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Varun Sharma

Software Engineer

New York City, New York, United States16 yrs 2 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in large scale and distributed systems.
  • Led core infrastructure projects at Pinterest.
  • Developed automated ad targeting algorithms at Google.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in large scale systems.

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Other Skills

Distributed SystemsInformation RetrievalMapReduceJavaC++Machine LearningData StructuresAlgorithmsSoftware EngineeringMobile ApplicationsDatabasesData MiningScalabilityHadoopJavaScript

About

Software Engineer with a keen interest in large scale systems, distributed systems, infrastructure and recommendation/search systems. Specialties: large scale systems/distributed systems/infrastructure

Experience

16 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 3 mos
Current Experience

Meta

Software Engineer

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 3 mos

Paxos

Software Engineer

Sep 2023Jun 2024 · 9 mos

Airbnb

Software Engineer

Jul 2017Dec 2022 · 5 yrs 5 mos

Google [x]

Staff Software Engineer

May 2016Jun 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Self driving cars

Pinterest

Software Engineer

Oct 2012Apr 2016 · 3 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Led several projects on core infrastructure such as
  • migrating pinterest's feed infrastructure on top of HBase
  • hardening HBase for online serving
  • crawl pipelines
  • large scale static data serving
  • low latency retrieval using rocksdb
  • Gave 6 external tech talks, open sourced 1 project and authored two blog posts.

Google

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2008Sep 2012 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Mountain View, California

  • Display Campaign Optimizer (Mar 2010-present)
  • Developing automated ad targeting for Display Campaign Optimizer
  • Click/Conversion predictions in core serving
  • Mobile Search (Jul 2008-Mar 2010)
  • Developed user interface for Google Images/Image Search for iphone/android
  • Computer Vision (20 % project)
  • Developed a fast Image Similarity algorithm for Google Images

Yahoo inc

Software Engineering Intern

May 2007Jul 2007 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Yahoo Research
  • Developed algorithms around Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) for extracting price, title, description from product web pages

Cornell university

Software Engineering Intern

May 2006Jul 2006 · 2 mos · Tompkins County, New York, United States

  • Cayuga - Stateful Pub/Sub system
  • Implemented dynamic indexing of predicates speeding up query processing of stock streams by upto 3 times.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

BTech — Computer Science & Engineering

Jan 2004Jan 2008

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