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Varunn Chauhan

Singapore

Summary

Engineering Manager with over 12 years of experience driving strategic initiatives and technical excellence. Driving the development and adoption of strategic initiatives across 11 web applications and mentoring a web chapter of 25+ developers are testaments to my ability to influence technical direction and foster growth. I have a proven track record of identifying key opportunities and leading initiatives from concept to execution. Adept at mentoring teams, fostering collaboration across diverse stakeholders, and delivering scalable solutions. I have leveraged AI technologies to optimize stages of development lifecycle, improve engineering productivity, and reduce development cycle times.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Web Chapter Lead

FairPrice Group
03.2022 - Current
  • Managed a web chapter team of 25 developers, fostering their professional growth and technical expertise
  • Aligned the Web Chapter's goals with FairPrice digital transformation strategy by focusing on enhancing user engagement, resulting in a 23% increase in Weekly Active Users (WAU) and a 13% improvement in Web Ecomm CSAT score
  • Led the initiative of developing FairPrice Group design system, to foster consistent design patterns across 11 web apps within the FairPrice Group (FairPrice, Link, and Learning Hub)
  • Established regular tech talks, workshops, and mentorship initiatives, guiding their execution and driving knowledge sharing and skill development within the Web Chapter
  • Conducted 1-1 meetings to coach and support professional growth, preparing personalized development roadmaps by designing and balancing tailored Personal Development Plans (PDPs)
  • Standardized the hiring process with HR, improving hiring efficiency by 30% and reducing average time-to-hire from 60 days to 45 days
  • Drove cross-functional engineering initiatives through strategic collaboration with engineering, product, and business leaders across multiple tribes

Principal Software Engineer

FairPrice Group
03.2022 - Current
  • Engineered Project Chimera, a cross-platform framework to efficiently deliver unified web views on native iOS and Android applications, achieving a 40% reduction in development time through platform-specific abstraction
  • Drove strategic AI-first adoption of Code Assist across FairPrice Group (FPG) reducing cycle time by 35% (from 14 to 9 days)
  • Conducted multiple AI workshops, exhibiting the potential of AI tools to FPG developers, in collaboration with the Google Cloud team
  • Optimised Kubernetes services on GCP, reducing page load time by 55%, decreasing pod count by 66%, and achieving $24k in annual cost savings
  • Strategically re-designed and implemented a scalable event-tracking architecture by migrating to Segment CDP and optimised 300+ events to 92 unified events
  • Directed the design and modeled the implementation of the backend for frontend (BFF) pattern, and architected its provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IAC), ensuring scalability and reliability
  • Collaborating with Google to implement AI agentic flows for PR review and JIRA

Staff Software Engineer Web

FairPrice Group
09.2019 - 03.2022
  • Led a collaboration with the Google Chrome team, elevating FairPrice pagespeedapi score by 183% (from 30 to 85)
  • Developed a robust invoice generation service automating creation of PDF invoices for diverse order types (B2C, B2B, Offline) reducing manual processing time by 80%
  • Led the planning and execution of a Deployment Preview, saving 20% of developer's time
  • Significantly reduced the production outages by implementing the E2E testing flow and reduce CFR by 30% for web journeys
  • Drove performance monitoring and user experience tracing initiatives for the FairPrice web platform

Senior Software Engineer Web

FairPrice
04.2019 - 09.2019
  • Designed the architecture and led the implementation of the FairPrice frontend stack to launch the new FairPrice Website
  • Led and contributed (hands-on) to a large scale B2B/B2C e-commerce platform migration from IBM WCS to state-of-the-art cloud solution within 8 months
  • Designed and implemented an analytics layer for tracking different types of user engagement and conversion events
  • Designed and implemented the conditional OTP transactional flow for all front-end applications

Senior Software Engineer

Myntra Design Pvt Ltd
07.2015 - 04.2019
  • Company Overview: Myntra is an Indian fashion e-commerce company
  • Designed and implemented an events correlation engine that diagnosed key issues across 300+ services and reduced MTTD for any revenue-related incidents
  • Innovated and contributed a key Node Agent for implementing our in-house APM solution, creating potential savings of $500K USD
  • Led the creation of an AI bot that helped internal business users identify and analyse incidents, and automatic rollbacks decreasing CFR significantly by 43%
  • Drove the implementation of the CI/CD flow for Myntra via Shuttle UI
  • Measured and visualised performance dependencies across 300+ microservices using the in-house ECG dependency mapper, enabling developers to efficiently identify and address service performance impacts
  • Myntra is an Indian fashion e-commerce company

Associate Switch Engineer

Vodafone
11.2010 - 07.2013
  • Analysed call processing flows and traffic studies to optimise the millions of calls routed via Vodafone network
  • Performed network modelling and analysed complex data from multiple sources
  • Implemented mobile number portability in J&K state (India) for 10 million Vodafone users

Education

Master's in Technology - Computer Application

Thapar University
Punjab, India
06.2015

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science and Engineering

I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University
Jalandhar, Punjab
08.2010

Skills

  • ReactJS
  • NextJs
  • NodeJS
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • ES6
  • PPT
  • Scrum
  • Webpack
  • Microfrontend
  • CSS
  • GraphQL
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Kafka
  • Jest
  • HTML
  • Cybersecurity
  • Web Vitals
  • Data Structures
  • Performance Optimization
  • Sentry
  • Python
  • Golang
  • GCP
  • SQL
  • Microservices Architecture
  • Design system
  • DataDog
  • Automated Testing
  • SDLC
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • CI/CD
  • Java
  • GitLab
  • GitHub
  • Redux
  • Bitbucket
  • Terraform
  • Docker
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Figma
  • React Native
  • Apple iOS
  • Incident Management
  • Technical Leadership
  • Coaching
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Engineering Management
  • Project Management
  • Mentoring
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Teamwork
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Performance Management
  • Risk and Compliance
  • Digital Transformation
  • Strategic Alignment
  • Vendor Management

Medium Articles

  • Deploy NextJs App to Kubernetes
  • Deployment preview using Google Cloud Run
  • How to integrate OKTA with a React app
  • How to monitor web user-centric metrics?
  • Web performance by self-hosting external scripts?

Open Source

  • Cortex
  • Service-mapper
  • Glowroot-node-agent
  • React-autocomplete

Find Me Online

www.linkedin.com/in/varunc1/, www.github.com/varunchauhan49, www.medium.com/@chauhanvarun

Research Papers

  • Analysis of TCP Variants Over Variable Traffic
  • OFFRP - Optimised Fruit Fly Based Routing Protocol With Congestion Control For UAVs Guided Ad Hoc Networks

Timeline

Web Chapter Lead

FairPrice Group
03.2022 - Current

Principal Software Engineer

FairPrice Group
03.2022 - Current

Staff Software Engineer Web

FairPrice Group
09.2019 - 03.2022

Senior Software Engineer Web

FairPrice
04.2019 - 09.2019

Senior Software Engineer

Myntra Design Pvt Ltd
07.2015 - 04.2019

Associate Switch Engineer

Vodafone
11.2010 - 07.2013

Master's in Technology - Computer Application

Thapar University

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science and Engineering

I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University

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