Varun Agarwal

Senior Software Engineer

Washington, DC, United States5 yrs 11 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Proven expertise in full-stack development.
  • Significant contributions to revenue generation in AdTech.
  • Strong background in financial technology solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Full Stack Developer with a strong focus on Fintech and AdTech solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavaMachine LearningReactSpring Boot

Other Skills

SQLReact.jsMicroservicesA/B TestingData AnalysisReact-ReduxConcurrencyKafkaC++HTMLCSSWeb ApplicationsMultithreadingJava FrameworksApplication Security

About

I am a MSCS graduate from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Before joining GT, I gained 3 years of professional experience at JP Morgan Chase & Co., where I started as a Software Engineer-I then SE II, and then as Associate Software Engineer. My role involved using technology to solve complex problems in the domain of finance. I worked as a Full Stack developer working majorly on - Java and SpringBoot based backend, React Redux based frontend and Oracle, DB2 based database applications, all deployed on a private cloud based on PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry). Other technologies involved: Python, Sybase, SQL, JavaScript, Kafka, Jenkins CI/CD, IBM MQ, Splunk.

Experience

5 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
3 mos
Current Experience

Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2026Present · 3 mos

Yahoo

Software Engineer II

Feb 2023Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • ◦Led the design and implementation of dynamic fees for predictive segments, estimated to generate additional 800k$ per year with +10% impressions, +2% conversions.
  • ◦ Helped research finalize model file format, and implementing the infrastructure and pipeline for model deployments.
  • ◦ Improved advertiser quarterly report performance from 3mins to 15s.
  • ◦ Implemented weighted-CPA leading to revenue retention of 25M$ and additional advertiser spend of 300k$
  • ◦ Developed the Yahoo Blueprint platform for Yahoo Ads Demand-Side Platform (DSP) to integrate advanced ML models.
  • ◦ Built backend infrastructure, achieving a 30–50% increase in impressions while reducing CPx.
  • ◦ Accelerated development speed by 30% using Cursor auto code generation
  • ◦ Designed and implemented A/B experimentation and reporting tools to analyze & compare performance metrics.
JavaSpring BootMachine LearningSQLReact.jsMicroservices+2

Meta

Software Engineer

May 2022Aug 2022 · 3 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

  • ✦ Designed & implemented status monitoring for Ad violation detection algorithms on Instagram & Facebook.
  • ✦ Created dynamic directed graphs for above algorithms using React and metrics dashboard using SQL.
  • ✦ Improved development speed by 20x for the team by reducing pipeline runtime from 3 hours to 10 minutes.
  • ✦ Created tool to derive insights like execution time, no. of ad labels sent for human reviewing, labels
  • reviewed, etc.
ReactSQL

Georgia institute of technology

Graduate Research Assistant

Aug 2021Dec 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Atlanta, Georgia, United States

  • ✦ Caught 46 students cheating by developing secret tools that detect plagiarism in online exams and take-home assignments with Prof. Thad Starner.

Jpmorgan chase & co.

3 roles

Associate Software Engineer

Jan 2021Jul 2021 · 6 mos

  • ✦ Developed front-end UI using React-Redux for thousands of advisors trading in primary & secondary (FX) markets.
  • ✦ Improved speed by 5 seconds (50%) in sequential processing of trades by introducing concurrency.
React-ReduxJavaConcurrencyReact

Software Engineer II

Promoted

Jan 2020Dec 2020 · 11 mos

  • ✦ Built multiple Spring Boot applications with micro-service architecture. Implemented concurrency, actuators, caching, load balancers & loggers.
  • ✦ Reduced infrastructure costs by 70% by deploying applications on a private cloud.
  • ✦ Reduced the shares allocation process time from >2 mins to <15 secs by introducing multithreading.
  • ✦ Reduced latency by introducing Kafka for high-performance processing of trades.
  • ✦ Subject Matter Expert at the Code for Good Hackathon for 120+ students for two consecutive years (2019 & 2020).
Spring BootMicroservicesKafka

Software Engineer I

Jul 2018Dec 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • ✦ Reduced deployment effort by more than 90% by implementing the CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins & Jules) with various scans.
  • ✦ Followed proper agile practices including sprint planning, daily standup, backlog refinement, retrospective, etc.

Zaarvii technologies

Android Developer Intern

Dec 2016Jan 2017 · 1 mo

  • ✦ Worked as an Android Developer Intern at an IIT Bombay based startup Zaarvii Technologies funded by Reliance Startup Foundation.

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science

Aug 2021Dec 2022

Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering

Bachelor’s Degree — Information Technology

Jan 2014Jan 2018

KC College

High School Diploma

Aug 2012May 2014

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