Varun Bhanot
Director Of Engineering at Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs
Gurugram, Haryana, India
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Top SchoolVarun Bhanot is a technology leader and Director of Engineering based in Gurugram with 15+ years of experience building cloud-native, AI-enabled and fintech platforms at firms like Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs, Tata Digital, BlackRock and Fidelity. He blends hands-on systems and product thinking—shaping investment architectures, scaling engineering teams, and shipping mission-critical production services across finance and consumer tech. Varun has progressed from early application development to executive engineering roles and brief CTO tenure, demonstrating an ability to move quickly between strategy, delivery and people leadership. A lifelong learner with executive education in product management from UC Berkeley and CFA exposure, he mentors engineers and shares perspectives through public speaking and a newsletter. Not obvious from titles alone: he repeatedly steps into turnaround scenarios, aligning technical roadmaps with business outcomes under tight timeframes. Pragmatic, data-driven and customer-focused, he thrives at the intersection of AI, cloud and fintech.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Product Management - ExecEd Product Management, Product Management - ExecEd Product Management at University of California, BerkeleyCFA InstituteBE computer science, BE computer science at Maharshi Dayanand University
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Github Skills (6)
backend5
nodejs4
react4
typescript3
react-native3
microservices2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
varunbhanot/Habits
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:27 commits, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 months
habitreacttrackerreact-nativetracker-app
varunbhanot/exercism
Jun 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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