# Varun Sharma

> Software Engineer

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/varunsharma

Software Engineer with a keen interest in large scale systems, distributed systems, infrastructure and recommendation/search systems.

Specialties: large scale systems/distributed systems/infrastructure

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2025 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Paxos
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Software Engineer @ Airbnb
Jan 2017 – Jan 2022

### Staff Software Engineer @ Google [X]
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Self driving cars

### Software Engineer @ Pinterest
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016
Led several projects on core infrastructure such as
- migrating pinterest's feed infrastructure on top of HBase
- hardening HBase for online serving
- crawl pipelines
- large scale static data serving
- low latency retrieval using rocksdb

Gave 6 external tech talks, open sourced 1 project and authored two blog posts.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 | Mountain View, California
Display Campaign Optimizer (Mar 2010-present)
* Developing automated ad targeting for Display Campaign Optimizer
* Click/Conversion predictions in core serving

Mobile Search (Jul 2008-Mar 2010)
* Developed user interface for Google Images/Image Search for iphone/android

Computer Vision (20 % project)
* Developed a fast Image Similarity algorithm for Google Images

### Software Engineering Intern @ Yahoo Inc
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007
Yahoo Research
* Developed algorithms around Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) for extracting price, title, description from product web pages

### Software Engineering Intern @ Cornell University
Jan 2006 – Jan 2006
Cayuga - Stateful Pub/Sub system
* Implemented dynamic indexing of predicates speeding up query processing of stock streams by upto 3 times.


## Education
### BTech in Computer Science & Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/varun-sharma-a21b1418
- Website: http://adwords.blogspot.com/2010/10/performance-at-scale-on-google-display.html
- Website: http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/01/popular-images-on-google-image-search.html
- Website: http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-image-search-results-for-feature.html

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Last updated: 2026-04-05