Varun Agarwal
Gurugram
Summary
Strategic Account Executive with proven success increasing sales and revenue through developing loyal account relationships. Articulate communicator with exceptional negotiation skills. Known for understanding customer needs and delivering effective solutions.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Devops Architect
BEAM SUNTORY
Gurugram
05.2022 - Current
- Designed and developed a DevOps platform for the development teams to set up CI/CD pipelines and capture logs using Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube, and New Relic
- Led the transition of more than 10 internal and external development teams onto the new Devops platform, resulting in savings of more than $250,000 for the company
Co-Founder
BLACKBYTT
Gurugram
09.2019 - Current
- Built and managed a 10-person team that had a combination of junior and senior developers
- Lead a team of designers and developers to build a Shopify App that can add animated customized cartoon product badges to a store
- Build Shopify Apps to upsell certain products on store using Sticky Widgets
- Currently building two Shopify Themes from scratch, for sports and medical industries repsectively
- Designed and developed Shopify websites, tools, applications, and educational content; and generated $120,000 in revenue
- Implemented Application Performance Monitoring tools on the cloud, saving 20% of developer time using DataDog and New Relic
- Built ETL Pipelines using AWS Glue that ingest transactional and event data from a web application with 10,000 daily active users and saved over $50,000 in external vendor costs annually
Principal Software Developer
THE BLACKSTONE GROUP
Gurugram
08.2017 - 09.2019
- Led team of 6 junior software engineers undertaking the software development life cycle for the corporate-payments team
- Led a team of 12 Developers in the transition from managed servers to AWS, ultimately saving the company $500,000 per year and raising efficiency by 15%
- Managed 200+ AWS, Jenkins, and TeamCity accounts to proactively manage resource access and improve security
- Automated build and deployment process with TeamCity and Git, eliminating 75% of manual work
- Promoted within 12 months due to strong performance and organizational impact - ahead of schedule by 12 months
Full Stack Software Developer
THE BLACKSTONE GROUP
New York
06.2016 - 08.2017
- Implemented RESTful APIs in ASP.NET alongside another developer, allowing the valuations team to increase reporting speed by 25%
- Worked with a team of 5 software engineers to refactor the code for SSIS/SSRS reports and reduce the service loading time by 60%
- Developed scripts that automate tasks such as database backups and restores, and server provisioning, saving on average 60 person-hours weekly
Education
Bachelor of Applied Science - Computer Science, South Asian Studies
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Philadelphia, USA06-2016
Skills
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Application Monitoring
- Shopify Theme Development
- Shopify App Development
- Shopify Store Management
- SonarQube and Code Quality Control
- Jenkins
- Github and Version Control
- Nexus
- Datadog
- NewRelic
- Splunk
- Teamcity
- Postman
- Shell Script
- Swagger
- ASPNET
- Jira
Hobbies and Interests
Helping small up-coming business with their technology needs - setup over 50 Shopify websites for local business, worth $25,000.
Timeline
Devops Architect
BEAM SUNTORY
05.2022 - Current
Co-Founder
BLACKBYTT
09.2019 - Current
Principal Software Developer
THE BLACKSTONE GROUP
08.2017 - 09.2019
Full Stack Software Developer
THE BLACKSTONE GROUP
06.2016 - 08.2017
Bachelor of Applied Science - Computer Science, South Asian Studies
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
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