Varun Batra
Co-Founder at SpiceGems
- Role
- Co-founder at Spicegems
- Location
- Jaipur, RJ, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Varun Batra
I am a Director and Co-Founder of SpiceTech IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd.(SpiceGems). We successfully bootstrapped our company from Kota, growing to serve over active customers worldwide.
Experience
Co-founder
Apr 2020 — Present · Jaipur, IN
In June, 2015, we started walking on a path of Shopify Apps Development. It was not a well-traveled road and hence, resources were nil! In Kota, a 3rd tier city - what wasn\'t?This is my journey so far as a CTO- This needed a hands-on approach- Developed Framework for Shopify App Development - In PHP- Hired Engineers (Degree holders) and taught them PHP- Converted pieces of codes in Node- Hired a self-taught Node Developer without a Degree- Hired Engineers (Degree holders) and taught them Node- Hand over various problems of PHP to LUA (OpenResty)- Hired PHP and Node Developers - These were self-taught and excellent- Resolved various MySQL-related issues- Hired MySQL Consultant- Hired Engineers and now they are MySQL Developers- Further converted - Moved some pieces of codes in Go- Scaled apps to hits per second now - which includes database query as well- Engineers are now Team Leads- Hired More Developers and Put them under Team leads.As Founders (Me and Ankit), we are trying to make our company a good place to work. So far, we have done the following- Working Hours are 7.5 hours- There is a 5-days work week- Payscale has been upgraded 3 times in the past 5 years- We are having teaching focus leadership.
Education
Kurukshetra University
BE, Electronics and Communication
2005 — 2009
Skills
- Ajax
- Go
- IT Recruitment
- Programming
- Web Consultancy
- Jquery
- Web Applications
- Symfony
- Python
- Scrum
- Varnish
- Databases
- Web Services
- Test Driven Development
- Lean Startup
- Nginx
- Ruby on Rails
- Open Source
- Mvc
- Coffeescript
- Cms
- Ruby
- Mysql
- Yii
- Agile Project Management
- Laravel
- Bdd
- Smarty
- Dojo
- Requirements Analysis
- Cloud Computing
- Agile Methodologies
- E-Commerce Consulting
- Web Development
- SEO
- Mootools
- Crm
- Javascript
- Solr
- Oop
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