Summary
Varun Panigrahy is a Software Engineer III with eight years of experience building high-performance distributed systems and data platforms, currently working on Delta Lake at Google Cloud Dataproc. He has driven production-grade improvements at Microsoft—enhancing Spark SQL optimizers, AQE, and automating VHD releases—and implemented Raft-based high-availability for YARN ResourceManager as an intern. His background spans cloud, big data, and systems performance tuning, including a 25% CPU reduction in Juniper’s object-monitoring daemon by eliminating expensive serialization. Trained at IIT Roorkee and UMass Amherst, Varun blends low-level engineering instincts with cloud-native delivery practices and a demonstrated knack for turning complex distributed problems into pragmatic, deployable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil