About

Varun Raj is a highly skilled software engineer currently working at Google as a Software Engineer in Ads Infra- Search Ads Serving. With over 6 years of experience, Varun has led and coordinated numerous projects spanning cross-functionally across dev and SRE teams across different time zones. He has worked on projects that have improved resource efficiency, latency, and reliability for the highly complex ads serving stack that is responsible for 60% of Google's revenue. Varun is a winner of various Math Olympiads/ICPC competitions and has done research in theoretical cryptography. His Erdos number is 2. Varun has worked previously as a Software Engineer at Oracle, where he worked on Build Systems. He has also worked as a Research Assistant at the National University of Singapore, where his work resulted in a paper on Interesting Relations Between Continuous Non-Malleable Codes and Parallel CCA Commitments. Varun holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Guwahati. His education history also includes relevant coursework in software engineering, search, SRE, and infra. Currently, Varun is working on performance optimizations to improve the resource efficiency and the p99 latency for serving ads on Google-owned surfaces. He is skilled in software engineering, search, SRE, research, and infra.