Varun Kumthekar
Senior Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolVarun Kumthekar is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Jose with eight years of experience building performance-focused software for ML and graphics workloads. He currently contributes to Walmart’s personalization platform, bringing prior expertise from Intel where he optimized ML shader pipelines, implemented UMD driver plugins, and built cross-framework benchmarking tools. His background blends low-level GPU/driver work (DirectML, Metal, OpenCL) with higher-level tooling and CI/CD automation, enabling measurable performance improvements across frameworks like CoreML, OpenVINO and ONNX Runtime. Notably, he has delivered practical tooling—from unified model converters to GUI-based analysis utilities—that bridge research prototypes and production drivers. Varun holds a Master’s in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech and combines systems-level rigor with a pragmatic focus on deployable performance.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Engineering, Masters Computer Engineering at Virginia TechBachelor of Technology - BTech Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Instrumentation and Control Engineering at COEP Technological University
English, Hindi, Marathi, Japanese
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Github Skills (3)
gestures7
apache-spark6
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
varunkumthekar/ASL-Fingerspelling
Dec 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
varunkumthekar/varunkumthekar.github.io
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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