Hello, I'm Robert Varadan

I am a Software Engineer and Tech Lead with 5+ years of experience building production software, infrastructure, and AI. I have a proven track record of owning complex projects, improving system performance, and executing on high-impact opportunities. I'm also experienced in token-efficient agentic software and development workflows.

I live in the Raleigh-Durham/Research Triangle, and I am also a husband and father of two kids and I have two bunnies.

Selected portfolio

  • Game Market Atlas (gamemarketatlas.com) — An agentic suite of game market research and analysis tools powered by a token-efficient Gemini Flash summarization, Gemini Embedding, and vectorization pipeline. Frontend is a custom TypeScript/ViteJS + Three.js/WebGPU implementation.
  • QURSE-1-0.2B (Hugging Face, demo) — Qwen Utterance Repetition and Stumble Evaluator, a ~187M-parameter audio classification model built on the Qwen3-ASR-0.6B encoder with a trained detection head to detect repetitions and stumbles in English speech locally via ONNX Runtime.
  • Hopshot: Arenas (itch.io) — Just one of my video games and the Itch.io page. Experimental WebGPU/WASM port so you can run it on (most) browsers. It's pretty fun!

Professional experience

  • Atlassian — Software Engineer, AI Third-Party Aggregation (Apr 2025 – Present). Led cross-functional Confluence onboarding for Jira users, reduced product errors, and built LLM-based error signal triage.
  • Lucid Software — Senior Software Engineer, Group Tech Lead (Jul 2021 – Apr 2025). Mentored 5 junior engineers across TypeScript, Angular, Scala, and MySQL; architected an internal billing support app, built an AWS job system with 732x task throughput, and increased critical test coverage 22x.
  • Brightcove — Software Engineer Intern (Jan 2020 – May 2020). Developed and tested 40+ React and Node.js UI features across multiple repositories.
  • Symbotic — Software Engineer Intern (May 2019 – Aug 2019). Maintained an asynchronous C#/.NET Core environment for testing and deploying real-time warehouse automation software.

Contact

Email:

GitHub · Hugging Face · Itch.io · X.com