Summary
Vijay Varada is a mechatronics engineer and serial entrepreneur who founded Fracktal Works at 19 and has spent 11 years making industrial-grade 3D printing accessible across Medicine, Automotive, Aerospace, Architecture and education. As CEO he blends hands-on engineering, product design, and creative storytelling to deliver additive manufacturing solutions that work with high-performance materials. A passionate open-hardware advocate, he has won Hackaday Prizes and led a pioneering Antarctic expedition with Robert Swan to demonstrate a 3D-printable wind turbine for remote, renewable power. Vijay’s background in robotics and design—co-founding a design studio and leading Robocon teams—gives him rare depth across mechanics, electronics and user-focused aesthetics. He’s also an author and TEDx speaker who channels adventurous curiosity into pragmatic, socially minded technology like assistive devices for the visually impaired. Based in Bengaluru, he combines startup grit with a global, sustainability-driven vision for engineering.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Bachelor's degree Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at Manipal Institute of Technology
10+2, 10+2 at Ivy League Academy, Hyderabad
Hindi, English