Varun Arora
Founder at Stealth Startup
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolVarun Arora is a Member of Applied AI Staff in New York with 11 years of engineering experience spanning startups and high-scale consumer platforms. He has founded and scaled product teams—from a stealth startup acquired by Pace to founding-engineer work on core banking and stablecoin investments at Capital—while earlier driving growth experimentation and pricing at Lime. Varun combines deep systems and static-analysis expertise (contributions to Facebook’s Infer improving clang frontend logging and exception telemetry) with product-minded execution across payments, KYC/KYB, and rider engagement. He was selected as a Kleiner Perkins Engineering Fellow and has a history of founding and advising student ventures, reflecting strong technical leadership and entrepreneurial instincts. Known for pragmatic code that “makes things go brrrrr,” he pairs rapid prototyping with production-grade robustness. Varun holds a BS in Engineering with majors in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from Vanderbilt.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at John P. Stevens High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.) in Engineering Computer Science Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Engineering Computer Science Applied Mathematics at Vanderbilt University
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c1710
eventlog10
c-language10
static-analysis10
c1110
cprogramming-language10
software-quality9
objective-c9
javas8
java8
sorbet6
anaconda6
python6
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/infer
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
A static analyzer for Java, C, C++, and Objective-C
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:43 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Varun's contributions focused on enhancing the clang frontend of the Infer static analyzer. They added logging for attempted and completed procedure translations to improve tracking and debugging. They also implemented logging for caught exceptions, including Unimplemented, IncorrectAssumption, and SelfClassException, using the EventLogger framework. This involved modifying existing code and introducing new event types to capture detailed exception information, improving the tool's robustness and providing valuable insights during program translation.
static-analyzerobjective-ccppstatic-code-analysiscode-quality
avarun42/avarun42.github.io
Jan 2015 - Nov 2021
Contributions:69 pushes in 6 years 10 months
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