Varsha Subrahmanyam
Software Engineer at Spotify
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVarsha Subrahmanyam is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building backend and data systems, currently focused on proactive content detection at Spotify. She has deep expertise in databases and tooling from multiple years at MongoDB—contributing to widely used projects like mongodb/mongo-tools and implementing features for mongodump/mongorestore and AWS IAM refactors. Varsha also built a SQL transpiler on MongoDB’s SQL Engines team and brings production-grade experience with distributed pipelines from internships at Google and MongoDB. A CS and Statistics graduate from UIUC with a stint at Cambridge, she combines rigorous quantitative thinking with practical engineering, often tackling tricky cross-platform and serialization edge cases.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonUniversity of CambridgeHigh School, High School at Waubonsie Valley High SchoolUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Tamil
Github Skills (9)
go10
database-administration10
mongodb10
mongodb-database10
testing9
shell4
script4
sh4
scripting4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo-tools
Feb 2020 - Mar 2021
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 27 commits, 58 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Varsha primarily contributed to the `mongodb/mongo-tools` repository, focusing on the tools that interact with MongoDB. Their work involved modifying file descriptors and addressing password prompt issues on Windows. They also implemented features for the `mongodump` tool, including metadata creation for views and fixing issues related to autoIndexId. Furthermore, the user made significant contributions to the `mongorestore` utility by replaying oplog entries, skipping system collections, and handling invalid archive formats, as well as refactoring AWS IAM Authentication.
varsha804/old-website
Sep 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:42 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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