About

Varun Maliwal is a full stack engineering leader and manager with over 10 years of experience in software engineering. He is currently working as a Software Development Manager at Amazon, where he leads a team of high-performance software engineers working on automating workflows and task management for the supply chain of physical retail stores. Varun is passionate about building and leading software engineers and teams. He believes in a people-first approach and empowering people. He has a proven track record of entrepreneurial and leadership skills. Varun is highly experienced with AWS suite of technologies and has worked in an agile environment since 2011. Varun has over 6 years of experience working in JavaScript and various frameworks including Backbone, ExtJS, Angular, VueJS, and React. He has also built APIs using NodeJS, NoSQL, and SQL databases for over 5 years. Varun has past experience of building high-performance RESTful apps in Ruby and Java. He is a functional programming and reactive framework enthusiast and well aware of DDD, Event-driven design, CQRS, microservices, and container-based architecture patterns. Varun has worked with various companies in the past, including Koonchi, where he co-founded the company and designed and led the development of the Koonchi platform. He was a single-threaded owner responsible for day-to-day operations for smooth functioning of the platform. He also worked at Capital One as a Software Engineering Manager, where he managed and led a team of software engineers working on a social product helpful for identifying early stage startups and technology. Varun has a Master's degree in Computer Science from The George Washington University and a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Savitribai Phule Pune University. He has a diverse tech stack that includes AWS, SQL, Javascript, Jenkins, CI/CD, NoSQL, Microservices, NodeJS, Neo4j, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, DevOps, Frontend, Backend, Ruby, AngularJS, and Java.