About

Varun Arora is a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineering Manager with over 10 years of experience in DBA and database development. He has a strong foundation in DBMS, both Relational and NoSQL, and is an expert in architecting MySQL and MariaDB centric data solutions. He also has experience in designing solutions with Cassandra and its maintenance, as well as working knowledge of other NoSQLs like Aerospike, Neo4j, MongoDB, Redis, and Riak. Varun has expertise in scaling database solutions and integrating full text solutions like Sphinx and caching solutions like Memcached with MySQL. He has worked in various functional domains like BFSI, Intellectual Property, Instant Messaging, and Payments. Currently, Varun is working as a Site Reliability Engineering Manager at LinkedIn, where he is responsible for ensuring the reliability and availability of LinkedIn's infrastructure. Prior to that, he worked at Ola as a Senior Engineering Manager and Engineering Manager, where he was involved in creating process workflows for the team, tuning and capacity planning of databases, and leading the team of MySQL and NoSQL DBAs. He also worked on innovation and automation through in-house platform development, various POCs and benchmarks for accommodating better scalability and concurrency of databases, cost optimization, monitoring frameworks, and high availability of all datastores. Varun holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Information Technology from the University School of Information Technology and completed his high school education from Mira Model Senior Secondary School. He has a strong technical skill set that includes SRE, Senior Software Engineer, MySQL, Neo4j, NoSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Software Engineer. With 16.87 years of relevant experience, Varun is a self-driven software engineer who is passionate about creating robust and scalable solutions.