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Hi, I’m Kunal Rao, a technology leader with 20 years of experience across mining, gaming, insurance, health, and finance. I specialise in delivering cloud-native platforms, IoT solutions, and data services, and I enjoy building cross-functional teams that ship reliable software at scale. I love turning complex problems into elegant, automated systems that keep stakeholders informed and secure. I’m passionate about architecture, DevOps, and modern cloud ecosystems across AWS and Azure, and I enjoy mentoring teams to achieve measurable outcomes through pragmatic, user-centered design.…Hi, I’m Kunal Rao, a technology leader with 20 years of experience across mining, gaming, insurance, health, and finance. I specialise in delivering cloud-native platforms, IoT solutions, and data services, and I enjoy building cross-functional teams that ship reliable software at scale. I love turning complex problems into elegant, automated systems that keep stakeholders informed and secure. I’m passionate about architecture, DevOps, and modern cloud ecosystems across AWS and Azure, and I enjoy mentoring teams to achieve measurable outcomes through pragmatic, user-centered design.

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Hi, I’m Kunal Rao, a technology leader with 20 years of experience across mining, gaming, insurance, health, and finance. I specialise in delivering cloud-native platforms, IoT solutions, and data services, and I enjoy building cross-functional teams that ship reliable software at scale. I love turning complex problems into elegant, automated systems that keep stakeholders informed and secure. I’m passionate about architecture, DevOps, and modern cloud ecosystems across AWS and Azure, and I enjoy mentoring teams to achieve measurable outcomes through pragmatic, user-centered design.…Hi, I’m Kunal Rao, a technology leader with 20 years of experience across mining, gaming, insurance, health, and finance. I specialise in delivering cloud-native platforms, IoT solutions, and data services, and I enjoy building cross-functional teams that ship reliable software at scale. I love turning complex problems into elegant, automated systems that keep stakeholders informed and secure. I’m passionate about architecture, DevOps, and modern cloud ecosystems across AWS and Azure, and I enjoy mentoring teams to achieve measurable outcomes through pragmatic, user-centered design.

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Hi, I’m Kunal Rao, a technology leader with 20 years of experience across mining, gaming, insurance, health, and finance. I specialise in delivering cloud-native platforms, IoT solutions, and data services, and I enjoy building cross-functional teams that ship reliable software at scale. I love turning complex problems into elegant, automated systems that keep stakeholders informed and secure.

I’m passionate about architecture, DevOps, and modern cloud ecosystems across AWS and Azure, and I enjoy mentoring teams to achieve measurable outcomes through pragmatic, user-centered design.

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Work Experience

Principal Software Engineer at Fortescue AI (Fortescue Metals Group)

February 1, 2026 - Present

Lead engineer for geospatial automation tools supporting mine-site dewatering, infrastructure routing, and civil engineering planning. Delivered Python-based systems that convert spatial inputs into buildable alignments, procurement-ready material take-offs, CAD-ready outputs, and auditable engineering reports. Implemented a geospatial route-optimisation platform using Dijkstra, Steiner-tree, and Hybrid A* for road alignment planning, incorporating civil-design constraints and waterway freeboard.

Principal Consultant at Versent

July 1, 2023 - February 1, 2024

Designed and delivered a hybrid AWS-native integration platform, migrating OT and IT systems. Built components using AWS Lambda, EC2, SQS, CloudWatch; designed bridge architecture with on-prem; led self-service APIs and a Cloud Kickstart CLI; established governance and CI/CD pipelines across cloud providers.

Product Lead of Product Services (Innovations Centre) at BHP

January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2021

Delivered cloud enablement for product teams with secure, scalable infrastructure and governance. Established cloud-native practices, IoT sensor gateway architecture, roadmaps for device software/hardware, and scaling cloud environments across mining sites. Implemented dev-ops/data-ops best practices and a self-service API/CLI to accelerate onboarding.

Senior Software Engineer at RAC Insurance

January 1, 2017 - March 1, 2018

Designed and implemented data pipelines in Databricks and Spark to support insurance-use cases. Built ingestion frameworks to migrate data from on-premise SQL servers and Oracle databases to the cloud. Established a robust data lake in AWS with S3, Databricks, and open-source tools for analytics and reporting.

Senior Software Engineer at Enterprise Application Services (EAS)

January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2021

Developed a bespoke policy-document printing solution using J2EE, RESTful services, WebLogic, JPA, and SQL Server; deployed in hybrid on-prem/cloud environments; established RESTful interfaces and integration patterns.

Technical Lead at PSO LIS (WA Health – DoH)

October 1, 2014 - December 1, 2016

Led a software engineering team to implement Mental Health Act 2011 features in the existing software; delivered .NET/Ext JS frontend, DI-based architecture, Hibernate, SQL Server, and AppFabric integration; coordinated deployment across systems.

Java Developer at WA DoH – PSOLIS

July 1, 2008 - June 1, 2013

Started as a Java developer, progressed to principal developer and technical lead; contributed to core PSOLIS modules, release management, and on-call support.

Software Developer at Software Solutions – New Delhi, India

January 1, 2001 - January 1, 2004

In India, contributed to two-tier client-server applications for schools and logistics (VB-based); early software development roles.