Chai Varier
Software Engineer at YouTube
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChai Varier is a software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable full-stack systems, currently shaping YouTube Commerce's billing and checkout platform that supports 2B+ MAUs and drives over $14B in annual revenue. He designed and launched a modern Checkout API that measurably improved reliability, engineer velocity, and monetization metrics across iOS and web, and previously built petabyte-scale Android telemetry libraries and pipelines for Google's core apps. A University of Waterloo Software Engineering graduate, he has deep build-systems and mobile expertise from co-ops and roles at Snap, Yahoo, and others, including significant Bazel contributions and CI/build optimizations that cut build times and CI cost. Outside of engineering he’s an active SF Bay Area musician with 600k+ streams, bringing a creative, performance-minded approach to product and systems design.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
IBMYP, Secondary School - IB Program (Enriched), IBMYP, Secondary School - IB Program (Enriched) at Lakeside AcademyDEC (CEGEP), First Choice Pure and Applied Science, DEC (CEGEP), First Choice Pure and Applied Science at Dawson CollegeBSE, Honours Software Engineering, BSE, Honours Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, French
Stackoverflow
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12kreached
11answers
2questions
Github Skills (30)
mesh10
elliptic-curve10
differential-equations10
pde-solver10
grid10
partial-differential-equations10
partial10
cgo10
orthogonal10
java9
bazel9
bazel-rules9
scalable9
cli8
go8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cvarier/FastBigMath
Jan 2017 - Aug 2020
Library of functions for infinite-precision integer arithmetic.
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 7 months
integer-arithmetic
Cvarier/fftAudioAnalyzer
Jun 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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