Varun Venkatesan
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVarun Venkatesan is a software engineer with over a decade of experience building cloud-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, and performance tooling for platforms like Azure and Intel. He designs and implements orchestration, container, networking, and observability stacks—leveraging Kubernetes, Service Fabric, Prometheus/Grafana, Go, gRPC and NoSQL—to enable planet-scale AI training and edge-to-cloud workloads. His background in low-level optimization and profilers includes contributing .NET Core runtime optimizations and VTune profiling features, giving him a rare combination of systems performance expertise and cloud-native engineering. Based in Redmond, he repeatedly bridges hardware-aware optimizations with high-level service delivery, enabling efficient deployment and telemetry for emerging AI platforms.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Stanes Higher Secondary SchoolMaster of Science (MS), Computer Engineering, 3.96, Master of Science (MS), Computer Engineering, 3.96 at Iowa State UniversityBachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, First Class with Distinction, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, First Class with Distinction at Coimbatore Institute of Technology
English, Tamil, Telugu
Github Skills (47)
garbage-collector10
primitive10
low-level10
coreclr10
xamarin10
cil10
dotnet10
linux10
cross-platform10
collector10
desktop10
iot10
garbage10
dotnet-core10
azure10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vkvenkat/coreclr
Feb 2019 - May 2019
CoreCLR is the runtime for .NET Core. It includes the garbage collector, JIT compiler, primitive data types and low-level classes.
Contributions:4 PRs, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
dotnetjitruntimedata-typesprimitive
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