Summary
Varun Kumar is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and modernizing Microsoft 365 Outlook platform and microservices, currently focused on platform modernization at Microsoft. He brings strong multi-language expertise in Python, Haskell, PHP, C++, and Java, and a solid systems background from an IIT Jodhpur B.Tech in Computer Science. Varun has progressed through roles at Microsoft from web monitoring and platform work to designing scalable services for Outlook and Places, demonstrating consistent impact on large-scale consumer products. Early experience building chatbots and distributed coordination with Zookeeper hints at a practical grounding in both user-facing integrations and backend distributed systems. Based in Uttar Pradesh, he combines deep engineering rigor with a penchant for functional languages, suggesting a taste for elegant, reliable solutions under the hood.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur
High school, High school at Delhi Public School Mathura Road
English, Hindi