[1] Varuhas attended high school at Scots College, Wellington, graduating in 1999.
[2] He studied at the Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Law, graduating in 2004 with an LLB Honours, also completing a BA in Economics that year.
[3] Upon graduation, Varuhas commenced work as a law clerk to Justice O'Regan before returning to faculty as an Assistant Lecturer in 2006.
[3] He completed an LLM at University College London on Commonwealth Scholarship in 2008, winning the Derby/Bryce Prize in Law for best results in final examinations across all University of London law schools.
[3] Before taking up his current appointments, Varuhas was previously a senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales.