Summary
Varun Hegde is a Principal Member of Technical Staff based in Seattle with eight years of hands-on experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer-facing systems. At Oracle he’s worked across identity and access management and is now focused on AI infrastructure for the Stargate project, combining practical engineering with product-driven outcomes. He favors simplicity and measurable results—“talk is cheap, show something that works”—and applies that philosophy across distributed systems, Kubernetes monitoring, and scalable backend services. His background spans full-stack product work, from React-driven UI frameworks and mobile apps to backend services, search, and realtime systems, plus research on compiler tooling for PGAS languages. Known for prioritizing hours of focused experience over titles, he blends academic rigor from Stony Brook with startup pragmatism and measurable optimizations in production environments.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Information Technology at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Stony Brook University
Kannada, English