Varun Gujarathi
Software Engineer
Work Experience
October 2022 - Present
Software Engineer - Clean Slate Initiative
- Initiated the transition to the Git version control system, reducing development bottlenecks by 30% and accelerating code deployments by 20%.
- Aided in visualizing and analyzing criminal justice data by building an optimized app using Next.js, identifying potential racial disparities, and saving over $18B in lost earnings annually (paperprisons.org/rja).
September 2020 - June 2022
Software Engineer - Wealth & Personal Banking (Fraud I.T.)
- Reduced banking fraud by 60% and saved over $2M annually by enabling real-time fraud detection through Spring Boot microservices across 100+ banking event types.
- Improved user experience for 500K+ daily API requests through a multi-threaded Spring Integration router resulting in 73% faster response time.
- Implemented indexing and caching to improve Oracle database performance, reducing latency by 50% for over 1 million daily transactions.
- Collaborated with product managers and architects to enable PSD2 compliance for over 14 million U.K. customers by rapidly rolling out a MuleSoft mTLS Gateway into production within 15 days.
January 2020 - July 2020
Machine Learning Intern - Retail Analytics
- Increased revenue of retail stores by 22% by building event-driven microservices, using Python, Kafka, and Redis, to analyze behaviors and journey patterns of loyal customers.
Education
June 2024
Santa Clara University
Master of Science - Computer Science
- Coursework: Adv. Operating Systems, Database Systems, Design Analysis of Algorithms
May 2020
Savitribai Phule Pune University (VIT Pune)
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics Engineering
- Best Capstone Project
- Coursework: Object-oriented Programming, Data Structures & Algorithms, Computer Architecture, Pattern Recognition
Extra-Curricular
- Head, Robotics Club – Led 25 engineers securing 6th in an international robotics competition by building an intelligent quadrupedal robot.
- Website lead, Student Council – Led college website development handling 10K+ peak traffic; mentored 4 developers on ReactJS and AWS.
- Executive Producer, TEDxVITPune (Premier TEDx conference) – Orchestrated stage design, production, and content for the TEDx event with 500+ attendees and thousands of live stream views.