Varand builds thesystems behindthe screen.
Senior backend software engineer with 9+ years shipping distributed systems, APIs and infrastructure that stay up when traffic doesn't. Currently engineering automation at Zapier — and yes, this site is served from my own hardware.
Engineered for
production.
A decade of building the unglamorous-but-critical layer: the APIs, pipelines and infrastructure everything else depends on.
Backend Systems
Distributed services, REST & GraphQL APIs and event-driven architectures designed for scale, observability and graceful failure.
Cloud & DevOps
CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration and infrastructure-as-code. From bare metal to multi-region cloud.
Security Engineering
Security+ certified. Auth systems, role-based access control, audits and hardening — security baked in, not bolted on.
Data & Performance
Schema design, query optimization, caching layers and the dark art of making p99 latency boring.
AI & Automation
LLM integrations, scraping pipelines and ML experiments — automation that does real work, not demos.
Full-Stack (When Needed)
Comfortable shipping the whole slice. Modern React frontends that do justice to the backend underneath.
A decade in the trenches.
From first commit to senior engineer — every stop made the systems (and me) more resilient.
Backend Software Engineer @ S.A.S
You're reading this
off my hardware.
No managed platform, no serverless magic. This page was rendered by a machine I racked, wired and hardened myself — sitting a few feet from my desk.
- Bare metal, my rack, my rules — full stack ownership from BIOS to browser.
- Hardened edge — TLS 1.3 termination, reverse proxy, rate limiting.
- Monitored like prod — because to me, it is prod.
Things I hack on
after hours.
Open-source experiments in AI, security and automation.
