Varun Varshney
Senior Software Engineer at Qualtrics
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVarun Varshney is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and maintaining scalable Java-based microservices and search systems across enterprises like Qualtrics, Yahoo, and Cerner. He balances hands-on engineering—refactoring Elasticsearch clusters for 20% faster searches, upgrading platforms to Java 11/Spring Boot 2, and owning weekly REST service releases—with automation and ops work including Chef, Docker, and Elasticsearch troubleshooting. His background in computer vision and ML from a K‑State master’s thesis informs pragmatic data-driven solutions, exemplified by a Python/Tesseract OCR proof-of-concept he developed and showcased internally. At Yahoo he reduced serialization size and improved compatibility for S3 storage, and at Cerner he secured services with 2‑way SSL and embedded auth flows. Varun prioritizes learning new languages and design patterns and aims to take greater influence on architectural decisions while mentoring technically strong teams. Based in Salt Lake City, he brings a rare blend of research experience and production-hardened delivery across backend, search, and automation domains.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Jaypee Institute of Information technologyMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Kansas State University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (2)
android-application4
android2
Github contributions (5)
downingstreet/PCS
Jun 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:24 commits in 18 days
shipsandroid-applicationandroid
downingstreet/FaceAlign
May 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 months
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