Varun Midakanatti is a Software Development Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable web applications and critical distributed services, currently designing regionalization platforms for Amazon Retail. He holds an MS in Computer Science from USC (3.95 GPA) and combines strong academic foundations with hands-on systems work—from optimizing Java data structures to reducing memory and latency in geo-hierarchy snapshots. Varun has broad full‑stack experience (React, Node.js, Electron) and a history of improving operational health through deployment pipelines, metrics-driven optimizations, and frugal resource engineering. His background includes reverse-engineering IoT devices, enterprise UI development for HPE storage analytics, and modernizing legacy lab tooling—demonstrating an ability to move between low-level performance problems and product-facing features. Based in Seattle, he brings a pragmatic balance of engineering rigor and product impact across both research and production environments.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.95/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.95/4.0 at University of Southern California
Bachelor of Engineering, Information Science/Studies, 9.26/10.0, Bachelor of Engineering, Information Science/Studies, 9.26/10.0 at Sri Jayachamarajendra College Of Engineering
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Varun Midakanatti - Software Development Engineer at Amazon