Varun Talwar
About Varun Talwar
Varun Talwar is the Co-Founder of Tetrate and previously served as the Founding Product Manager for gRPC and Istio at Google.
Company
Varun Talwar is the Co-Founder of Tetrate, a company focused on service mesh solutions for enterprise environments. Tetrate specializes in providing infrastructure tools that improve the management, security, and observability of microservices. Tetrate has made significant contributions to the open-source community, including projects such as Envoy and Istio.
Title
Varun Talwar holds the title of Co-Founder at Tetrate, a position he has leveraged to drive the company's mission of advancing service mesh technologies. His role involves strategic planning, product development, and community engagement to help enterprises adopt and manage their microservices architecture effectively.
Education and Expertise
Varun Talwar's educational background includes a degree in Computer Engineering (B.Engg.) from the Delhi Institute of Technology, an MS in Computer Science from the Singapore-MIT Alliance at the National University of Singapore, and a Product Management Program from the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business. His expertise spans service mesh, microservices architecture, and product management.
Background
Before co-founding Tetrate, Varun Talwar worked at Google as the Founding Product Manager for gRPC and Istio from 2014 to 2018. Prior to that, he held various roles at YouTube, including Partner Product Manager for YouTube Live and Lead Technical Account Manager for YouTube Partnerships in Asia. His career also includes positions at Google as a Technical Account Manager, ILOG as an Associate Technical Account Manager, and Methdos Corporation as a Member of Technical Staff.
Achievements
Varun Talwar has co-authored the book 'Istio: Up and Running,' providing a guide to microservices management with Istio. He has delivered keynote speeches, including at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, and holds multiple patents related to service mesh and microservices architecture. He has received the 'Innovator of the Year' award from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in 2020. Additionally, he actively mentors startups through the Google Launchpad Accelerator program and has been featured in a documentary about the Envoy open source project.