# Varun Bezzam

> Software Engineer @ Zip | ex-Lyft, Salesforce

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/varunbezzam

Software Engineer at Zip

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Zip
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Lyft
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Tech Lead for APIs on Lyft Autonomous
- Designed and implemented low-latency gRPC APIs for sending and receiving vehicle information for all autonomous vehicles (AVs) at Lyft
- Served as primary contact for technical communications with external AV partners (Motional & ArgoAI)
- Created a sandbox environment for partners to request, serve, and test autonomous rides
- Mentored team members on projects, including fault-tolerant APIs for display synchronization in low-connectivity situations and scalable APIs for ingesting ride/route information from partners

Tech Lead for Autonomous Testing Infrastructure
- Designed and developed a highly available, fault-tolerant service for simulating AVs in staging environments
- Enabled product managers, engineers, and quality engineers to test rider experiences for AVs
- Guided engineers and quality engineers on projects to enable continuous end-to-end testing of autonomous rides, resulting in fewer incidents and reduced manual testing
- Developed a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) for testing APIs by Lyft employees and external AV partners

Launched a New Self-Driving Partner (Ford/ArgoAI)
- Developed and implemented a multi-month roadmap for integrating ArgoAI across multiple markets
- Led the launch by collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders from Lyft and ArgoAI

Lead Engineer for EV Mode on Lyft
- Proposed and built a scalable and robust architecture for introducing a new electric vehicle (EV)/hybrid ride mode in the Lyft app
- Mitigated risk of $23M revenue loss over the next two years
- Oversaw development by guiding engineers and collaborating with multiple teams

### Software Engineer II @ Lyft
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Member Of Technical Staff @ Salesforce
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Developed tools and services for reliable operation of data stores such as PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kafka, focusing on automated backups, disaster recovery, high availability, and security
- Built integrations for secure connections between Heroku PostgreSQL databases and Amazon VPC resources
- Decoupled data services from the Heroku platform to support managed data stores across multiple platforms
- Developed integrations for using mutual Transport Layer Security (TLS) between external resources and Heroku PostgreSQL databases
- Mentored interns and assessed candidates during hiring interviews

### Associate Member Of Technical Staff @ Salesforce
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Heroku
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Head Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Atlanta Area
- Served as the Head TA for a class of 450+ students
- Created assignments, graded submissions, moderated Q&A forums, held office hours and guided project groups

### Software Engineering Intern @ Salesforce
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Designed and developed a name and address matching engine as a service
- Replicated the functionality of an industry standard product in the span of three months

### Product Development Intern @ DeTect Technologies
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Chennai Area, India
Developed a first-of-its-kind data management system to be used during industrial plant shutdown by large-scale industries.

### Data Science and Big Data Intern @ Tata Consultancy Services
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Chennai Area, India
- Developed a recommendation engine to recommend products to flight customers.
- Predicted the monthly sales of products on flights over a period of 12 months.
- Analyzed real-world flight data to find the most frequent routes flown, the most popular hubs and predict flight delays.

### Product Development Intern @ CSC
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Chennai Area, India
Developed an Ideation (Idea Generation) Portal - a platform for sharing and discussing ideas that arise within an organisation.

### Engineering Intern @ L&T Infotech
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Developed a Data Warehouse and produced a number of reports, dashboards and widgets for descriptive analytics using SAP’s Business Objects 4.1 and SAP Dashboards.


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018

### Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Computer Science
Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College Of Engineering
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016

### High School
S.B.O.A School And Junior College
Jan 1998 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/varun-bezzam

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Last updated: 2026-03-23