Varun Madan

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States22 yrs 1 mo experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led engineering for ksqlDB and Kafka at Confluent.
  • Increased cloud usage & revenue by 500X.
  • Executive sponsor for Women Inclusion Network.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS leader with extensive experience in cloud infrastructure and data engineering.

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Skills

Other Skills

Distributed SystemsJavaC++LinuxSoftware EngineeringSoftware Project ManagementCoachingProject DeliveryCareer DevelopmentTechnical RecruitingAgile MethodologiesRubyAmazon EC2Software DevelopmentScalability

Experience

Eventual

Head of Engineering

Aug 2025Present · 7 mos

  • Revolutionizing the way you work with data.

Onehouse

Head of Engineering

May 2023Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Building the next-generation data platform. Leading the engineering organization across the US and India.

Confluent

Senior Director Of Engineering - Streaming Platform

Nov 2019Apr 2023 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • My organization at Confluent owned engineering for ksqlDB, Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, and Stream Designer. I led the launch of Confluent Stream Designer - a product that helps build streaming data pipelines visually, from ideation to launch. Proposed and led to the development of an internal compute platform enabling users to bring their code to Confluent Cloud.
  • Grew the team from ~30 to ~120, across the US, India, and Europe.
  • Proposed and drove the launch of two greenfield projects.
  • Increased usage & revenue 10X ($XXM to $XXXM). Grew cloud usage & revenue 500X ($XXK to $XXM).
  • Revamped the engineering hiring process and introduced a focus on behavioral interviewing in addition to skill focussed interviewing.
  • Was the executive sponsor of the "Women Inclusion Network"

Oracle

2 roles

Senior Director Software Development - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Promoted

Feb 2018Nov 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • I lead engineering, product and developer outreach for Serverless @ Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
  • Building serverless compute services on top of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
  • Open source Fn project

Director of Software Development - Container Native Group

Jul 2016Jan 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Managed container service for the Oracle Bare Metal cloud.
  • Oracle Container Registry
  • Container Diagnostics cloud service based on Java Flight Recorder

Amazon web services

5 roles

Head of Engineering / Software Development Manager - Amazon WorkDocs

Promoted

Nov 2015Jul 2016 · 8 mos

Software Development Manager - Amazon WorkDocs

Feb 2015Nov 2015 · 9 mos

Software Development Manager - Amazon WorkMail

Jan 2014Feb 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Managing multiple engineering teams working on Amazon WorkMail.

Software Development Manager - Amazon EC2

Jan 2012Dec 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Manage a team of Software Engineers who work on the EC2 Instance Status feature and monitor health of EC2 Instances.
  • Manage a team of System and Operation Engineers who are responsible for improving Instance Customer Experience.

Software Engineer - Amazon EC2

Jul 2008Jan 2012 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Develop Software for EC2 Reserved & Spot Instances.

Isoft

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2005Jul 2007 · 2 yrs

Perot systems

2 roles

Technology Associate

Jan 2004Jan 2005 · 1 yr

Technology Associate - Intern

May 2002Jun 2004 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Education

Cornell University

MEng. — Computer Science

Jan 2007Jan 2008

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Bachelor in Information Systems

Jan 2000Jan 2004

Apeejay School

High School — Engineering

Jan 1985Jan 1999

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