AI systems
Code Buddy
A code-review platform I architected at Qualcomm, connecting issue detection, candidate fixes, and validation for 12,000+ engineers across 4,000+ repositories.
M.S. Computer Science · NYU Courant
I build AI systems that review code, use tools, and run on personal devices. At Qualcomm, I architected Code Buddy and helped scale it to 12,000+ engineers across 4,000+ repositories.
Previously at Qualcomm and AMD.
SELECTED WORK
AI systems
A code-review platform I architected at Qualcomm, connecting issue detection, candidate fixes, and validation for 12,000+ engineers across 4,000+ repositories.
AI systems
A driving-assistant prototype combining camera-based driver monitoring, voice, gestures, and local retrieval through seven coordinated components.
AI systems
An offline Android assistant that checks keywords, cached answers, and local tools before invoking a quantized language model through Qualcomm Genie.
Trust in the Hiring Funnel · team win. Sweesh lets people and institutions vouch for each other.
Qualcomm SparQ · solo entry among 166 teams
Qualcomm SparQ · presented to the Qualcomm CTO
Standard Chartered · Jenkins to Azure DevOps migration
Mixed-reality research · TU Braunschweig
RECOMMENDATIONS

Director, Engineering · Qualcomm
“Varun is an exceptionally talented engineer with a clear vision for the future of AI, and I wish him nothing but the best in his future endeavors.”

Senior Manager · AMD
“Varun consistently showcased excellent programming skills and a good knack for problem-solving.”
2026–28 / NOW
M.S. Computer Science · 2026–2028 expected
2024–26
Code Buddy, AI agents, retrieval, and developer tooling.
2024
Parallel C++ trace processing and performance engineering.
2023
SC Pay deployment pipelines and Azure DevOps migration.
2022–23
DAAD scholarship. Mixed-reality research with HoloLens.
2022
AR galleries, spatial anchors, and museum interactions.
2020–24
Computer science. Apps, games, and student-led labs.
WRITING
2026-07-29 · 6 MIN READ
When you talk to a voice agent, the hard part is not transcription or synthesis. The hard part is what happens when you interrupt it mid-sentence, or pause to think and t…
2026-07-28 · 6 MIN READ
Claude can read a webpage. It can run a script. It can browse a repository. What it cannot do, out of the box, is watch a video. You paste a YouTube link and it has to ei…
BEYOND THE TERMINAL
At BITS Pilani, I led a 40-member AR/VR team, helped establish student labs, and organized a VR Experience Zone at Oasis.
Labs, leadership & life