About

Hi, I’m Varad Rane — a software engineer based in Newark, NJ, currently pursuing my graduate studies at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

I have a passion for building scalable, efficient, and user-centric solutions. My work spans full-stack web development, systems programming, research, and infrastructure engineering. I’ve shipped production software at scale, built open-source tools, published academic research, and maintain my own self-hosted homelab.

What I do

Right now I’m working as a Teaching Assistant at NJIT for both undergraduate (C++) and graduate (Operating Systems) courses, helping students work through complex systems concepts and debug tricky code.

Before grad school, I spent two years at Kotak Securities in Mumbai as a Software Engineer, where I worked on everything from authentication systems and API performance to .NET application modernization and internal tooling.

Skills & Technologies

My daily stack includes TypeScript, .NET, Angular, Python, Docker, and SQL — but I’m comfortable picking up whatever the job requires. I’ve also done work in machine learning (TensorFlow, PyTorch) and hardware tinkering (Arduino).

Projects

I build things on the side. Some highlights:

• Stream Chat Organizer — A Chrome extension to improve live stream chat readability
• Surface Crack Severity Detection — Research published in Springer’s ICACIT 2022 proceedings
• Multi-Location HomeLab — A self-hosted, multi-machine homelab with encrypted networking and Docker Swarm

You can find more on my portfolio or GitHub.

This blog

I write about projects I’ve built, engineering challenges I’ve solved, and things I find genuinely interesting. No fluff — just honest writeups.

If something resonates or you want to chat, reach me at [email protected].