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title: "Varun S. - Software Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Varun S., Senior Software Engineer| FurtherAI | Observe.AI | Acko | Deutsche Telekom | IIIT A based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and claude."
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# Varun S\. on Tal

## Headline

Senior Software Engineer\| FurtherAI \| Observe\.AI \| Acko \| Deutsche Telekom \| IIIT A

## About

A highly motivated software engineer with proven experience in backend development and a focus on writing scalable and well‑documented code\. My key skills include Java, Spring Boot, Restful APIs, Microservices, MySQL, C\+\+, Data Structures and Algorithms, Software Design, System Design, Design Patterns, and Distributed Systems\. I also possess hands‑on experience in technologies like Redis, Docker, Elastic Search, MongoDB,and Kafka\. Quick Learner, good analytical skills, and adaptive to new challenge\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

claude

cursor

elevenlabs

langchain

## Work experience

Software Engineer at FurtherAI, Jan 2026 \- Present · 8 mos, Remote

Software Development Engineer 2 at Observe\.AI, Feb 2024 \- Dec 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Development Engineer 2 at Acko, Apr 2023 \- Jan 2024 · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \-Vehicle Data Ingestion \(Apache Camel, Spring Scheduler, S3\): Scheduled ETL that ingests specs for newly launched vehicles, giving Acko first\-to\-market quotation capability\. \-PubSub Event Framework \(AWS SNS/SQS, Java, Nexus, DLQ\): Architected a reusable event pipeline \(R2D2 Events\) that streams pricing and business events to analytics via SNS/SQS with dead\-letter queues\. Published plug\-and\-play JARs to internal Nexus so any Java microservice can adopt the framework in minutes\. \-Discount & Eligibility Rule Engine \(jEasyRules, Java, Spring Boot\): Replaced 1000\-row underwriting grids with declarative rules editable by business users through a UI\. Optimized parsing/expression trees to cut rule\-load time at startup; enabled same\-day pricing experiments and region\-level plan toggles across India\. \-Competitor Pricing Pipeline \(AWS Step Functions, Pandas\+Parquet, S3, Redis\): Automated ingestion and transformation of third\-party CSVs; vectorized Pandas to cut batch time by 4×\. Built two\-phase sync to PostgreSQL \+ Redis cache with consistency safeguards\.

Software Development Engineer 1 at Acko, Aug 2021 \- Mar 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, \- A/B Testing Price\-Change Mechanism \(Redis, Java\): Enabled real\-time price experiments: assigns users to test buckets, serves variant prices, and price\-locks quotes in Redis for quote validity duration\. \- Vehicle Information Service Leadership: Led design and development of the Vehicle Information Service, achieving a 6% improvement in ATS, an 8% improvement in Fill Rate, and a reduction of GWP loss through enhanced vehicle pricing data\. \- VIS Migration Strategy: Orchestrated VIS migration strategy across teams and user journeys of Auto Vertical, enabling seamless service adoption and achieving zero\-hiccup migration for 4 major Auto user journeys\. \- Vehicle Launch Automation: Reduced new vehicle launch times from 45 days to 2 days by developing an automated vehicle data ingestion pipeline for user flows\.

Software Engineer at Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs, Jul 2020 \- Jul 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo, Gurgaon, Haryana, India, \- Overhauled the Elasticsearch Index which caters to the Device Listing and Filters Page\. Modeled the new Search Index such that it has easy\-to\-understand queries\. Reduced the frequent updation of the Search Index\. Optimized the search queries and made them 2× faster\. \- Implemented a set of backend RESTful APIs for Tariff Configurator – enables the user on the OneShop platform to configure one's own Tariff/SIM plans based on criteria among Data, Voice Call, SMS, etc\. \- Supported and implemented API microservice – Price Calculator in Spring Boot by moving business intelligence from the Catalog microservice, hence serving as a standalone endpoint for both OneShop as well as OneApp\. \- Supported and implemented API microservice – Inventory in Spring Boot by moving business intelligence from the Catalog microservice to cater to the inventory status of products available\. \- Coordinated Sprint Release delivery by handling Release Management tasks, which involves bringing all the microservices to their latest stable builds with their new features and deploying them on the test environment to do an initial round of sanity testing\. \- Implemented all the changes at the microservices level to move the release deployment procedure to Canary Deployments pattern – a pattern for rolling out releases to a subset of users or servers, for streamlined and smoother delivery of releases to Production\.

Software Development Engineer Intern at Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs, Jan 2020 \- Jun 2020 · 6 mos, Gurgaon, India, \- Implemented several APIs in Spring Boot as part of various User Stories related to business\-impacting user acquisition and net increased revenue generation\. \- Delegated various story defects to concerned developers after doing thorough Root Cause Analysis for streamlined delivery of improvements as part of Defects SPOC\. \- Implemented RESTful APIs to return a user's credit score so as to avail them discounts and benefits based on their transaction history\. \- Assisted in making changes for uploading artifacts of builds to Nexus Repository for smoother and easier local setup of microservices for testing and development\. \- Resolved various important bugs by doing efficient RCA as part of the onboarding process to the codebase\. \- Designed an overall service architecture and pipelines of the Machine Learning\-based Fashion Tagging API SaaS product with microservices architecture\. \- Improved code coverage to 85 percent across many microservices by writing JUnit test cases using Mockito for satisfying code quality gate prerequisites for deployments\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology, Indian Institute Of Information Technology allahabad

Intermediate, MPC, Ascent Classes

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