Varunkumar Nagarajan

CTO

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India18 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 18+ years in software engineering and leadership.
  • Expertise in building scalable distributed systems.
  • Strong background in FinTech and team management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a FinTech expert with extensive experience in distributed systems and cloud technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingDistributed SystemsWeb Technologies

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAndroidBootstrappingCCore JavaData EngineeringData StructuresFlexHTML 5HTML5JavaJava web applicationsJavaScriptObject Oriented DesignPL/SQL

About

A seasoned Software Engineer with 18+ years of industry experience building high-quality, scalable and maintainable distributed systems. An Engineering Leader with 12 years of experience in bootstrapping teams and delivering results in the FinTech (HedgeFund) space through solid leadership and execution skills. A tech enthusiast interested in distributed systems, web development and cloud technologies. Currently, I am leading a cross-functional engineering team building a large-scale distributed system. Responsible for tech architecture, budgets, roadmaps, hiring, and team governance structures of the team. Building a self-sustainable cohesive team responsible for everything from SDLC to the prod cluster management and support. Before this, I bootstrapped and led platform teams responsible for cross-cutting functions like UI/UX, platform alerting, and platform data downloads. As a blogger, I write about my interests and explorations of technology. I have written many scripts/services to make life easier on the web. I have contributed to various OSS projects. My contributions are available here -- https://github.com/varunkumar. Interests: Web technologies, Distributed systems, Cloud infrastructure, Data Engineering, Mentoring next-gen engineers

Experience

Arcesium

6 roles

Senior Vice President of Technology

Promoted

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Vice President of Technology

Promoted

May 2023Jan 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos

Associate Director Of Technology

Promoted

Jan 2019May 2023 · 4 yrs 4 mos

Cloud ComputingBootstrappingDistributed SystemsData EngineeringWeb Technologies

Engineering Manager

Sep 2017Dec 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos

Cloud ComputingBootstrappingWeb Technologies

Project Manager

Promoted

Jan 2016Aug 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

Cloud ComputingBootstrappingWeb Technologies

Project Leader

Jul 2015Dec 2015 · 5 mos

Cloud ComputingBootstrappingWeb Technologies

D. e. shaw & co.

3 roles

Project Leader

Jul 2012Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Senior Member IT

Promoted

Jan 2010Jul 2012 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Application development for Back Office operations. Automated various processes needed for month end account close and reporting.

Member IT

Jun 2008Jan 2010 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Technology support for various operations of the firm. Automate the business process and deliver the needs of the business.

Interchain solutions

Technical Analyst

Nov 2007May 2008 · 6 mos

  • Worked on a state of art Fleet management solution - FleetCheck. Its a product which will help tracking vehicles of an organization. A GPS enabled module will be attached to the vehicle and will be monitored from the FleetCheck web application. Implemented various features in the application including Live Tracking (using lightstreamer), GeoFencing, Vehicle route map, etc.

Intel corporation

Intern

May 2006Dec 2006 · 7 mos

  • Worked on massaging the input data needed for a Production Scheduling tool.

Education

PSG College of Technology

Master of Science (M.Sc.) — Software Engineering

Jan 2003Jan 2008

V. O. C. Govt. Hr. Sec School

Jan 2001Jan 2003

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