About
Avyay Varadarajan studied computer science at Caltech and has worked as a software engineer at Uber and in machine learning roles at the Lakers, before founding dari.dev.
Founder at dari.devYC F25
Intro paths
YC
Avyay went through Y Combinator (Fall 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Harj Taggar, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran dari.dev's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Avyay can intro founders to dari.dev's investors below.
dari.dev's investors · 1
Co-founders at dari.dev
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Benjamin HongFounder
Experience
- dari.dev (YC F25)Co-founder, CEOcurrent2025 — present
- Los Angeles LakersData & Software2023 — 2025
- Pantheon AISoftware2024
- Second SpectrumMachine Learning2023
- UberSoftware2022
- Stanford UniversityMachine Learning Researcher2019 — 2021Stanford, California, United States
- Big League AdvanceMachine Learning2021
Skills & more
Apache Thrift1Apache Kafka1Rust (Programming Language)1Go (Programming Language)Swift (Programming Language)KerasTensorFlowAmazon Web Services (AWS)Python (Programming Language)Machine LearningSQL
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Avyay Varadarajan?
- Avyay Varadarajan studied computer science at Caltech and has worked as a software engineer at Uber and in machine learning roles at the Lakers, before founding dari.dev.
- Where does Avyay Varadarajan work?
- Avyay Varadarajan is Founder of dari.dev.
- What companies did Avyay Varadarajan found?
- Avyay Varadarajan founded dari.dev.
- Where did Avyay Varadarajan go to school?
- Avyay Varadarajan studied at Caltech (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science); Mission San Jose High School (High School Diploma, N/A).
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