# Varun Santhanam

> Engineering @ Uber

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

• Currently: Senior Staff Engineer @ Uber working on the rider app.

• Previously: Co-Founder & CTO of Sherbit Health, acquired September 2018 by Medopad

## Work Experience
### Senior Staff Software Engineer — Rider @ Uber
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Staff Software Engineer — Rider Core @ Uber
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer — Rider Foundations @ Uber
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer — Rider Experience @ Uber
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer II — Request Experience @ Uber
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Building & maintaining the Core Rider Request Flow on iOS, including managing integrations and feature launches from teams all across Uber and surfacing them to users in Product Selection

### Founder & CTO @ Sherbit (Acquired)
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Emeryville, CA
- Built & shipped software used at several hospitals including Tufts Medical Center and Jefferson Health.
- Worked with physicians to build hypertension-specific features including blood pressure monitoring, treatment intervention, and daily patient reports.
- Managed local & remote teams in the construction of Sherbit web services and associated front-end applications.
- Built patient-facing iOS app.
- Acquired September 2018 by Medopad

### Software Engineer @ HealthLoop
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, CA
- 3 Month Partnership with Sherbit Health
- Assisted in rewriting the patient-facing frontend from Bootstrap to React/Redux + Typescript + Less.js
- Added features to opt-in and opt-out of HealthLoop check-ins for primary care patients.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Jivox
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | San Mateo, CA / Bangalore, India
- Built an iOS SDK for developers to serve advertisements from the Jivox ad network in their applications.
- Built an internally used iOS application to serve as an ad gallery for use by company salesmen.
Worked with teams in Bangalore, India and San Mateo, CA.

### Linux Server Intern @ Alerting Solutions
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Martinez, CA
- Deconstructed and recompiled proprietary drivers for a relay card to work with other Linux distributions.
- Automated backup of on-site servers with Pearl scripts.
- Worked on a light-weight version of the company’s flagship alerting software for use with a smaller, less-capable hardware stationed in hard to reach places.


## Education
### N/A in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014

### The College Preparatory School
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/talktovarun
- Website: https://www.vsanthanam.com

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Source: https://flows.cv/varunsanthanam
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/varunsanthanam/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22