Varun Maini

VP of Engineering

New Delhi, Delhi, India17 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

16 years in software engineering and product development.
Proven track record in leading large engineering teams.
Expertise in cloud services and data analytics.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Engineering Leader with extensive experience in cloud and data analytics.

Contact

varun.maini84@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipCloud ComputingProject ManagementData AnalyticsSoftware DevelopmentTeam LeadershipWeb Development

Other Skills

People ManagementDistributed SystemsAWSGCPAzureCustomer Lifecycle ManagementConnector DevelopmentProduct ManagementRepository ManagementAutomationApache KafkaTeam ManagementTeam MentorshipREST APIsApplication Development

About

Engineering manager & team leader with 16 years of product development, software engineering & operations experience. A people person who is passionate about growing and nurturing his team, while delivering complex software applications efficiently. Experience in both cloud & on-premise services. Love to code Android apps in my free time and watch football.

Experience

17 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Confluent

Senior Engineering Manager

Nov 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

Leading a team of 20+ engineers across three strategic charters, driving Confluent’s cloud and connector ecosystem.
Marketplaces:
Bridging Confluent Cloud with AWS, GCP & Azure - overseeing discovery, signup & renewals. Managing customer lifecycles & ensuring precise usage reporting.
Driving nearly 70% of Confluent Cloud deals, closing them 25% faster than direct sales.
Achieved an 80% reduction in on-call & escalation volume through process improvements and automation.
Standard Connectors:
Building and maintaining a broad range of connectors, expanding coverage & accelerating product request execution.
Owning key connector families like Salesforce, AWS etc
Improving release throughput, enabling faster connector development.
Consistently reducing field backlog, enhancing customer satisfaction.
Confluent Hub:
Managing https://www.confluent.io/hub/ - the trusted repository for Confluent & Partner connectors.
Building a publisher portal to streamline partner developer experience.
Developing an automation suite for rapid artifact validation and publication.
Misc:
Leading India’s Incident Commander charter program.
Serving as an Experience Ambassador for Delhi-NCR, organizing employee engagement and CSR activities.

People ManagementEngineering LeadershipCloud ComputingProject ManagementDistributed Systems

Sumo logic

Engineering Manager

Oct 2017 – Nov 2021 · 4 yrs 1 mo

A cloud native, SaaS data analytics platform that provides operational, security & business intelligence to users. Processing petabytes of log, metrics & trace data per day to provide real time alerting, dashboards & analytics.
Leading development & operations for the data ingest cloud services & installed agent. Managing a 9-member team (Backend & Frontend). Driving project planning & execution, mentoring & growing my team, streamlining customer escalations & sales request.
Part of People-experience team & Change Management Board.
Tech stack: AWS technologies – EC2, S3, Aurora RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, ELBs. Apache Kafka with Avro encoding.

AWSApache KafkaData AnalyticsTeam ManagementCloud Computing

Adobe

Computer Scientist 2

May 2009 – Oct 2017 · 8 yrs 5 mos

Adobe Photoshop Mix
A mini version of Adobe Photoshop on desktop. Providing ability to work with multiple images in a layered manner. Allowing users to cut-out and combine images, change colours and enhance photos anytime, anywhere. The application is constantly listed as one of the top app in Photography segment of Google Play Store.
Lead the development effort and mentored a team of 5 Devs and 2 QA members. Showcased the application at Google I/O 2016. For my work and mentorship, have been twice nominated by peers for Adobe’s biggest award – Adobe Founder’s Award.
Adobe Air
Adobe’s AIR application, provided runtime for developers to build apps in a platform agnostic manner. While now defunct, the app was extremely widely used with over 200M downloads.
Was the single developer responsible for the entire games module. Designed REST APIs providing featured & recommended games. Displayed the same in the app and in-widgets. Revamped app design to reduce AWS server cost, was recognised with a Spot Award and nominated for Outstanding Young Engineer for the same.
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Adobe Acrobat Reader is the free, trusted leader for reliably viewing, annotating, and signing PDFs. The ubiquitous software is the one stop solution for all PDF related functionalities. Installed by over 500M users.
Part of the development team, worked on creating the initial framework & JNI architecture. Implemented key features like text search, bookmarks and the file browser functionality.

Software DevelopmentTeam MentorshipREST APIsApplication DevelopmentTeam Leadership

Versata

Technical Analyst

Jul 2008 – May 2009 · 10 mos

Next Generation Brand Sites
A new website for automobile-based customers like Ford & General Motors.
Platform that is Multi-layered, REST & JSON based, optimised for search engines & Incorporated with metrics tracking to analyse the site’s traffic flow.
Part of development team, worked on both back-end and UI. Implemented the entire metrics tracking system.

Web DevelopmentMetrics TrackingREST APIsData Analytics