Varun Varma Email & Phone Number

Sunnyvale, CA, US

New York, New York, US

* Leading Panoptes, the open sourced Network Telemetry Ecosystem - more at http://getpanoptes.io* Spoken at NANGO, ONUG, SF Python and SCALE

New York, New York, US

• Deliver key components of the network telemetry and monitoring framework @ Yahoo!
• Mentor and provide day to day management for team members
• Define and ensure implementation of coding standards, best practices, software testingand release management in a Continuous Delivery model
• Prepare and own designs, plans and budgets
• Work with leading vendors across the networking industry to understand and influenceplatform features and limitations
• Develop high level frameworks

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Oversee both day to day operations and provide technical strategic guidance to my group
• Co-ordinate between my group and related groups within Yahoo! to take decisions about various technical aspects
• Direct overall production engineering design to ensure capacity, reliability and performance of the Yahoo! Premium Ads system, which spans thousands of hosts and dozens of components
• Work with senior management to define and evaluate goals for the group
• Mentor new and existing group members

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Overall design to ensure capacity, reliability and performance of the Yahoo! Premium Ads system, which spans thousands of hosts and dozens of components
• Taking very broad directions from senior management and executive team and to turn them into specific actionable designs and plans for the team to execute
• Propose and influence the direction of technology and management to improve system performance, capacity and reliability
• Work with the management team to define goals for the global team
• Represent the team on external forums - both within Yahoo! and outside
• Wrote and presented technical papers at Yahoo!’s internal technical conference

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Managed a team of 10 in Bangalore
• Supervised day to day operations of Production Engineering team for Premium Ad Serving in Bangalore
• Hiring, coaching, performance appraisal and firing of team members
• Implementation of all company and department policies and procedures within the team
• Hands on/technical escalation point for the team
• Liaising with other teams within Yahoo for defining working relationships, expectations andSLAs

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Day to day operations of thousands of servers needed to effectively run Sponsored Search
• Triaging and fixing and production issues by implementing patches, workarounds or designchanges
• Launching new software to the servers, as and when needed
• Represent my team to the cross-functional group responsible for transitioning andintegration of Microsoft's search and advertising platform into Yahoo!

• Mindframe was a consulting and development firm started by me which focused on network and systems verticals
• Developed a product called PacketManager – a combination of a proprietary Layer 4 protocols, implemented as custom kernel modules, wrapped in a custom distribution, pre-loaded on a x86 router platform
• Executed many interesting and technically challenging projects for marquee clients such as the Delhi Stock Exchange, World Health Organization, India and Modi-Xerox
• Helped clients achieve compliance to standards such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 with a combination of consulting and hands-on infrastructure changes
• Had been entrusted with confidential information of the highest level and was interacting with CxOs for audit projects which involved confidential information of Fortune 500 companies
• Advised clients on IT infrastructure technology choices and capacity planning

• Audney was a startup focused on developing products and services for Digital Home market
• Conceptualized and led the development of the product range
• Built and led a multi-functionary team of 12 members including developers, QA and administration staff
• Identified hardware components by interacting with vendors in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan over email, phone and in person
• Successfully demoed the product prototypes to various round two investors