Bharath Varma

Overview

I've spent 18 years on API platforms - first at Philips, now at Infosys. Shipped 9 launches on the public API team without a rollback. Reduced cloud spend on public API by 35% in two quarters. Before that: Flipkart and ITC. Most at home with PostgreSQL and Django.

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Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Feb 2026 - Present
   Infosys · 8 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Previously an operator for 6 years before investing.
   • Backed 18 founders at pre-seed and seed.
2. Senior Engineering Manager

   Oct 2022 - Feb 2026
   Flipkart · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Shipped 26 launches on the public API team without a rollback.
   • Wrote the Redis service that now handles 15 million requests a day.
3. Senior Engineering Manager

   Feb 2020 - Oct 2022
   ITC · 2 yr 8 mo · Contract · Chennai, India
   • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 36 a week to 3.
   • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 557ms to 133ms.
4. Backend Engineer

   Mar 2017 - Feb 2020
   Kotak Mahindra Bank · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Moved 63% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
5. Backend Engineer

   Feb 2014 - Mar 2017
   Philips · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 44 minutes to under 3.

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Education

1. IIT Madras

   B.Tech, Computer Science
   2004 - 2008