Varun Khanna

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Principal Engineer at Willow Ops · Platform engineering

Willow Ops
Jaipur, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
18+ years experience
IIT Hyderabad
English, Hindi
Open to work
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Overview

Based in Jaipur. I work on platform engineering at Willow Ops. Shipped 16 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback. Wrote the AppSec service that now handles 45 million requests a day.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in healthcare
  • Working sessions on Kubernetes
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills
KubernetesBazelobservabilityservice meshAppSec
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Next role: Platform Engineer in HR tech, Jaipur or hybrid

Target roles
Platform Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
Climate tech, Healthtech
Work mode
Remote
Available
Immediately
Work authorization
Indian citizen
What I'm looking for
Early-stage company (Series B) where healthcare is core to the product.
Not interested in
Crypto

22 years in platform engineering. Strongest at service mesh and Bazel. Available from next month.

Jaipur, Indiaappseckubernetesobservability
Open

Experience

  1. Principal Engineer
    May 2022 - Present
    Willow Ops · 4 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Previously an operator for 8 years before investing.
    • Sit on 3 boards.
    • Backed 33 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Sep 2018 - May 2022
    ITC · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 35 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Wrote the Kubernetes service that now handles 54 million requests a day.
  3. Senior Engineering Manager
    Nov 2014 - Jul 2018
    PhonePe · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Shipped 24 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback.
  4. Staff Platform Engineer
    Feb 2011 - Nov 2014
    Tata Motors · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 36 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  5. Senior Platform Engineer
    Mar 2009 - Feb 2011
    Hindustan Unilever · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 556ms to 100ms.
    • Mentored 9 engineers through their first promotion.

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Education

  1. IIT Hyderabad
    B.Tech, Electronics and Communication
    2000 - 2004

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