Varun Gandhi
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolVarun Gandhi is a software engineer focused on infrastructure and applied ML with 11 years of practical experience, currently working on OS team onboarding at Motional while pursuing an MS in Computer Science at UMass Amherst. He blends systems engineering with LLM post-training and retrieval-augmented generation work—recently mentored by Adobe on industry-scale LLM projects—and has hands-on experience building scalable ETL and OCR pipelines for real-world data. Varun has taught computer systems and ethics in AI, demonstrating an ability to translate complex concepts for undergraduates while maintaining active contributions to programming and problem-solving communities. His background spans cloud cost-optimization, containerized full-stack dashboards, and high-throughput data processing, with measurable impacts such as 35% cloud cost reduction and near-elimination of manual ETL work. A programming-languages enthusiast and competitive coder, he shares tools and teaching materials via GitHub and maintains a practical focus on reproducible, production-ready ML and infrastructure solutions.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass AmherstBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Mathematics at University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Github Skills (200)
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swift10
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
typesanitizer/concurrent-interner
Sep 2021 - Jul 2022
A string interner that is safe to use from multiple threads
Contributions:1 review, 9 commits, 12 PRs in 9 months
discriminated-unionsconcurrencystringiointerner
typesanitizer/m.css
Dec 2017 - Jun 2022
A no-nonsense, no-JavaScript CSS framework and Pelican theme for content-oriented websites
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 7 months
no-nonsenseno-javascriptcssjavascriptpelican-theme
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