Govind Varshney
Founder And CEO at Lalitech
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolGovind Varshney is a founder and CEO based in San Francisco with two decades of engineering experience building high-impact products at Microsoft, Skype, and Symphony as well as founding Lalitech to help startups and enterprises ship offshore product development cost-effectively. He has led teams that drove Skype monetization north of $100M and helped Symphony cross a $1B valuation through front-end reinvention, while owning patents in browser security and navigation. Comfortable from low-level browser security work to modern cloud-native stacks (React, Node, AWS/Azure), he blends hands-on engineering with hiring and organizational design to build resilient teams from scratch. Govind has a history of successful early-stage technical contributions—his Winamp plugin hit half a million downloads—and he continues to advise and angel-invest in startups. An IIT Kharagpur alumnus and Gold Star recipient at Microsoft, he’s known for leading by example, introducing Agile/Kanban practices, and translating complex product needs into pragmatic technical roadmaps. Reach out to him for founder-level technical strategy, architecture, and go-to-market engineering support.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
English, Sanskrit, Hindi, French
Github Skills (17)
ios9
windows9
android9
app-platform9
macos9
cross-platform8
package-json6
runner5
npm-scripts5
npm4
cli4
workspaces3
autosuggest3
react3
yarn-workspaces2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
govindvarshney/terraform-aws-cloudfront-s3-cdn
May 2019 - May 2020
Terraform module to easily provision CloudFront CDN backed by an S3 origin
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
terraform-modulesprovisioncloudfrontbackedterraform
SymphonyOSF/SymphonyElectron
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
A desktop client for the Symphony Collaboration Platform built using Electron
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
symphonyelectronjavascriptcollaborationcollaboration-platform
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