About
Raman Varma is a computer science graduate from UC Berkeley with machine learning experience at Sky Computing, BAIR labs, Square, and Coursera, plus prior software engineering roles at Illumio. He is now co-founder and CEO of Kestrel AI, which develops AI agents for platform engineering teams.
Founder at Kestrel AIYC F25
Intro paths
YC
Raman 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 Pete Koomen, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Kestrel AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Raman can intro founders to Kestrel AI's investors below.
Kestrel AI's investors · 1
Experience
- Kestrel AI (YC F25)Co-founder & CEOcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Foundation CapitalBuild Accelerator Foundercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- IllumioSoftware Engineer II2025Sunnyvale, California, United States
- IllumioSoftware Engineer2024Sunnyvale, California, United States
- Berkeley RISE LabMachine Learning Researcher2024Berkeley, California, United States
- CourseraMachine Learning Engineer2023San Francisco Bay Area
- IllumioSoftware Engineer2023Sunnyvale, California, United States
- SquareMachine Learning Engineer2023San Francisco Bay Area
- Computer Science MentorsSenior Mentor (CS 61A)2022 — 2023Berkeley, California, United States
- Computer Science MentorsAssociate Mentor (CS 61A)2022Berkeley, California, United States
- Computer Science MentorsJunior Mentor (CS 61A)2021Berkeley, California, United States
- UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)Course Staff (CS 61A)2022 — 2023Berkeley, California, United States
- UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)Academic Intern (CS 61A)2022Berkeley, California, United States
- UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)Security Researcher2022Berkeley, California, United States
- UC Berkeley Division of Computing, Data Science, and SocietyCourse Staff (Data 8)2022Berkeley, California, United States
Education
- University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's degree, Computer Science & Data Science
Skills & more
Go1C++1Kubernetes1IstioCiliumKafka StreamsApache IcebergJavaApache CassandraNeo4jPythonPyTorch
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Apache KafkaDistributed SystemsgRPCScalaDeep LearningNLPLLMsVector DatabasesSQLRedisParallel ProgrammingContainer OrchestrationLanguages English · Russian
From Raman's professional profile.
Same school
Also attended University of California, Berkeley987
Byron DeeterPartner at Bessemer Venture PartnersTrevor OelschigInvestment Team at General CatalystBrendan Bulik-SullivanInvestor at GV (Google Ventures)Glen AndersonPartner at Monta Vista CapitalAnthony LinHead of Intel Capital, Corporate Vice President at Intel CapitalScott ShawChief of Staff at Intel Capital
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Shared employers
Also worked at Berkeley RISE Lab11
Assaf ArakiInvestment Director at Intel CapitalSriharsha GuduguntlaHyperbound at Roble VenturesYersultan SaparInvestor at FEBE VenturesMatt TurkScout at Deep ChecksKoki MashitaScout at HOF CapitalDhruv MangtaniFounder at Notebook Labs
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Also worked at Coursera20
Pierre-Eric LeiboviciInvestor at DaphniJessica NealOperating Partner at TCVSourabh BajajEngineering Advisor at Modern TechnicalCarmen ChangPartner, Head of Asia at New Enterprise Associates (NEA)Rob HutterFounder, Managing Partner at Learn CapitalAndrew NgManaging General Partner at AI Fund
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Also worked at Computer Science Mentors2
Also worked at UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)12
Yersultan SaparInvestor at FEBE VenturesYuka IkarashiInvestor at E14 FundTommy HangInvestor at ArchetypeWeikeng ChenResearch Partner at L2 Iterative Ventures (L2IV)Arvind VivekanandanScout at LvlUp VenturesHarvey HuFounder at Altrina
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