Rao Remala was born in T. Kothapalem village Nagayalanka Mandalam in
Krishna district of
Andhra Pradesh, India, to a Kapu family. He received a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from
NIT Warangal and master's degree from
IIT Kanpur. Remala worked at
HCL before he was hired at
Microsoft in 1981, becoming the first
Indian employee of the company. ==References==