Raman Varma
Co-founder & CEO at Kestrel AI (YC F25)
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolRaman Varma is a software engineer and entrepreneur with five years of experience combining systems, security, and machine learning into product-focused engineering. As Co-founder & CEO of Kestrel AI (YC F25) and founder of Foundation Capital’s Build Accelerator, he blends hands-on technical leadership with early-stage startup building in the Bay Area. His background spans production engineering roles at Illumio and research stints at Berkeley RISE Lab, Square, and Coursera, giving him a rare mix of applied ML research and secure systems development. A UC Berkeley CS + Data Science alum, Raman has served extensively as course staff and mentor, signaling a commitment to teaching and technical clarity. He favors shipping reliable, secure infrastructure and has repeatedly moved research ideas toward production-grade systems. Colleagues note his knack for translating deep technical concepts into pragmatic product decisions under rapid timelines.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science & Data Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science & Data Science at University of California, Berkeley
English, Russian
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Github Skills (23)
openai-api10
function-call10
chatgpt10
llm10
api-documentation10
api10
mtls7
network-traffic6
java6
telemetry5
cilium5
kubernetes4
operator4
istio3
jupyterhub2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ramanv0/CapitalGuard
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:66 commits, 58 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 4 months
ramanv0/gorilla
Jan 2024 - Mar 2024
Gorilla: An API store for LLMs
Contributions:5 PRs, 77 pushes, 11 branches in 1 month
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