Varun Achar
Senior Director Of Engineering at Razorpay
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolVarun Achar is a senior engineering leader with 13 years of experience building high-throughput payment systems, developer platforms, and consumer services across startups and large enterprises. Currently Senior Director of Engineering at Razorpay, he leads the UPI and financial infrastructure teams responsible for innovations like UPI Turbo and TPAP-as-a-Service that power a majority of the company’s transactions. Earlier roles include being one of the first five engineers at Treebo where he shaped technology strategy and platform teams, and engineering work on a top-150 mission-critical JP Morgan system handling billions in transactions daily. He has entrepreneurial chops—founding a healthcare startup that joined VentureNursey and co-founding one of India’s early bike-taxi ventures—bringing product, fundraising, and execution experience to technical leadership. Known for blending hands-on systems design with organizational building, he focuses on transforming complex payment flows into scalable, developer-friendly infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Air Force School, Bamrauli, AllahabadBachelor of Technology Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology Information Technology at VR Siddhartha Engineering College
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Github Skills (120)
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Github contributions (5)
varunachar/maven-release
Feb 2013 - Mar 2013
Contributions:46 commits in 5 days
varunachar/dart-format-pre-commit
Jan 2019 - Jul 2019
Format Dart code with pre-commit
Contributions:3 pushes in 6 months
flutterpre-commitdartcommit
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