Varun Risbud
Lead Software Engineer at The Walt Disney Company
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolVarun Risbud is a Lead Software Engineer based in San Jose with 11 years of experience building scalable cloud and enterprise systems across media and identity platforms. He has progressed from internships at CBS Interactive to senior and lead roles at Synacor and The Walt Disney Company, where he now contributes to the Hulu Ad Platform migration. Varun’s strengths span Java microservices, Kafka event processing, NoSQL datastores (Cassandra, MongoDB), and performance tuning—he once halved response time and reduced daily request load by 90% through proactive debugging. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs backend architecture with practical tooling (Splunk, ElasticSearch, AWS) and has hands-on Hadoop/Spark experience from earlier recommendation-system work. He is pragmatic about integrations, having implemented CIAM solutions with OpenID Connect/OAuth and migrated token systems without disruption. Colleagues describe him as a curious engineer who steps beyond his remit to trace systemic issues and improve cross-service reliability.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's Degree, Computer Software Engineering at San José State UniversityBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Savitribai Phule Pune University
English, Marathi, Hindi
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Github Skills (9)
zimbra10
collaboration10
mailbox10
apache-spark6
collections6
mapreduce6
hadoop6
apache6
java6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
varunrisbud/zm-mailbox
Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:18 PRs, 80 pushes, 15 branches in 4 months
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varunrisbud/EventRecommendationEngine
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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