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Varun Purohit

Engineering Manager

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands9 yrs 2 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in engineering leadership.
  • Expertise in backend and platform engineering.
  • Strong focus on developer experience and team management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend and Platform Engineering expert with strong leadership in SaaS environments.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipTeam LeadershipBackend EngineeringJavaPlatform EngineeringGoPythonNode.jsFrontend EngineeringMean Stack

Other Skills

Amazon KinesisAmazon Web Services (AWS)AngularJSDatadogDjangoElastic Stack (ELK)Engineering ManagementGo (Programming Language)Goal SettingHadoopKubernetesLeadershipMongoDBMySQLPeople Management

About

Engineering leader with a focus on developer experience. Background in platform and backend engineering, with experience spanning startups to large-scale organisations.

Experience

Booking.com

Software Engineering Manager

Jul 2023Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

  • Developer Experience - Build and Deploy

Glovo

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Oct 2021Jun 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

  • Retail team
  • Managed a customer facing team of eight engineers across iOS, web, android and backend
  • Carved out this team from my previous one and built it from scratch, initially taking on the team lead role before transitioning to Engineering Management
  • Responsible for the performance, development and career plan for the engineers in the team
  • Led team OKR planning, vision and strategy mapping with cluster and company OKRs
Goal SettingStakeholder ManagementPerformance ManagementPeople ManagementTeam LeadershipEngineering Leadership

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2021Sep 2021 · 8 mos · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

  • Product and Cart team
  • Started leading the team’s backend from when it was split from my previous team Shopping Experience
  • Worked on product-stats micro-service which is responsible for top-sellers calculation
  • Worked on product features such as backend-driven store view and top sellers, using BFF (Backend for Frontend) constructs
  • Shopping Experience team
  • Executed messaging queue re-architecture
  • Worked on backend driven store-view BFF
Amazon Web Services (AWS)JavaBackend Engineering

Flipkart

Software Development Engineer II

Apr 2019Dec 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Core Infrastructure/ Platform Engineering
  • Member of compute-core team which is the foundation of Flipkart Cloud Platform, responsible to schedule and manage lifecycle of vm/contianers over the data-centre motheships
  • Owner and point of contact for vm/container UX-lifecycle flows
  • Observability of vm-lifecycle operations: introduced visibility across the stack, defined and decreased P0 metrics
  • Re-architecture of communication between underlying systems by introducing event-driven infrastructure. Drove this project along-with mentoring junior team members
  • Worked on auto-balancing flows among the data center capacity which ensures availability of capacity for the customers
  • Helped making Flipkart payments gateway PCI-DSS complaint by making a caged infrastructure
  • Worked on E2E tests infra for critical flows to increase reliability
Go (Programming Language)MySQLRabbitMQdockerKubernetesPlatform Engineering+1

Dunzo.in

Software Engineer

Apr 2018Mar 2019 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Home, Offers and Promotions
  • Improved,scaled and redesigned the landing work-flow
  • Separated out core user task creation as a micro-service
  • Complete ownership of offers-promotions and location services
  • Shared ownership of pre-order flow
  • Worked on end to end client-data-backend pipeline for the user app
  • Led and coordinated sprints and various projects along-with mentoring junior team members
RabbitMQAmazon Web Services (AWS)PostgreSQLRedisDjangoPython (Programming Language)+2

Crowdfire

Software Engineer

Aug 2017Mar 2018 · 7 mos · Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Tribe Publish
  • Product features:
  • Integration of video Apis of Facebook and Twitter
  • Product engineering:
  • Contributed to best time publish algorithm for different social media platforms,
  • Conversion of appEnginequeues to in-house Redis based solution
nodejsRedisBackend EngineeringNode.js

Citicorp services india limited

2 roles

Software Engineer

Jul 2016Jul 2017 · 1 yr · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Institutional Clients Group
  • Cash Securities - Capital Markets Operations Technology
  • Team functionalities - validate and send settlement instructions to clearing houses
  • Spring-Boot, Angularjs, Jenkins, Micro-services
  • PoC's on Hadoop, Elasticsearch
Elastic Stack (ELK)JavaHadoopBackend Engineering

Summer Intern

Jun 2015Jul 2015 · 1 mo · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Cash Securities - Capital Markets Operations Technology
  • Team functionalities - handle stock/cash position management and depot management
nodejsexpressjsMongoDBMean StackAngularJSFrontend Engineering

Xplanck

Data Science Intern

Dec 2014Feb 2015 · 2 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

  • R programming for Geo Analytics
  • Algorithm Design and implementation for Predictive Modelling
  • Various location predictions after analysis on a latitide longitude stream

Kuka

Summer Intern

Jun 2014Jul 2014 · 1 mo · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Programming and operation of KUKA industrial robot (KR-210)
  • PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) using Siemens LOGO!
  • Pneumatic adjustments
  • Simulations on Siemens Robcad

Education

Delhi College of Engineering

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) — Computer Software Engineering

Jan 2012Jan 2016

DAV Schools Network

Jan 1999Jan 2012

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