Varun Bairaboina

Director of Engineering

Stamford, Connecticut, United States12 yrs 1 mo experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in data analytics and business insights.
Proven track record in client retention strategies.
Strong leadership in cross-functional team collaboration.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on business analytics and client engagement.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business AnalysisData Analysis

Other Skills

Data AnalyticsClient EngagementRetention StrategiesBudget CreationEntity MatchingClustering EngineRisk AssessmentC++Microsoft OfficeMicrosoft ExcelPowerPointMicrosoft WordCPhotoshopJava

About

I have strong analytical and communication skills which can help me identify business issues, define project objectives, present analysis to drive business decisions, develop and measure the impact of business recommendations, work collaboratively with various teams to build solutions. Having worked on some of the risk assessment solutions, I have analysed various data sources, ideated logics in handling and manipulating the big data and generated meaningful business insights to provide various business recommendations to the clients. With my good time-management and organizational skills, I am quite effective at handling the deadlines with fool proof results.

Experience

12 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

4 yrs

Average Tenure

8 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Gartner

8 roles

Director, Research Business Analytics

Aug 2025 – Present · 9 mos

Director, GS&D Strategy and Operations

Promoted

Oct 2024 – Jul 2025 · 9 mos

Associate Director, GS&D Strategy and Operations

Sep 2022 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs

Associate Director, GS&D Strategy and Operations

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Aug 2022 · 4 mos

Manager, GS&D Strategy and Operations

Apr 2021 – Mar 2022 · 11 mos

Team Lead

Promoted

Aug 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

Senior Business Associate

Oct 2018 – Jul 2019 · 9 mos

Business Associate

Mar 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

Part of the Gartner Business Rotational Development program aimed at gaining exposure to several business functions and developing Leadership skills.
Instrumental in setting up the data analytics and insights for various Service units in Products and Services team which led to higher Client Engagement and Retention. Worked closely with the CEB team post acquisition by Gartner, conducted Time and Motion studies to improve their productivity and efficiency and led various initiatives in improving the Client Retention. Created Budgets for the teams helping them to focus and invest in the programs leading to higher Retention and Impact Assessment tools which led to increase in the Wallet Retention by 25pp and and cut down the cost of Service by ~50%

Data AnalyticsClient EngagementRetention StrategiesBudget CreationBusiness AnalysisData Analysis

Opera solutions

Business Solutions Analyst

Jul 2015 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos · Noida Area, India

Built an entity matching and Clustering Engine solution for a professional services company in United States by leveraging analytical techniques and business insights and helped mitigate Independence Risk and in improved identification of Potential affiliates of Entities.
Worked with the client to develop a risk assessment solution by evaluating the business assignments based on the characteristics of Partners, Clients, Services and Engagements. Created Portfolios, profiles and dashboards and made recommendations for the Partner Training program

Entity MatchingClustering EngineRisk AssessmentData AnalysisBusiness Analysis

Indian institute of technology, bombay

General Secretary, EESA

Jul 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr · Bombay

Looked after administrative affairs within the department
Organised department activities like freshmen orientation, department treks, trips etc
Restructured the policy of Summer Projects Allocation Scheme(SPAS) to facilitate its functioning in coordination with 50 professors to float projects which led to a successful increase in the undergraduate student participation and completion of projects

University of ottawa

Research Intern

May 2014 – Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Ottawa, Canada Area

Worked on Microsoft Kinect Sensor to capture colour, depth images and collect 3D data. Extracted the objects individually from indoor backgrounds by applying image processing methods. A novel approach based on watershed segmentation is applied to the segmentation and the task of object extraction.