Varun Dayanand Midakanatti

Varun Dayanand Midakanatti has a diverse work experience in various roles and companies. Varun worked as a Software Engineer at Phosphorus Cybersecurity Inc. starting in 2023. Prior to that, they served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at USC Viterbi School of Engineering from August 2022 to December 2022, supporting Dr. Satyanaraya Raghavachary for the course CSCI585 - Database Systems. At USC Core Center for Nano Imaging, they worked as a Full Stack Developer from September 2021 to December 2022, building and maintaining web applications for the nano imaging lab. In 2022, they gained experience as a Software Development Engineer Intern at Amazon, where they optimized the memory footprint for a Java class object. Additionally, they worked as a Student Technical Assistant at USC Information Technology Services (ITS) from July 2021 to December 2021. Their earlier experience includes working as a UI developer for the 3PAR team in HPE Infosight at Hewlett Packard Enterprise from July 2019 to April 2021 and as an intern in HPE 3PAR Storage CPE from January 2019 to July 2019, where they developed a comprehensive test coverage tool for automation.

Varun Dayanand Midakanatti completed their Bachelor of Engineering in Information Science/Studies at Sri Jayachamarajendra College Of Engineering from 2015 to 2019. Varun then pursued their Master of Science in Computer Science at the University of Southern California from 2021 to 2022. In addition to their formal education, Varun obtained several certifications. In December 2020, they acquired the Defensive Programmer: Advanced Concepts certification from Skillsoft. Varun also obtained the Secure Implementation & Coding certification from the same institution in December 2020. Moreover, Varun earned a certificate for completing the course Building RESTful APIs with Node.js and Express from LinkedIn Learning in July 2020. Lastly, they obtained the Python Essential Training certificate from LinkedIn Learning in July 2020.