Recent01Web · Healthcare
Nishtha Retina Centre
A medical practice website for an eye care centre.
Trust-focused design with clear service information, easy contact flows and a professional presence for patients and fellows.
Next.jsHealthcareWeb Dev
Open for small projects
Building AIsystems, one step at a time.
Hey, I'm Varun Vashisht — a Software Engineer taking on small freelance projects on the side. This site is my resume and portfolio in one.
- 2+
- Years building & shipping
- 999+
- Cups of coffee fuelling it all
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Varun Vashisht
~/software-engineer
India
AIDataCloudWeb
100%
Human driven
∞
Curiosity
About me
My story in a nutshell
I'm a software engineer at a US-based startup - Nuaav. On the side, I freelance — picking up small projects where I can genuinely help.
I started building in college — Travellio and Collabaid taught me a lot (including a healthy respect for my own limits). These days I focus on systems automation, data pipelines and semantic search at work, while building things on the side.
This site is a resume & portfolio in one — a software engineer by day, with small, focused projects on the side.
Honest scoping — I'd rather be upfront about what fits than over-promise.
Simple over clever — reliable, maintainable work that holds up in production.
Open to projects
Small gigs welcome
Timeline
Honest, scoped upfront
Focus areas
AI, data & cloud
Fuel source
Endless coffee
What I do
A few things I can help with
I take on small, well-scoped projects where I can genuinely add value. Not sure if your project fits? Ask.
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Agentic AI & LLMs
Give your product a brain
Agentic AI systems, LLM-powered features, RAG pipelines, chatbots and smart automations stitched straight into your existing product.
Agentic AIRAGAgentsLLMs
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Web Development
Clean, modern & fast
Production-grade websites and web apps built with modern frameworks. Fast, accessible and built to scale.
Next.jsNodeAPI Design
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Systems Design & Consultancy
Help with the plan
Architecture reviews, system design advice and honest technical guidance — for a new product, a scaling problem, or a decision you'd like a second opinion on.
System DesignArchitectureTech Advice
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Cloud & DevOps
Deploy with confidence
CI/CD, infrastructure as code and cloud setup that takes your project from laptop to production without drama.
AWSAzureDockerCI/CD
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Data Engineering
From raw to remarkable
Pipelines, ETL and analytics that turn scattered data into decisions you can actually trust.
PythonSQLPower BIMicrosoft Fabric
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Systems Automation
Eliminate the busywork
Automate repetitive workflows — contract parsing, client onboarding, data routing — so your team focuses on what actually matters.
AutomationPythonWorkflowsIntegration
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Tools I work with
Not a fixed stack — just the tools I'm comfortable with. I'm happy to pick up new ones for a project.
Agentic AI & LLM Integrations92%
Data Engineering & Dashboarding88%
Web Development90%
Cloud & DevOps82%
Systems Design & Consultancy80%
Agentic AI & LLMs
Agentic AIMicrosoft Agent FrameworkClaude CodeRAGLangChainVector DBs
Data Engineering
PythonSQLPower BIMicrosoft FabricETLDashboards
Frontend
Next.jsReactTailwind CSS
Backend
Node.jsFastAPIPostgreSQLRedis
Cloud & DevOps
AWSAzureDockerGitHub ActionsVercelLinux
Everything else
GitFigmaPower BIMicrosoft FabricSystems Automation
+ whatever else the project needs. Always learning.
Selected work
Projects across every domain
Websites, AI systems, data pipelines, automation and startups — organized so you can quickly find what matters to you.
All Work
Everything I've built across web, AI, data, automation and startups.
Recent
Recent02Web · Company
Nuaav
A company website for an engineering solutions firm.
Modern, performant brand home for Nuaav — clear messaging, responsive layout and production-ready deployment.
Next.jsCompany SiteWeb Dev
Recent03Web · Portfolio
Atelier Studio
A visual-first portfolio for an interior design studio.
Clean, gallery-led website built to showcase interior design work beautifully, load fast and feel premium on every device.
Next.jsPortfolioWeb Dev
04Web · Corporate
Novexa Lifesciences
A corporate website for a pharmaceutical lifesciences company.
Corporate website for Novexa Lifesciences — a client build focused on clean design, performance, and brand presence.
Next.jsWebClient
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AI · Enterprise Search
Semantic Search System
Enterprise semantic search over a Dremio data lake.
Built a full-scale semantic search system on top of an existing data lake incompatible with semantic search (Dremio) — integrating AWS services, multi-system plug-and-play with existing solutions, and tenant-level RBAC/ABAC access control.
