Raj Varkala
Founder at Valmi
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Top SchoolRaj Varkala is a founder-engineer with six years of formal experience and a long track record of shipping consumer hits—his Regaltusk games have reached over 30 million users with zero marketing spend. He currently builds Valmi, an outcome-based billing and payments infrastructure for AI agents, and has released valmi-activation, an open-source reverse-ETL that cut a customer’s SaaS costs by an estimated 70%. Raj combines deep technical roots from an IIT Guwahati computer science degree and IIIT-H AI certification with an MBA from Chicago Booth, bridging product, data infrastructure, and go-to-market strategy. Previously he led engineering at RudderStack and contributed pro bono to educational tech through Class Space, signaling a mix of enterprise and social impact work. He’s pragmatic about cost-efficient data stacks (Iceberg, Minio, Trino, Airbyte, dbt) and enjoys turning operational complexity into measurable business outcomes. Based in Hyderabad, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with hands-on engineering and a bias for open-source leverage.
6 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Finance & Strategy, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Finance & Strategy at The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessAdvanced Certification in Artifical Intelligence and Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Certification in Artifical Intelligence and Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
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Github Skills (56)
customer-data-platform10
dagster10
cdp10
bigquery10
rudderstack10
data-collection10
event-tracking10
snowflake10
airbyte10
data-warehouse10
data-synchronization10
customer-data10
data-loss-prevention10
security10
etl10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
valmi-io/valmi-activation
Mar 2023 - May 2024
⚡ valmi.io reverse ETL (data activation) is the open source ( OSS ) data activation platform to load data from warehouses into Webhooks and SaaS tools like Klaviyo, Facebook Ads, Salesforce, Braze etc. Valmi.io Customer Data Platform (CDP) helps track and ingest user activity events from websites, shopify, serverside events. https://cloud.valmi.io
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 13 PRs in 1 year 2 months
airbytecdpcomposable-cdpdagsterdbt
valmi-io/valmi_dbt_source_transform
Mar 2023 - Jan 2024
Contributions:49 PRs, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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