Rao Remala is an Indian former software developer, now angel investor, and philanthropist.He was the first Indian to be hired at Microsoft in 1981.He was one of the lead developers of the first version of Microsoft Windows. He holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from NIT Warangal. Prior to joining Microsoft, he worked at HCL. Rao Remala was born in T. Kothapalem village Nagayalanka Mandalam in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh to a peasant family.He has a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from NIT Warangal and master's degree from IIT Kanpur.
HOW MICROSOFT STARTED
Indian including a guy called "Rao Remala" who made a demo that Microsofties at the time called "magic" that showed a awesome windowing system awesome nd helped Microsoft sell the varpour ware of Windows 1.0 and get orders and intimidate rivals even before a single line of code had been written.
RAO REMALA was born in 1949 in Talagada deevi Kothapalem, a small village in the
state of Andhra Pradesh, India, where he lived with his parents and four brothers and two sisters. He finished high school in a neighboring village and graduated with high est honors from REC Warangal College, India, in 1972. He earned a master's degree in computer science from IIT Kanpur and was a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington. While in India, he worked at DCM data products and for Hindu Computers Limited, which developed India's first microcomputer in 1978. Mr.Remala came to Seattle in 1981 to join Microsoft and was amongst the company's first fifty hires. He was also the first Indian hired and wrote the very first line of code of Windows (then called Interface Manager). He architected, developed, and managed such Microsoft flagship products as Basic, Cobol Compiler, Windows 10, Windows 2.0, OLE 1.0, OLE 2.0, Office 95, and Office 97 and held a range of positions in his twenty-three year long career there. He retired from Microsoft in 2004. Since retirement, he travels the world and funds a few charitable projects, including a foundation named after his fam ily, which is building an eye hospital in his village in Andhra Pradesh. He lives Medina, Washington, with his wife. Satya, and has two daughters, Srilakshmi and Srilata.