AWSSemantic SearchRBACDremio
Completed
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Consultancy · AI Platform
Trade Intelligence Platform
AI-powered trade intelligence and compliance platform.
AI consultancy and system design for Novexa Lifesciences — an end-to-end automated trade intelligence platform. Volza API data ingestion into a time-series PostgreSQL pipeline, interactive dashboards with geo and price analytics, a natural-language query engine, demand forecasting and automated compliance screening.
AI ConsultancySystem DesignPythonPostgreSQL
Completed
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Data · Engineering
Fabric Data Pipeline
Data pipeline from ADFS to Cosmos DB for BI dashboards.
Microsoft Fabric data pipeline moving data from ADFS to Cosmos DB for key metrics dashboarding on Power BI.
Microsoft FabricCosmos DBPower BI
Completed
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Automation · Operations
Systems Automation
Automated client onboarding and contract provisioning.
End-to-end automation cutting down manual work — contract parsing and provisioning the right products during client onboarding. Saved 28+ hours weekly.
PythonAutomationSystems
Completed
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AI · Data Pipeline
LLM-Ready Scraping Pipeline
Large-scale web scraping into structured LLM-ready data.
Building a comprehensive scraping pipeline using Firecrawl and AWS Bedrock — processing 5+ websites with 10,000+ pages, forms and PDFs into clean, LLM-ready data.
FirecrawlAWS BedrockPythonLLM
Completed
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ArchivedStartup · Travel
Travellio
A marketplace connecting solo travellers with local trips.
Self-started travel app for solo travellers — arbitraging between local travel agencies and Insta travel pages to host trips, boost local guides, and connect people travelling to the same place. Raised 2Cr funding from college startup incubator.
StartupFull-stackMarketplace
Closed
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ArchivedStartup · EdTech
Collabaid
A research collaboration and student opportunity platform.
Platform connecting researchers and students within universities to discover and work on research papers and projects. Also served small startups looking for college interns and streamlined college placement processes.
StartupFull-stackEdTech
Closed
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Your Project
This slot is empty on purpose — it could be yours. Something small, focused and well-scoped?
Let's talkAIWebData
Research
Research Experience
Academic work from university labs and collaborations, published on arXiv.
Feb 2024 — Feb 2025
Low-Resource Text Augmentation for Bantu Languages
DSSI Lab, University of Pretoria
Proposed a novel framework for low-resource text augmentation for Bantu languages — an attention-based, language-independent architecture that improved sentiment classification by 3–4% over baselines.
- Novel augmentation framework under Prof. Vukosi Marivate
- Attention-based, language-independent design (+3–4% over baseline)
Nov 2023 — Dec 2025
FindMate — Profile Recommendation Application
VIT Chennai
A swipe-based profile recommendation app connecting faculty and students by common interests — powered by a custom hybrid TF-IDF + BERT recommendation engine.
- Hybrid TF-IDF + BERT recommendation system for faculty–student matching
- Improved Silhouette Score by 12.7%; lower Davies-Bouldin Index and intra-cluster distance
The journey
How I got here
From college CSE with AI/ML spec to building startups and shipping production systems — building things along the way.
Software Engineer
CurrentUS-based Startup · 2025 — Present
Working as a software engineer at a US-based startup - Nuaav, building production systems and shipping features at speed.
- Automated client onboarding & provisioning — cut 28+ hrs/week of manual work
- Built a plug-and-play semantic search system across full AWS stack with multi-system integrations
- Microsoft Fabric pipeline: ADFS to Cosmos DB, key metrics on Power BI
Freelance Software Engineer
CurrentIndependent · 2026 — Present
Picking up small freelance projects on the side, alongside my full-time role.
- Atelier Studio — portfolio website for an interior design studio
- Nishtha Retina Centre — medical practice website
- Nuaav company website
- Novexa Lifesciences corporate website
- Novexa Trade Intelligence Platform — AI consultancy & system design
Software Intern
Think Future Technologies · Nov 2023 — Jan 2024
Internship focused on NLP — LangChain integrations, resume data extraction & parsing, and FastAPI microservices for scalable data processing.
- Proposed NLP solutions with LangChain for advanced language model integration
- Implemented resume data extraction and parsing techniques for better information retrieval
- Designed and deployed FastAPI microservices for scalable data parsing
CSE with Specialisation in AI & ML
College · 2021 — 2025
Started building during college — launching Travellio and Collabaid, learning from mistakes and levelling up fast.
- Raised 2Cr funding from college startup incubator for Travellio
- Built Collabaid to connect researchers and students across universities
- Developed strong foundations in AI, ML, data structures, and systems design
Contact
Get in touch
Have a project idea or a systems question you'd like a second opinion on? My inbox is open.