Summary
Varun Gadiraju is a seasoned AI and partnerships leader based in Austin, with a decade of delivering AI solutions across public sector, IoT/edge, and enterprise workloads. As Head of AI & LLM Partnerships at Sonar, he drives global GenAI solutions strategy and scales partner ecosystems, drawing on prior GTM and sales leadership at AWS and Intel. Earlier at Intel, he led AI/IoT partner programs, securing integration of Intel silicon and OpenVINO in partner solutions and co-developing products with OEMs and SIs, growing the business by $40M+ ARR with partners like Bosch, Siemens, and Cubic. His background spans ML engineering, product management, solution architecture, and an MS in Computer Science with AI from UT Austin and a JD, enabling him to translate complex AI concepts into trusted, compliant deployments for federal and commercial customers. He started in Computer Vision and Edge AI and has broadened to NLP, agentic workloads, model customization, and automation, now focusing on turning 0→1 ideas into scalable, multi-market programs.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at University of Oregon
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence at The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Oregon State University
Doctor of Law (JD), Doctor of Law (JD) at The University of Texas School of Law