About

Varun Thakur is a Software Engineer II at Delivery Hero with over 5 years of experience in building scalable, cost-effective, reliable, and performant systems using agile development methodologies across different geographies. He has a solid foundation in computer science and strong competencies in data structures and algorithms. Varun has a wide range of technical skills, including data structures, algorithms, Java, Kotlin, Spring (Boot/MVC), SQL Datastore (PostgreSQL, MS SQL server, My SQL), NoSQL Datastore (Cassandra, Scylla, DynamoDb), Cache (Redis), AWS (ec2, ecs, s3, ebs, rds, elastic cache, ses, lambda, secrets manager, cloudwatch, iam, cfo), Apache Kafka, Avro, JMeter, Tomcat, Lucene, Kubernetes, GraphQL, JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber, Wiremock, Splunk, Docker, Grafana, Prometheus, Graphite, StatsD, Github, Jenkins, Bitbucket, and JIRA, among others. Varun has worked as a Software Development Engineer III and II at Expedia before joining Delivery Hero. He has a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi, and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies. Varun also completed his schooling from Geeta Bal Bharati School, Delhi, and Biglow's Public School, Delhi. Varun has a strong online presence, including a Stack Overflow profile, a Medium account, and a GitHub page. His tech stack includes Software Engineering, SQL, AWS, Bamboo, ECS, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker, NoSQL, Cassandra, Kafka, Spring, Jenkins, Java, Kotlin, and more. With 6.44 years of relevant experience, Varun is a clean coder, problem solver, and agile developer who is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to learn and grow.