Varun Dhananjaya
Founding Engineer at Runbook
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVarun Dhananjaya is a founding engineer and seasoned software developer with eight years of experience building production systems across startups and large cloud platforms. Based in New York, he has shipped features and systems at AWS, led engineering work at Comm and Noetica, and now helps shape product and infrastructure as a founder at Runbook. His background spans backend services, API design, and frontend integrations—skills honed during internships at Optimizely and Looker where he worked on REST APIs, OpenAPI, and secure Git authentication. A Computer Science student at Claremont McKenna College, Varun pairs academic grounding with real-world engineering velocity and a knack for translating product needs into reliable, documented APIs.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Claremont McKenna CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Interlake Senior High School
English, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (73)
messaging10
terraform10
gcp10
infrastructure10
k8s10
javascript10
kubernetes-deployment10
csi10
kubernetes10
nodejs10
amazon10
react-native10
velero10
amazon-ebs10
aws10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vdhanan/aws-ebs-csi-driver
Feb 2021 - Nov 2021
CSI driver for Amazon EBS https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/
Contributions:134 pushes, 17 branches in 8 months
cost-optimizationamazonamazon-ebsamazon-awscsi-driver
vdhanan/comm
Jan 2023 - Oct 2023
Comm is the working name of this open source messaging project.
Contributions:10 pushes in 8 months
commmessaging
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