Varun Dey
Backend engineer. I like understanding how systems work from the ground up.
Hi, I’m Varun. I build backend systems, and the parts I care about most are the ones nobody sees: what happens between a request arriving and a response leaving, and what breaks when scale or failure shows up. I’m drawn to distributed systems and to taking things apart until I know why they behave the way they do.
Today I work on Smartsheet’s authentication platform, which is new territory for me and a fun one to take apart. Before that I built developer tooling at Hasura and consumer-scale logistics at Blinkit, and I started my career on the frontend at Norton.
That’s what this blog is for: working things out and writing down what I learn.
Outside work I watch football (Visca El Barça) and read. My readlist is on Goodreads.