Sid Rao

CEO at Positron Networks

Expertise: AI, distributed systems, cloud computing and research

Education: Purdue University

Sid Rao brings over two decades of technology leadership to his role as CEO of Positron Networks. Previously, he spent over a decade as director and general manager at AWS, where he pioneered real-time communication services and launched the Amazon Chime SDK. Rao holds a bachelor’s in chemistry from Purdue University.

 

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