Rahul Rao

Rahul leads the engineering, analytics, information technology, process excellence, and project management teams at Understood.

With expertise and a successful track record in product development and new technology integration, Rahul brings an inherent passion for innovation and helps shape the organization’s growth strategy and longer-term product ambitions. 

Rahul started his career as an employee at a software firm, which gave him the unique opportunity to architect and launch multiple products across a variety of companies and markets. It also provided him with the understanding and context he needed to learn how to take products through multiple iterations to the next level. 

Previous roles include senior director of engineering at Pager and VP of engineering at QuickFrame. Most recently, Rahul was a senior director at Zillow Group, where he ran the internal Developer Experience department and was in charge of bringing cross-functional products from concept to reality.

Rahul earned a master of science degree in integrated digital media with a focus on human-computer interaction (HCI) at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. He is based in Brooklyn, New York.