Varun Garg
Engineering Leader at Coinbase
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolVarun Garg is a Staff Technical Program Manager in Seattle with 12 years of experience blending hands-on engineering and large-scale program leadership across streaming, cloud services, and consumer platforms. He has led cross-functional teams of 70+ to re-architect legacy batch systems into event-driven services at Amazon, delivering daily price predictions for over a billion products and slashing feature launch times from months to weeks. At Warner Bros. Discovery he now drives Streaming Platform initiatives in Authorization and AI/ML-driven recommendations, while his earlier Microsoft work improved global monitoring, deployment automation and localization at scale. A former backend developer and performance engineer, Varun has contributed to the Eclipse OMR runtime—optimizing memory management and improving garbage collector reliability—showing he still dives into code to solve difficult performance problems. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from NYU and brings a pragmatic mix of product, research and operational experience to bridge strategy and execution.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at New York UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Osmania University
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Github Skills (21)
c-language10
memory-management10
valgrind10
performance-optimization10
omr10
cprogramming-language10
garbage-collection10
ubuntu9
memory-allocation9
windows9
memory-model9
cython9
hashtable9
naming-conventions6
c996
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse-omr/omr
Jun 2017 - Jun 2018
Eclipse OMR™ Cross platform components for building reliable, high performance language runtimes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Performance Engineer
Back-end Developer & Performance EngineerContributions:47 commits, 11 PRs, 65 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Varun primarily focused on improving the performance and reliability of the Eclipse OMR runtime. Their work included disabling assertions in example code, integrating Valgrind for memory checking, and optimizing memory management by introducing a memory heap range map and later switching to using handle->getMemoryBase(). They also addressed memory-related issues by adding valgrind calls in various parts of the code and fixing errors related to object allocation and freeing, which significantly improved the reliability of the garbage collector. Further improvements involved the use of STL.
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Varun-garg/XPlatform-Lookup
Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:1 release, 48 commits, 38 pushes in 6 months
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