Addy Rao | Cloud-Native Software Engineer

Aditya "Addy" Rao

Cloud-Native Software Engineer | Engineering FinTech & Advanced AI/ML Systems

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Education

New York University

M.S. in Computer Engineering

Focus: AI & Machine Learning

Coursework: Cloud, Project Management, Big Data, Machine Learning & AI, Deep Learning, Networking and Security.

May 2025

Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering

B.Eng in Computer Science

Coursework: Machine Learning, Business Management, Cloud, Data Structures & Algorithms, IoT & Network Security.

May 2020

Skills

Cloud & Engineering
Oracle Cloud GCP AWS Kubernetes Docker Cloudflare CI/CD Network Security Linux
AI, Data & Development
Python Java C/C++ PyTorch TensorFlow LLM React.js SQL/PL-SQL Big Data
Management & Creative
Agile Project Management Jira People Management Adobe Creative Suite Video Production Microsoft Project

Professional Experience

Technology and Operations Manager

The Actors Theatre Workshop, New York, NY

Sept 2025 - Present
  • Hardened IT security via Cloudflare DDoS & bot protection; Transitioned Google Workspace to SSO/MFA and managed MDM deployment.
  • Deployed Google Gemini and NotebookLM to digitize knowledge into RAG-ready repositories, automating HR and marketing workflows with AppsScript.
  • Primary onsite lead managing 40+ volunteers, overseeing technical onboarding and complex scheduling systems.

Staff Technical Consultant

Oracle, Bengaluru, IN

Mar 2022 - Jun 2023
  • Optimized Java/SQL code: Improved report scaling and runtimes by up to 400% through cache optimization and pipeline streamlining.
  • Patched critical calculation issues affecting 900+ users, improving reliability via cross-functional coordination.
  • Developed fintech cloud solutions, BI reports, and optimized data ingestion reducing latency by 12%.

Cloud Technical Consultant

Oracle, Bengaluru, IN

Sept 2020 - Mar 2022
  • Specialized in Financial and Supply Chain (SCM) Cloud for a major U.S. Healthcare project.
  • Designed Java-based UAC and workflow hierarchies, ensuring HIPAA compliance for 40+ roles.
  • Mentored 30 junior analysts on Java, Cloud, and SQL architectures.

Full Stack Developer

InternCube, Bengaluru, IN

Jun 2019 - Sept 2019
  • Led a team of 4 to create a serverless web application using Flask, Firebase, and Cloud Run for the college's official internship portal.

Featured Projects

AI Optimization: Financial Reasoning

Python, Huggingface, QLoRA

Fine-tuning Gemma 3 and DeepSeek-R1 using Quantized LoRA for specialized financial logic and inference.

Disease Outbreak Prediction

LSTM/ARIMA, GCP, React

Engineered hybrid ML model achieving 83% accuracy; architected multi-client data ingestion on GCP for regional forecasts.

ResNet Digit Recognition

Python, PyTorch

Implemented a 6.5M parameter ResNet architecture achieving 97% accuracy on image datasets.

Certifications

Cloud Engineering

Google

OCI Certified Associate

Oracle

Neural Networks & Deep Learning

DeepLearning.AI

DevOps Foundation

Oracle

Oracle Cloud ML Certified Associate

Oracle

Application Integration with Oracle Cloud

Oracle

Introduction to TensorFlow

Google