AI & DS undergrad · GSoC mentor & Contributor · Open source contributor · Cloud Native Mysore organiser
selected as 1 of 1,272 Google Summer of Code contributors from 130+ countries in 2025
won a national level hackathon against 55 teams.
2026 __ AI Student Researcher @Dubai CS Society
Selected globally as one of 249 student researchers
(~17%acceptance rate) under Summer Institute of Science,Technology and
Engineering Reserach in collab with Dubai CS Society
2026 ── GSoC Mentor @ AboutCode
reviewing PRs, enforcing 90%+ test coverage,
guiding contributors through architecture decisions.
2026 ── HackOlympic — 55 teams
AgriPredict AI. crop yield prediction + CNN disease detection.
built end-to-end in 24 hours.
2025 ── GSoC Contributor @ AboutCode / scancode.io
LocalFileSystem storage backend. −40% remote-fetch dependency.
production Python, enterprise environments.
2025 ── Kubernetes Contributor
production code merged into kubernetes/kubernetes
by core maintainers.
2025 ── Harvard ACONF Delegate
technology, global policy & entrepreneurship panels.
now ── CNCF Mysore Chapter Organiser
growing cloud-native adoption locally.
AgriPredict AI — Python · FastAPI · React · Docker · CNN
ML-powered smart farming. crop yield prediction, plant disease detection from photos, automated recommendations for Indian farmers. sub-second inference. won HackOlympic 2026.
UPI Fraud Detection — Python · Scikit-learn · feature engineering
custom festive-period feature flag. 78.7% accuracy on imbalanced data. sub-10ms latency. built to prevent ₹1,200Cr in potential losses. Checkout my research paper and poster on this :)
languages = ["Python", "Go", "C++", "Java", "C"]
infra = ["Kubernetes", "Docker", "Prometheus", "gRPC","Grafana"]
ml = ["Pytorch", "Scikit-learn", "Model training", "Neural nets"]
cloud = ["GCP", "AWS"]
databases = ["PostgreSQL", "MongoDB", "SQLite"]→ Essential ML concepts explained with math
→ Beginner's Docker — navigating your first container
→ varshaun.hashnode.dev
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