Varun Shridhar Email & Phone Number

Gurgaon, India

- Server Side Lead for Ad Tech Vertical responsible for 23% of company's annual revenue, helped grow revenue by 1.4x- Conducted over 100+ interviews to bolster team strength and helped improve team efficiency by assisting in the onboarding of a 3rd party interviewer- Served as a core mentor for new key team leaders, to assist them in their managerial tasks - Primary advisor for product, tech PoC for partners and key developer for an eCommerce venture with the flagship company product helping generate 0.1M daily customers - Core server side and product advisor for a 13M DAU product; coordinated and regulated the server team's efforts- Created a documentation standard for the entire server side team and created templates for new feature requirements, incident reports for company wide use- Standardized ticketing policies and task maintenance on JIRA for the server side team and conducted training sessions for the same- Collaborated with business partners to lead tech for the new Merchandising vertical which brings in over INR 10L of quarterly revenue

Gurgaon, India

- Led server side efforts for a 10M DAU strong product made in partnership with Xiaomi. Led decision making for 15 member strong pod and distributed work across various teams- Led tech for a new APIaaS business vertical and facilitated delivery of 2 major client campaigns, educated the business team on feasible commercial models and listed the same on public marketplaces while coordinating with their support teams- Collaborated with the AI and Business team and created the back end and scaling capabilities for a Language Detection API which performed better than industry benchmarks for a $13B tech giant and set commercials for the same- Institutionalized documentation for code standardization related practices for GoLang, leading to a 40% reduction of code review time- Revamped Sports API offering which cut down operational costs by 40%- Led tech to integrate popular tracking tools like mDAR and Floodlight in internal Ingestion APIs for Data and Marketing Teams- Created an internal hiring pipeline for the server side team and set templates for feedback and responses and conducted training sessions for taking interviews and giving feedback to candidates. Helped increase feedback efficiency by 60%- Led server side efforts for a Python-TensorFlow based repository which affected Head Cartoonification for over 5M daily users

Gurugram, Haryana, India

- Ideated and created the server side tech for a live streaming, SSE based sports data feature, powering 2M DAU during sporting events like IPL and FIFA World Cup etc. which brings in over 1Cr of revenue annually- Worked on the front end and back end and acted as the technical PoC with external agencies of a tool responsible for training in-house voice data with extensive record and review systems to help record and evaluate over 6M recordings- Created a microservice framework on Go using Clean Architecture which is now used for 100+ server side repositories - Migrated a key service from Laravel to Go which reduced latency by 70%- Led migration of the company website from AngularJS to NextJS, which reduced overall development speed by 40% and improved overall website performance by 30%- Led web development for several product websites, and acted as the tech PoC for all inter departmental communication

Gurgaon, India

List of projects:•Used Polynomial Regression to get a relationship between Facebook Reach and Amount Spent on promoting that post • Implemented an Image Classifier using the Google Vision API• Implemented an audio transcriber for files less than 1 minute using the Google Speech to Text API• Created a Keyword Generator which uses custom use cases and the Google Cloud Natural Language API to find keywords from user given data• Helped create a hiring platform which offers anonymity to candidates.• Made a Reporting Application for medical professionals which pulls data from Google, GoogleMyBusiness, Facebook, and Twitter. Also performed basic data analysis on said data as per the requirements. • Responsible for creating and maintaining web servers web servers on Google Compute Engine to run a LAMP stack.• Created websites with with Wordpress and an e-commerce store with Magento• Implemented webRTC (one-way and two-way video facilities)

Delhi Area, India

•Worked on Unity Game Engine to integrate APIs and SDKs into an existing app.

Bachelor’S Degree, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Activities and Societies: Treasurer - Bulls and Bears : The Finance Club , Member - Music Club

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