Addy Rao | Cloud-Native Software Engineer | NYU MS CE

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

Programming Languages
Python Java C/C++ SQL/PL-SQL JavaScript/TypeScript HTML CSS XML
Cloud & Data Engineering
Oracle Cloud GCP AWS Kubernetes Docker Cloudflare CI/CD Terraform NoSQL (MongoDB, Firebase, CosmosDB) Apache Spark Apache Hadoop/MapReduce REST APIs SOAP APIs Big Data Analytics BI Reporting Cloud Integrations
AI, Machine Learning and Engineering
PyTorch TensorFlow LLM fine-tuning Pandas Neural Networks Deep Learning CUDA Gemini DeepSeek-R1 NotebookLM Huggingface Scikit-learn High Performance & Distributed ML System Design Cybersecurity Linux/Shell Scripting Git Full-Stack Development Data Structures & Algorithms
Technologies and Frameworks
React.js Node.js Numpy Salesforce Square WordPress Google Workspace Microsoft Office Confluence Email Templating (GMass, Mail Merge, Jinja2) OpenGL AutoCAD
Management
Agile Project Management/Scrum SDLC DevOps Technical Consulting People Management Project Management Business Management Event Management JIRA Microsoft Project Mentoring & Training
Creative
Adobe Photoshop Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe After Effects Final Cut Pro Canva Video Production Adobe Creative Suite Blender Audacity GIMP Handbrake Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Studio Multi-source live streaming

Professional Experience

Principal Technical Architect | Operations Lead (Pro Bono)

The Actors Theatre Workshop, New York, NY

Sept 2025 - Present
  • Hardened IT security by developing processes, conducting UAC security audits and transitioning from password sharing to SSO and 2FA based integrated workflows. Implemented Cloudflare DDoS & Bot protection along with edge network caching to improve speed, reliability and security
  • Deployed Google Gemini and NotebookLM to digitize institutional knowledge into RAG-ready repositories
  • Automated and streamlined several HR, onboarding and CRM processes using AppsScript and Google Workspace configurations
  • Updated their WordPress site using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, refining content flow and improving formatting. Archived 50+ newsletters from legacy hosting providers, preventing permanent loss of historical media content
  • Maintained their IT infrastructure by updating systems, inventorying assets and organizing video equipment. Performed data recovery on a failing hard drive, recovering over 40GB of footage.
  • Directed theater operations as the primary onsite lead, reporting to the CTO. Handled technical onboarding & offboarding, HR, and complex scheduling for a multi-use facility. Oversaw the execution of several public events, managing 120+ single day volunteers to coordinate and time activities.
  • Managed a rotating workforce of 40+ volunteers, engaging people from diverse cultures, backgrounds and abilities to improve coordination and cohesion.

Independent Technical Contractor

Multiple Clients

Sept 2025 - Present
  • Provided detailed technical solutions to meet customer requirements, combining technology and business goals into productivity.
  • Upgraded website to match modern themes and their current branding

Staff Technical Consultant

Oracle, Bengaluru, IN

Mar 2022 - Jun 2023
  • Optimized SQL and Java code to improve report scaling and runtimes by up to 400% through cache optimization, execution plan analysis, source analysis and pipeline streamlining
  • Identified and patched a critical calculation issue that affected 900+ users by coordinating with cross - functional and support teams, minimizing impact and improving reliability
  • Developed, validated and deployed cloud integrations, fintech cloud solutions, BI reports and email blast reports
  • Optimized data ingestion pipeline by refactoring Java processing blocks and REST API handling, reducing latency and decreasing error rates by 12%.
  • Configured security policies, migrated environments & resolved JIRA tickets as a certified DevOps Engineer

Cloud Technical Consultant

Oracle, Bengaluru, IN

Sept 2020 - Mar 2022
  • Implemented complex user requirements as Oracle Cloud applications in Java and SQL for a major U.S. Healthcare project, specializing in financial and supply chain management (SCM) cloud
  • Designed and upgraded Java based user access controls (UAC) and workflow hierarchies, ensuring application security, data privacy and HIPAA compliance for over 40 roles
  • Developed large-scale SQL based business intelligence (BI) reports, executive dashboards and data analyses
  • Supported Agile project delivery through configurations, data loads & performance testing across multiple cycles
  • Mentored 30 junior analysts on Java, Cloud and SQL, promoting knowledge sharing
  • Facilitated development environment and workflow rule migrations as a technical consultant
  • Ensured data consistency across UI, multiple tools and reports. Validated SQL-based financial reports against Excel calculations to ensure zero errors when deployed

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.
  • Prioritized scalability and minimal compute requirements, implementing the entire application on the client side using JavaScript.

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