Varun Bhatia

VP of Engineering

Seattle, Washington, United States16 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 17+ years of diverse technology leadership experience.
  • Expert in building products from scratch and team management.
  • Proven track record in fraud detection and risk management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS technology leader with extensive experience in product development and risk management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Risk & Fraud ManagementReal-time DetectionMachine LearningSaas DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentAuthentication Systems

Other Skills

AWSAgile ImplementationAmazon EMRApache SparkBig DataElasticsearchJavaScriptMongoDBMySQLPHPPeople ManagementProduct DevelopmentRabbitMQRedisSQL

About

Technology Leader with 17+ years of work experience wearing different hats. Skillset includes building products from scratch, Tech Management, agile implementation, System design, People Management. In my career have had a chance to build teams & products in varied domains - Social Networking, Messaging, Chatbots, IoT, Big Data & ML, Fintech, Edutech and latest being Fraud detection. Experienced in driving products across distributed engineering teams and collaborating with a broad range of stakeholders. Tech stack : , Python/PHP/Springboot , Mysql, Big Data, Apache Spark, Redis, ES, MongoDB, REST, GraphQL, RabbitMQ, AWS.

Experience

Expedia group

3 roles

Senior Engineering Manager - Data Engineering

May 2023Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Data Engineering

Senior Software Engineering Manager - Fraud And Risk Analyst Tools Platform

May 2021Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Leading team to drive technology solutions for Dispute & Chargeback processing and Case management solutions to support our global fraud operations team.

Senior Software Engineering Manager - Fraud and Risk Real Time Detection Platform

Nov 2019Apr 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • As an Engineering Manager in Risk & Fraud team , me and my teams charter is to Protect Expedia & its brands from Fraudulent activities.
  • Led the Real Time Detection Platform team responsible for Screening of Real time bookings for Fraud and Risk.
  • We protect Expedia group from multiple fraud areas like Fraud Credit card usage, Account takeover Risk, Supplier Fraud, Sanctioned individuals. We deploy ML models and manual review tools to ensure compliance.
  • Responsibilities include
  • 1.) Responsible for multiple components and domains within Risk & Fraud team.
  • 2.) Aligning team to tasks and helping them execute, while ensuring prioritisation follows the allocation for different buckets( Strategic, Tactical, Program, Operations)
  • 3.) Ensure Ops excellence for the team, conducting Ops reviews, asking right questions and striving for Excellence within team.
  • 4.) As a People Manager, work with my reports to help them achieve their career goals.
  • 5.) Working with different brands within Expedia, ensuring there is no coverage gap and helping them onboard for Fraud and Sanctions screening.
  • Tech Stack - Springboot, Mongo, Elastisearch, Redis, AWS, Splunk, SQL, RabbitMQ.
SpringbootMongoDBElasticsearchRedisAWSSQL+3

Indmoney.com

CoFounder and Director Of Engineering

Jul 2018Jun 2019 · 11 mos · Gurgaon

  • IndMoney is a full fledged financial product that provides end to end solutions for a HNI family/ individuals.
  • From Advanced analytics, to ML driven suggestions for rebalancing portfolio to goal driven investing, to end to end Tax analytics. It’s a full stack solution for all of one’s financial needs. Same can be checked out at https://indmoney.in.
  • As a Co Founder, set up the core tech team and built the product from scratch.
  • Developed multiple modules along with mentoring team and providing inputs related to System Architecture, scaling the product, identifying potential bottlenecks.
  • Set up tech charter for the team to align with once the MVP was out. This included categorising tasks in different buckets and ensuring task prioritisation happened for tasks in different buckets. Helping team in designing the system keeping scale in mind and ensuring team was motivated to perform.

Aspiring minds

Engineering Manager

Nov 2017Jun 2018 · 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Led B2C and Assessment teams as an Engineering leader.
  • One point contact for different teams including Management , Product, Sales, Customer Support etc.
  • Responsibilities included
  • 1.) Understanding product requirements & designing the system Architecture.
  • 2.) Helping team in identifying Tech to use according to use-case.
  • 3.) Working with team on system architecture designs, Creating Specs for different components.
  • 4.) Assigning work within team & tracking the same in sprint cycles ensuring spread in different categories( Product, Tech, Tactical)
  • 5.) Perform code reviews, ensure work delivered is high on quality.
  • 6) Help team set up on call cadence , ensuring potential bottlenecks are prioritised and fixed strategically.

Simpli5d technologies

Head Of Engineering

Jan 2017Oct 2017 · 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Led team of developers ( Front end , Big data & Data Scientist), system admins and QA.
  • We worked on building a SaaS based Machine Learning algorithm based system. This SaaS based solution would capture multiple data points when a user would visit a customer's Website and then predict if the visitor is a Bot or Human.
  • Technologies used include - Big Data using Apache Spark, Amazon EMR.
  • Also took care of existing products in Digital Advertising using Captcha's , Programmatic Advertising etc.

Nimbuzz messenger

6 roles

Software Architect - Octoconnect

Promoted

Dec 2015Dec 2016 · 1 yr

  • Octoconnect is a ambitious project to make the simple router a 'Smart Router'.
  • Octoconnect offers a Business in a box for SMB's to make their Internet connection into a tool with a good ROI.
  • Leading a team of 3 developers working on technologies related to AAA ( Authentication,Accounting , Authorization), Developing Frontend products like captive portals, Business Owner tools and backend for router - WLC( Wireless Lan Controller) with Remote Activation, healthcheck, OTA firmware upgrades, OTA config push etc.
  • Major Technologies used - PHP, JS (Jquery/ Bootstrap), Mysql, Apache2, Redis/Memcache, Freeradius, Node.js
Big DataApache SparkAmazon EMRMachine LearningSaaS Development

Software Architect - Freebux

Sep 2015Feb 2016 · 5 mos

  • Freebux is a incent download based app where users get free talktime in return for trying out new exciting android Apps. Everyday users get new apps to try out and in return they get credits in their Wallet which can be used to recharge their mobile numbers.
  • Worked on the backend for Freebux. Built a rest interface which takes care of user verification and onboarding, new offers based on users location and app downloads.
  • Integrated with Appsflyer, Hasoffers , mobile verification using Sinch Flash calls, Android GCM, mobile recharge APi's.

Software Architect

Apr 2015Dec 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Responsible for design and implementation of all Nimbuzz Frontend and backend Web products. Also responsible for managing the Nimbuzz Web team. Working on multiple products related to Virtual currency, Wallets , Chat bots , Websites etc.
PHPJavaScriptMySQLRedisBackend DevelopmentAuthentication Systems

Product Manager - Masque

Jun 2014Mar 2015 · 9 mos

  • Visualized the new app idea. Managed the workflow of the application working with server side team, design team and client teams( Android, iPhone and Windows phone). Taking care of all sprints planning and their execution, clearing dependencies between teams, writing user stories and explaining the same to design, server and client teams.

Team Lead - Web

Jan 2012Mar 2015 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Responsible for design and implementation of all Nimbuzz Frontend and backend Web products. Also responsible for managing the Nimbuzz Web team.

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2010Dec 2011 · 1 yr

  • Currently working on making Nimbuzz platform more social.

Ibibo web pvt. ltd

Software Engineer

Jul 2008Nov 2010 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Engineer having 2 years of experience in mobile internet. Have a good expertise in social network, social gaming, mobile operator billing integrated applications, Open source technologies ( LAMP )

Education

D. Y. Patil Pratishthans D.Y. Patil College of Engineering ,Pune

B.E — Computers

Jan 2004Jan 2008

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