Varun Nair

I'm a Solutions Architect with over a decade of experience in the telecommunications and connectivity domain. Over the years I've moved between roles — researcher, business analyst, consultant, solution designer, pre-sales lead, DevOps engineer, and hands-on developer. The thread connecting all of them is a preference for being close to the work rather than directing it from a distance.

What drives me is the full product lifecycle: the design conversation, writing the code, shipping it, and keeping it healthy in production. I think of this as having "skin in the game" — the kind of involvement that makes better decisions possible because you can't ignore the consequences of them.

My core technical background is Java (Spring Boot, microservices), cloud infrastructure on AWS, and the operational side of telecom systems: network provisioning, orchestration, assurance, and the standards — TMF, 3GPP, MEF — that sit underneath them. More recently I've been spending time with Generative AI and exploring what agentic approaches can realistically do for network automation.

I did my M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Telecommunications & Sensing Systems) at TU Delft, which is also how I ended up in the Netherlands. Before that, a B.Tech in Electronics & Communications from Delhi College of Engineering, and some early-career time at Reliance Jio in Mumbai.

Outside work

I read a lot — history, geopolitics, technology writing, science fiction. The Three-Body Problem remains a favourite. For balance: hiking, cycling, tennis, and the occasional swim.