Summary
Aravindh Varadharaju is a Senior Staff Data Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating large-scale data platforms, currently based in San Jose and working at BILL. His background spans distributed computing, grid/virtualization early in his career and nearly a decade focused on Big Data, Hadoop, NoSQL, and data operations at companies like Shutterfly. He pairs hands-on engineering—building and troubleshooting production data systems—with operational leadership in incident, problem, change, and transition management. An MS in Computer Science from Indiana University and earlier research work on digital preservation (DPN/SEAD) show a longstanding interest in sustainable data stewardship. Colleagues describe him as a technologist who moves between systems-level thinking and pragmatic delivery, often surfacing long-term preservation and reliability trade-offs that others miss.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, 9.02/10.00, M.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, 9.02/10.00 at SRM University
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, 3.61, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, 3.61 at Indiana University Bloomington
BE, Computer Science and Engineering, 79%, BE, Computer Science and Engineering, 79% at Madurai Kamaraj University
English