Chai Varier
Software Engineer at YouTube
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChai Varier is a software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable full-stack systems, currently shaping YouTube Commerce's billing and checkout platform that supports 2B+ MAUs and drives over $14B in annual revenue. He designed and launched a modern Checkout API that measurably improved reliability, engineer velocity, and monetization metrics across iOS and web, and previously built petabyte-scale Android telemetry libraries and pipelines for Google's core apps. A University of Waterloo Software Engineering graduate, he has deep build-systems and mobile expertise from co-ops and roles at Snap, Yahoo, and others, including significant Bazel contributions and CI/build optimizations that cut build times and CI cost. Outside of engineering he’s an active SF Bay Area musician with 600k+ streams, bringing a creative, performance-minded approach to product and systems design.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
IBMYP, Secondary School - IB Program (Enriched), IBMYP, Secondary School - IB Program (Enriched) at Lakeside AcademyDEC (CEGEP), First Choice Pure and Applied Science, DEC (CEGEP), First Choice Pure and Applied Science at Dawson CollegeBSE, Honours Software Engineering, BSE, Honours Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (57)
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partial-differential-equations10
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cgo10
momentum10
orthogonal10
theory9
macros9
stripe9
build-system9
physics9
bazel9
starlark9
golang9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Cvarier/fftAudioAnalyzer
Jun 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
Cvarier/Music-Theory
Sep 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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