To pursue a career in Software Development with emphasis on High Performance Distributed Systems, Cloud based systems, Networks, Virtualization Enjoys a startup based environment, working in multiple capacities with potential to learn new things everyday.

Staff Engineer @ From November 2011 to Present (4 years 2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaMember of Technical Staff @ · Designed, implemented and integrated performance infrastructure for continuous performance monitoring of nCluster by running different workloads across releases and revisions. · Worked on integrating alerting service in the product to configure alerts for various system failures. · Worked on feature improvement projects on end to end flow to scale up/down the cluster. · Responsible for benchmarking and certifying various platforms ultimately recommended by Aster Data. · Designed and implemented logging infrastructure for platform components. · Worked on improving the install and upgrade flow of nCluster. From April 2010 to September 2011 (1 year 6 months) Member of Technical Staff @ · Responsible for designing, coding and unit testing Group Chat API which used Coherence to provide replicated and distributed environment · Owner of Presence Web Service component which was used to show presence status on the browser as well as publish it. · Integrated Microsoft Office Communicator with Oracle Communicator to publish and subscribe to presence status. Both clients used SIP protocol to interact with the backend server. From May 2008 to April 2010 (2 years) Teaching Assistant @ · Responsible for grading programming assignments based on design, coding and correctness. · Conducted review sessions for programming assignments and exams. From September 2007 to March 2008 (7 months) Summer Intern @ · Developed from scratch a fully working browser based Ajax chat client with messaging, presence and third party call services. The chat client had user interface almost identical to Oracle Communicator (with movable and scrollable windows). · Worked on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to understand the requirements for performance evaluation of the Presence Enabler and the XDMS Server. From June 2007 to September 2007 (4 months) Research Assistant @ · Worked for Prof. Jessica Rose to develop a prototype for effective participatory learning through high level gait simulation and active electronic books using Modelica, OMNotebook and gait simulation results. From January 2007 to April 2007 (4 months) Member Technical Staff, Server Technologies, @ · Worked on a research project to reduce the connection time between the oracle client and oracle server (10gR2) using tools like VTune and Ethereal. · Worked on performance improvement projects, and feature enhancements to Oracle Call Interface (OCI) and Oracle C++ Call Interface (OCCI). Added new APIs to OCI and OCCI. · Developed a memory leak detection tool for diagnosing applications using OCI. From June 2005 to July 2006 (1 year 2 months) Technical Lead @ · One of the four members to start Daphne Systems Pvt. Ltd. · Responsible for designing, coding, testing and integrating a working prototype for Library Automation Software using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology for Daphne Systems Pvt. Ltd. Demonstrated this prototype at the Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSOM), IIT Kharagpur. (Language used: Visual Basic) From January 2005 to May 2005 (5 months) Summer Intern @ · Worked under Prof. Philippe Pucheral to develop a Multimedia Application for Chip Secured XML Access(C-SXA). The application was used to demonstrate streaming of encrypted multimedia data from a remote server depending on the access rules written on a smart card. (Language used: Java) From May 2004 to August 2004 (4 months)

MS, Computer Science @ Stanford University From 2006 to 2008 B Tech, Computer Science and Engineering @ Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur From 2001 to 2005 St. Georges College From 1993 to 1999 Coursera Varun Arora is skilled in: Distributed Systems, Python, C++, Java, Algorithms, C, Operating Systems, Web Services, Cloud Computing, Storage Virtualization, MapReduce, Computer Science, Programming, Scalable Architecture, Start-ups