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.
Avyay Varadarajan @avyvar
Get started at https://t.co/082pJ0k2eB If you are an enterprise looking to reduce and/or understand their LLM spend - book a meeting.
Jul 24, 2026 Β· β₯ 11
Avyay Varadarajan @avyvar
To get here, we finetuned an SLM to be benchmark, cost, and cache aware. Using our SLM adds negligible latency - we only use the results for the next query in an agent loop. Blog: https://t.co/qshkC126cr, https://t.co/yQvUvmYPLT Model link: https://t.co/IF6CBOI54b
Jul 24, 2026 Β· β₯ 13
Avyay Varadarajan @avyvar
Using our auto-router isn't the only option - you can describe when you want to use certain models (i.e Fable for planning, GLM 5.2 for implementation) and use a router across your org. These are still cache-aware and will not switch to a cheaper model unless it's worth it. https://t.co/dgiHcYgpDp
Jul 24, 2026 Β· β₯ 10
Founder at dari.devYC F25
Intro paths
Avyay went through Y Combinator (Fall 2025) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Harj Taggar, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran dari.dev's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Avyay can intro founders to dari.dev's investors below.
dari.dev's investors Β· 1
Co-founders at dari.dev
