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Varun Bhandary

Varun Bhandary

Resident Solutions Architect — Data & AI

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London, England
Joined May 2026
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Data platform and solutions architecture: Varun works as a customer-facing solutions architect focused on data engineering, lakehouse platform technologies, and Data & AI architecture, most recently at Databricks and previously at AstraZeneca and Pollinate. databricks
Graph and knowledge-graph advocate: He has repeatedly engaged with graph technologies—talking about graph problems in visualization and presenting on knowledge-graph efforts for life-sciences use cases. neo4j+1
Open-source tooling author and maintainer: Varun is the author/maintainer behind SchemaX (schemax), an open-source, Git-friendly schema management project with a VS Code extension and Python SDK/CLI aimed at Databricks Unity Catalog workflows. github+2
Cross-industry experience in enterprise data engineering: His career spans consulting and industry roles (Cognizant, Pollinate, AstraZeneca) and platform/forward-deployed work at Databricks, indicating a mix of implementation, architecture, and platform enablement experience. neo4j

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Writing

ASTRAZENECA. Knowledge Graphs Powering a Fast-moving Global Life Sciences Organisation.

February 1, 2024

Presentation on AstraZeneca's initiatives around knowledge graphs for life sciences, outlining challenges, a knowledge graph service plan, and applications across drug discovery and clinical research.

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Simplifying Data Visualization: 5-Minute Interview with Varun Bhandary

December 1, 2020

A short interview discussing Varun's experience in data visualization, how many visualization problems map to graphs, and his introduction to Neo4j.

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Hobbies

Active on Twitter discussing data engineering, graphs, and tech events. nitter