Varun Bhatia
Consultant, Technology Strategy
Tokyo, India
Summary
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Top SchoolVarun Bhatia is a technology strategy consultant with 9 years of experience helping fintechs scale through cloud-native architectures, containerization, and microservices. He led Rakuten’s fintech transformation from monoliths to distributed systems, driving 2.1x growth and a 33% opex reduction while managing a fully Japanese division and earning a Rakuten Award for operational kaizen. Now at Accenture Strategy & Consulting, he combines hands-on system design with product-led roadmaps to modernize regulated businesses and shift teams from waterfall to agile delivery. An MBA in Business Leadership complements his engineering background, enabling him to translate technical choices into measurable business outcomes. Outside work he brings a pragmatic, developer-friendly sensibility—aptly summed up in his GitHub persona as “@blue-pepper’s best friend.”
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering, 3.53/4.00, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering, 3.53/4.00 at SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Leadership, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Leadership at Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode
Japanese, English
Github Skills (9)
json-api10
code-runner8
nodejs8
json8
socket-io8
js7
html6
websocket6
javascript4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
varbha/batarang
Jan 2017 - Aug 2020
websocket based DIRT coding collaborator
Contributions:37 commits, 10 PRs, 34 pushes in 3 years 6 months
websocketcss3jsjsonjson-api
varbha/bbcopy
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
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