Varun Murthy
Director Of Engineering at Luma Optics, Inc.
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVarun Murthy is a Director of Engineering based in Atlanta with 11 years of experience building full-stack products and leading cross-functional teams from early engineering to scale. He combines startup grit—co-founding and scaling a16z-backed Keep Financial to 300 B2B customers—with enterprise product leadership at VMware where he drove large SaaS releases, identity management, and performance improvements. Varun has a proven track record shipping growth-focused consumer platforms (built a product to 110K users with rapid weekly growth) and designing fintech payroll and regulatory-compliant compensation products that replaced equity in non-tech industries. Currently he is architecting software for AIOps and observability in optical fabric reliability for AI datacenters, blending systems engineering with product strategy. Trained as an electrical and computer engineer at Georgia Tech, he brings a hands-on, API-first engineering background and a knack for turning compliance and operational constraints into marketable features. An operator who still codes, Varun often bridges layers others leave behind—what he jokes are “layers 8 and 9”—to ensure technology, people, and business align.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Electrical and Computer Engineering, Masters Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyB.E. Electronics and Communication, B.E. Electronics and Communication at RV College Of Engineering
English, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu
Github Skills (7)
python9
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swift9
shell9
powershell9
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
varunmurthy/varunmurthy.github.io
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
varunmurthy/varun-blog
May 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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