Chirag Rao is a Software Engineer 2 at Juniper Networks since January 2024, previously holding the position of Software Engineer Intern. During a tenure at IECSE Manipal from January 2022 to September 2023, Chirag served as Project Head, leading the official computer science club at MIT Manipal. Additionally, Chirag was a Full Stack Summer Intern at Skylark Drones in June 2023, where work involved developing an end-to-end solar thermography defect reporting system, and a Full Stack Winter Intern from December 2022 to March 2023, focusing on automating workflow pipelines for raster data conversion. Chirag is pursuing a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science at Manipal Institute of Technology, expected to graduate in July 2024, having completed high school at VIBGYOR Group of Schools in 2018.