
Varun Biju
Head of Delivery
Bangalore · IST (UTC+5:30)
Zethic is the day job. A handful of outside engagements each year fill the rest of my calendar.
I started in Deloitte’s PMO, working a $25M change pipeline. Missed process steps had real downstream consequences, and most of what I know about running a delivery org I learnt there.
Then I joined Zethic Technologies as their first PM hire and built the delivery operations from scratch. I wrote the playbooks the team now runs on, owned PM hiring and onboarding, and migrated the org from paid SaaS onto self-hosted FOSS where the math worked out.
Where I think the PM role is going: a 1-PM + 5-engineer setup running AI in the loop will out-ship a 3-PM + 10-engineer one. The PMs who keep their jobs will be the ones who drive the model, not the ones who review its output. Half of my consulting work is preparing orgs for this transition.
Experience
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Toolkit
Self-hosted FOSS when the project is mature enough to trust. Paid SaaS otherwise.
Tools and Skills
- Tool: Plane
- Tool: n8n
- Tool: Notion
- Tool: Figma
- Tool: Jira
- Tool: ClickUp
- Tool: Miro
- Tool: Google Workspace
- Tool: Obsidian
- Tool: GitHub
- Tool: Claude
- Tool: ChatGPT
- Tool: Outline
- Tool: Metabase
- Tool: Coolify
- Tool: TwentyCRM
- Tool: Uptime Kuma
- Tool: Vaultwarden
- Tool: Appsmith
- Tool: Dozzle
- Skill: PMO Design
- Skill: AI Tooling
- Skill: Sprint Management
- Skill: Process Audit
- Skill: Stakeholder Mgmt
- Skill: DevOps Delivery
- Skill: Knowledge Mgmt
- Skill: Team Ops
- Skill: UX Collaboration
- Skill: Data & Reporting
Achievements
Latest writing
Why I stopped waiting on the tech lead for deploymentsEvery dev deploy at our company went through one person checking servers by hand for free capacity. I found Coolify on a Reddit thread, standardized us on Docker Compose, and cut setup from a day and a half to about two hours. That was the first piece of taking over devops and deployment for the whole company. It now runs 200+ containers across 8+ servers, including my own.