Hi. My name is Varun Ved. @vved123.

Present:

I graduated from CSU Sacramento in 2017 with a degree in Computer Science. I currently work at Zillow Group, where my responsbilities are a backend engineer on the lead quality team. I work on insuring that we eliminate spam leads, and develop a system to identify high quality leads. My academic passions are around data science, and I hope to further my education to grow and develop in the field beyond what I've learned on my own.

Past:

Before joining full time I worked as a contractor at Zillow Group. I was on the API team for our Premier Agent mobile product, I also spent the summer of 2016 interning there.

My other main project while I was in school was Data Science @ Sac State, where I was the founder and an officer. Our goal is to bring together Sac State students who are interested in data science to learn more about different technologies and tools, and make some really cool projects.

I'm worked as a Fellow at Impact Venture Capital, a VC here in Sacramento. Our goal is to grow the tech scene within the region and invest in exciting companies that have real impact.

I previously co-founded AirQuail, startup changing the way we interact with air quality, we won $100k of funding from Lab360, but decided to not drop out of school to contine working on the startup.

Previously I interned at Lumo BodyTech a wearable startup in Palo Alto, where I worked across the stack in testing and development.

I've also interned at Symsoft Solutions, doing software development and data mining, as well as Signata Corp doing software development and testing.

Independent Education:

I'm a firm beliver that the best education happens outside the classroom. Becuase our school has little to no coursework in data science related classes, I've spent time taking machine learning courses online as well as diving into useful frameworks for data analysis such as numpy, scikit-learn, matplotlib, scipy, pandas, spark, postgreSQL, d3.js, R, and of course python.

Contact:

Please feel free to reach out to me on any social channel (linkedin, twitter, github) Or via email.