationship Management

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ Wells Fargo
Jan 2022 – Present

### Technical Jr. Project Manager @ Syntel
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
-Manage a mid sized development team at onsite and offshore
-Work directly with business & product managers on new requirements / enhancements, provide estimation & sizing, budget hours, prepare staffing plan and project plan
-Liaison between Syntel and leading US bank.
-Drive daily status meetings, review daily activities.

### Senior Developer @ Syntel
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked as a software developer for a leading US Bank in the San Francisco Bay area as an onsite co-ordinator.
Actively involved in onsite - offshore co-ordination, leading small teams, coding, code review, timely deliverables to customer
Acquired in-depth experience as a Release tech lead, worked on 4 releases, maintained the bank website with regular enhancements & updates, 
Developed several small projects for customer ranging from 60 to 200 person hours.  
Technologies worked upon Java, J2ee, Spring, Struts, Weblogic, JSP, Ajax.

### Sr. Project Lead @ Syntel
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 | Mumbai Area, India
-Worked as a Technical lead on development projects for a leading US bank. 
-Primary responsibilities included but not limited to development, low level desing, code review, training & mentoring.
-Technologies worked upon Java, J2ee, Spring, Struts, Oracle, Javascript, Ajax, JSON, XML & XSLT.

### Junior Developer @ Syntel
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Mumbai Area, India
Junior Developer at the offshore facility.
Primary responsibilities included development, documentation, unit testing, Integration testing,
Requirement analysis, 
Directly worked with customer from offshore at a very junior level to understand daily assignments & provide on-time deliverables
Primary technologies used, Powerbuilder 6, Java 1.4, J2ee, HTML, JSP, Javascript, Oracle, Web services, SOAP, XSD, WSDL


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electronics
Shah & Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yashwant-rao-75210010

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Last updated: 2026-04-12