{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Use Indian English|date=July 2025}} '''Rao Remala''' is an Indian former software developer, now angel investor, and philanthropist.<ref name="bloomberg"/> He was one of the lead developers of the first version of Microsoft Windows.
== Life == Rao Remala was born in T. Kothapalem village Nagayalanka Mandalam in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, India, to a Kapu family.<ref name="ChidanandRajghattal1">{{cite web|last1=Chidanand|first1=Rajghattal|title=Dil da maamla or Bill da maamla? Part II|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/Dil-da-maamla-or-Bill-da-maamla-Part-II/articleshow/28160333.cms|website=timesofindia.indiatimes.com|publisher=TNN|access-date=29 September 2016}}</ref><ref name="Remala interview">{{cite web |last1=Remala |first1=Rao |author2=Bhatt, Amy |title=Rao V. Remala, Interview |url=https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/saohc/id/143 |publisher=University of Washington, University Libraries, South Asian Oral History Project |date=2008-03-20}}</ref> He received a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from NIT Warangal and master's degree from IIT Kanpur.<ref name="bloomberg">{{cite web|title=Rao V. Remala Executive profile & Biography - Business week|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=2704519&privcapId=1217370&previousCapId=54107604&previousTitle=S7%20Software%20Solutions%20Private%20Limited|website=bloomberg.com|access-date=29 September 2016}}</ref>
Remala worked at HCL<ref>{{cite book |title=Gates: how Microsoft's mogul reinvented an industry and made himself the richest man in America |author-link=Stephen Manes |last=Manes |first=Stephen |author2=Paul Andrews |page=221 |year=1994 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=978-0-671-88074-3 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=A history of the personal computer: the people and the technology |url=https://archive.org/details/A_History_of_the_Personal_Computer |last=Allan |first=Roy A. |page=40 |year=2001 |publisher=Allan Publishing |isbn=978-0-9689108-0-1 }}</ref> before he was hired at Microsoft in 1981, becoming the first Indian employee of the company.<ref name="LIFS">{{cite web|url=https://littleindia.com/rao-remala-microsofts-first-indian-hire/|title=Rao Remala Microsoft's First Indian Hire|last1=LIFS|date=|website=littleindia.com|publisher=Little India|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191209133150/https://littleindia.com/rao-remala-microsofts-first-indian-hire/|archive-date=2019-12-09|access-date=29 September 2016}}</ref>
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