Summary
Varun Shankar is a Staff Engineer based in Bengaluru with over a decade of hands-on experience building web-scale systems, specializing in backend development, DevOps, and data-intensive application design. He brings strong expertise in Python and Golang, pragmatic OO design, and architecting AWS cloud solutions to solve high-throughput, reliable system challenges. A long tenure across CloudMagic and Nutanix reflects progression from senior developer to technical architect and staff-level engineering, showing both deep implementation skills and architectural leadership. He is particularly comfortable translating complex data and operational requirements into scalable, maintainable services—often favoring pragmatic engineering trade-offs over theoretical purity.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Loyola High School Patna
B.E., Computer Sc. & Engg., B.E., Computer Sc. & Engg. at Chandigarh College of Engineering & Technology(Panjab Univ.)
Hindi, English