# Shubham Rao — cshubhamrao.dev

> Senior Software Engineer building platform backends: APIs, infrastructure, reliability.

## Snapshot

- Senior SWE, Core Platform @ **Lyric.tech** — TypeScript services for supply-chain workflows and data APIs.
- Previously at **Tune AI (NimbleBox.ai)** — designed a gRPC backbone that serves **100M+ tokens/day**, trimmed latency by **40%**, and led OpenTelemetry adoption.
- Visiting scholar at **UC Berkeley SCET** on scholarship; studied at **SRM University**.
- Winner, **IIIT-Delhi HACKIIITD 2017** — blockchain-based misinformation detector built under pressure.
- Talked about **Apache APISIX** and reverse proxying high-volume inference traffic at **DevOpsDays Bengaluru 2023**.

## Education

- **UC Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET)** — Visiting Scholar, Data-X Program (2019). Scholarship recipient ($20K). Built Docker Hub analytics pipelines and participated in Bay Area hackathons.
- **SRM University** — B.Tech in Computer Science (2017-2021). Teaching Assistant (2019-2020), President's Placement Award recipient.

## Skills & Stack

- **Languages**: Go, Python, TypeScript, SQL
- **Backend**: gRPC + Protocol Buffers, REST/FastAPI, Apache APISIX
- **Infrastructure**: Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, Kafka, RabbitMQ
- **Observability**: OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, structured logging

## Projects

- **Colbert AI** — GPT-2 satire bot trained on 500+ monologues.
- **proto-opt-parse** — Protobuf option parsing at runtime for Go tooling.
- **docker-hub-data** — Data-X project collecting and analyzing Docker Hub usage.
- **ovms-serving** — OpenVINO Model Server utilities for inference workloads.
- **k8s-dashboard fix** — Upstream contribution to Kubernetes Dashboard.

## Contact

- Email: contact@cshubhamrao.dev
- GitHub: https://github.com/cshubhamrao
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cshubhamrao
- Website: https://cshubhamrao.dev