Varun Turlapati
Managing Partner at Astute Crew LLC
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolVarun Turlapati is a managing partner and technical operator with nine years of experience bridging software engineering and early-stage venture investing, based in Oakland, CA. He invests $25k–$150k into neurotech and medtech device startups while advising founders on fundraising, technology strategy, hiring, and due diligence. Previously he led engineering teams and critical infrastructure projects at companies like Roblox, Portworx, and Walmart Global Tech, shipping microservices, storage automation, and API platforms in Go, Python, and distributed systems. Varun combines hands-on architecture and mentoring—managing 30+ engineers at scale—with venture diligence work assessing biotech and medtech business models. He founded consultancy Astute Crew to productize due diligence and build internal tools, reflecting a knack for turning technical complexity into investable narratives. Outside the deal room he’s comfortable moving between legacy-code rewrites and cloud-native design, a useful mix for hardware-focused startups needing realistic engineering roadmaps.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS Electrical and Computer Engineering, MS Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois ChicagoB.E Electronics and Communication Engineering, B.E Electronics and Communication Engineering at M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology
Hindi, Telugu, Marathi, Kannada, English, Spanish, Chinese
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Github Skills (66)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
varunturlapati/varunturlapati.github.io
Feb 2022 - Sep 2023
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Contributions:4 PRs, 40 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
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varunturlapati/torpedo
Sep 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:35 pushes, 8 branches in 7 months
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