Varun Venkatesh
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolVarun Venkatesh is a software engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native, event-driven services and distributed systems, holding an MS in Computer Science from USC. He has contributed to production platforms at Microsoft and Sentry—improving back-end reliability and maintainability for widely used tooling like Sentry’s error-tracking platform—and recently focused on TypeScript (fp-ts), AWS, and MySQL at OnePay. Varun blends functional programming with pragmatic engineering to deliver scalable services, mentors peers, and pursues continuous learning through personal Python and ML projects. Based in Los Angeles, he brings a track record of shipping robust backend features and thoughtful refactors that reduce duplication and improve observability.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Technology, Computer Science, 9.48/10, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, 9.48/10 at PES University
Github Skills (14)
error-detection10
python10
error-log10
django10
api-design9
database9
integration-testing9
admin9
database-administration9
api9
apim9
databases9
postgresql8
cicd7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:61 reviews, 192 commits, 76 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Varun primarily worked on improving the Sentry platform's back-end functionality, specifically focusing on fixing issues related to deploy notifications and commit order. The user also refactored code by moving the JSON blobs for Microsoft Teams integration messages to a message builder hierarchy, enhancing maintainability and reducing code duplication. Their contributions include modifying code in Python and Django, as well as updating existing test cases, demonstrating their involvement in the core functionality of the error tracking and performance monitoring platform. They also added tenant_id to integration.metadata on install, to identify what tenant each `team` falls under.
monitorpythonsentrydjangoerror-monitoring
vinayak-awanti/pycodesearch
Sep 2018 - Sep 2021
Code Search in large codebase
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 3 years
search-enginecodebasecode-search
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