About

Varun Rao is an experienced product leader and tech consultant with over a decade of experience in building, growing, shipping, and scaling software products and services from ideation to growth to adoption to maturity. He is a skilled professional with expertise in product leadership, technical product management, program management, enterprise data platform, analytics, visualization, governance, machine learning, artificial intelligence, developer tools, low code no code, integrations, orchestrations, API platform, platform services, database, caching, messaging, cloud, deployment, product documentation, go-to-market, release management, sales, pre-sales demo, team hiring, team building, and product CoE. Currently working as a Principal Consultant - PaaS | Platform Services (Cache | Database | Messaging) at Nagarro, Varun is building the API platform and DevOps automation for a global company that includes the family of brands, including Autotrader®, Clutch Technologies, Dealer.com®, Dealertrack®, Kelley Blue Book®, Manheim®, NextGear Capital®, VinSolutions®, vAuto® and Xtime®. He is responsible for .net, Angular, Mashery, API Management, Rally, SAFe, Agile, Scrum, Data Platforms, Power BI, Office 365, Excel, Presentations, AWS, Data Warehouse, Mural, Balsamiq, New Relic, Storybook, Caching framework, Messaging framework, Database framework, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, PPAS, PostgreSQL, Cloud SQL, Google cloud, Java, Microservices, APIs, Gateways, Integrations, Analytics, Google Analytics, Data Platforms, Platform Extensibility, API Management, Jira, Confluence, Office 365, Splunk, Vendor management - EDB, Google, Confluent. In the past, Varun has worked with SOTI as a Product Manager - Low Code | PaaS | SaaS | Integration (Internal | External | Cloud | On Premise) and with GlobalLogic as a Senior Product Manager - Data (Engineering | Analytics | Science | Visualization). At SOTI, he led a team to manage application design, development, enhancements, break-fixes, standard application changes, and maintenance activities. He was responsible for developing and/or configuring solutions following established timelines, application development standards, and quality processes in projects. At GlobalLogic, he was responsible for the development of an enterprise-wide strategy for business data management, business intelligence, and analytics, as well