# Varnika Sinha > Software Engineer at Google Location: Greater Boston, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/varnika As a software engineer at Google Cloud Platform (GCP), I develop and maintain software for Google Cloud's External Application Load Balancers. My previous experience includes developing a large scale credential rotation system and migrating several legacy microservices to improve release velocity at IBM Cloud Databases - the former winning an Outstanding Technical Achievement award and the latter winning the IBM Entrepreneur award. My research as a grad student focused on security in distributed systems. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2026 – Present | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States ### Advisory Software Engineer @ IBM Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | Lowell, Massachusetts, United States Develops and maintains platform features for IBM Cloud Databases in Golang using Kubernetes and Docker Develops and maintains CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and introduced RAG driven AI workflows for developer productivity Leads customer impacting events recovery and root cause analysis Offerings include PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Mongodb, RabbitMQ, and Elasticsearch Migrated 9 cloud services from legacy monolithic deployments to Argocd/GitOps framework to speed up production deployments cutting release time from 3 months to days, up to 90% Improved backup and restore capability security by using sidecar proxy to prevent HTTPS attacks and secure cross region transfers Participated in planning architecture for new projects and lead a squad of people who I also mentored ### Staff Software Engineer @ IBM Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Developed a generalized credential rotation framework managing a scale of 100 million credentials across several datacenter regions with Kubernetes custom resources and operator Developed IBM Cloud wide Context-based Restrictions feature based on IAM (Identity and Access Management) for network security Troubleshot problems with individual database instances and with the underlying platform as part of site-reliability tasks ### Associate Software Engineer @ IBM Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Automated remediation of container image vulnerabilities to maintain compliance by reducing manual effort of engineers by 95% Improved end to end testing coverage by 20% and decreased automatic testing time by 50% Troubleshot problems with individual database instances and with the underlying platform as part of site-reliability tasks ### EECS Teacher Assistant for Interconnected Embedded Systems (6.08) @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Assisted the professor in guiding students in their lab work in IoT (building circuits and debugging in C++ in Arduino environment) Tutored and graded students in multi-variable calculus, electricity & magnetism, mechanics ### Peer Mentor @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Helped first-year students adjust to campus and academic culture by planning and managing events ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Created CAD model for device adjusted to laser cutter head Ran an ML model to classify images based on texture Created a server to host data and send images between UI and laser cutter ### Software Engineering Intern @ Fidelity Investments Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Durham, North Carolina, United States Created python script to automate filtering and tagging AWS resources such as CloudFormation and SSL Certificates Coded and deployed containerized lambda decryption code to multiple regions ### EECS Lab Assistant for Interconnected Embedded Systems (6.08) @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Graded student's practical coursework on internet connect systems Tutored and advised students in student-led projects ### Campus Tour Guide @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Led a group of 10-30 people through coordinated path using public speaking skills to convey information During COVID19 pandemic- answered student questions via email on various topics to advertise student life and academics ### Peer Mentor @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 Helped first-year students adjust to campus and academic culture by planning and managing events ### Global Teaching Labs Teacher @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Mantua, Lombardy, Italy Taught 10 sets of 30 Italian students whose first language was not English computer programming concepts including graphics and algorithms in Python and databases in SQL in English ### Orientation Leader @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 Welcomed first-years on campus and led them through orientation activities ### Undergraduate Researcher @ McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 Natural Language Processing Trained and ran tests on neural nets to detect natural language changes Focused on identifying changes in sentence structure and word choice Compared to brain activation areas from MRI scans ### Software Engineering Intern @ Fidelity Investments Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Boston, MA Created a web crawler to collect financial data using Python and bash scripts Analyzed data to predict the amount of revenue saved from preventing attrition ## Education ### Master of Engineering - MEng in Computer Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/varnikasinha --- Source: https://flows.cv/varnika JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/varnika/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31