Gaya Varadarajan
Senior Engineering Manager - Search Experiences at eBay
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGaya Varadarajan is a seasoned engineering leader with 15+ years building highly available, low-latency distributed systems and customer-facing search experiences for companies like eBay, Netflix, Amazon Lab126, Zynga, and IGN. Currently Senior Engineering Manager for Search Experiences at eBay, she combines full-stack fluency—from designing backend platforms and routing tiers that proxy tens of billions of requests to crafting front-end interfaces used by millions—with a product-minded, execution-driven approach. Her background leading Netflix’s edge routing and search domains demonstrates deep systems and infra expertise coupled with strong cross-functional partnerships and mentoring skills. She blends academic rigor in data-driven prognostics from her ASU research with practical product engineering, enabling pragmatic solutions for scale and resilience. Notably, she has transitioned across entertainment, retail, and device teams, bringing an uncommon mix of edge networking, search, and consumer UX engineering to large-scale production systems.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityAnna University, Chennai
Github Skills (8)
golang10
monitoring10
gateway10
dynamic-routing10
api-gateway10
security10
kubernetes9
resiliency8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
Netflix/zuul
May 2018 - Sep 2019
Zuul is a gateway service that provides dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, security, and more.
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 4 months
api-gatewaygolangsecurityresiliencygateway-service
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