Varun Batra
Co-Founder at SpiceGems
Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
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SeniorVarun Batra is a pragmatic technology founder and hands-on engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling web backends from a third-tier city in India to serve over 10,000 active customers worldwide. As Co-Founder and CTO of SpiceGems, he designed bespoke frameworks and high-throughput systems for Shopify apps, architecting solutions that handle thousands of hooks per second and optimizing webhook processing and queueing for 700% efficiency gains. He is fluent across systems and languages—Linux storage (Btrfs/ZFS), Bash, PHP, Node, Go, Rust—alongside modern infra like Kubernetes, Docker, Istio, and IaC, and he mentors teams to move from junior developers to team leads. A self-taught hiring and training advocate, he deliberately blends pragmatic tool choice with teaching-focused leadership and predictable work culture. He publishes technical writing on webapplicationconsultant.com and varunbatra.com, reflecting a habit of documenting hard-won operational insights.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
browser10
nodejs10
cordova10
compass10
php10
oracle10
orm10
mysql10
postgresql10
javascript10
sql10
hana10
sap-hana10
cockroachdb10
mariadb10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
VarunBatraIT/SpaceBox
Apr 2019 - Jun 2020
A dockerized SpaceVim - a fine development box inside docker
Contributions:102 commits, 6 PRs, 104 pushes in 1 year 2 months
spacevimboxdockerfinedocker-compose
VarunBatraIT/kiteapi
Mar 2020 - Jan 2021
Unofficial GO client for Kite Connect API's
Contributions:1 release, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 10 months
golangapigo-clientapi-sapi-connect
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