Varun Khare
CEO & Co-Founder at NimbleEdge
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolVarun Khare is a founder-CEO and applied AI engineer with a decade of experience building on-device, privacy-first intelligence—currently leading NimbleEdge to run quantized LLMs and speech pipelines entirely offline. He bridges top-tier research (UC Berkeley, Max Planck) and productisation, turning innovations like tokenizer batching and Sparse Transformers into an open-source stack (github.com/NimbleEdge/deliteAI) for real-time, session-aware mobile AI. Previously he led federated learning efforts at OpenMined, shipping peer-to-peer, secure aggregation and SMPC tooling for on-device ML. Varun’s background spans deep learning, distributed systems and computer vision, including peta-byte scale connectomics and monocular 3D reconstruction, which informs his focus on decentralized inference, kernels and developer platforms. Based in San Francisco, he combines academic rigor with hands-on engineering to make low-latency, private AI practical across smartphones, wearables and sensors.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpurhigher education, higher education at Delhi Public School Bhopal
English, Hindi
Github Skills (117)
python10
deep-learning10
gpu10
secure-computation10
recommender-system10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
federated-learning10
cryptography10
edge-computing10
privacy-enhancing-technologies10
pandas9
numpy9
browser9
centerline9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
vkkhare/KotlinSyft
Jan 2020 - Aug 2021
The official Syft worker for Android, built in Kotlin
Contributions:10 releases, 248 pushes, 64 branches in 1 year 7 months
androidworkerkotlinbuilt-insyft
vkkhare/word_problem_solver
Nov 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push in 11 months
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