वरुण महाजन
SYS.00 / IDENTITY
वरुण महाजन

VARUN
MAHAJAN

Co-founder & CTO, Avuvo AI — selectively taking Fractional CTO & AI advisory engagements.

23YRSexperience
₹30,000Crloans sanctioned
$1.5MARRbuilt as founder
100K+users served
AWSGoogle CloudAzureGoogle Cloud HeroCertified Scrum ProfessionalLinkedIn Top Voice 2026
SYS.02 / SELECTED WORK

Five thresholds. Each one a company, a product, a fire walked through.

Head of AI & Technology · acting CISO · 2025 — 2026 · Basic Home Loan

Designed and built single-handedly: instant credit assessment, property evaluation, APF tracking and lender matching over text, voice and video in 30+ Indian languages including Hinglish. Trained on 600K call transcripts and 2M+ minutes of advisor conversations.

₹30,000 Cr
loans sanctioned
300K+
customer profiles
30+
languages
Read the launch

Co-founder & CTO · sole developer · 2024 — present · Avuvo AI

A personal AI chief-of-staff that acts, not just answers. Multi-channel across WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, web and voice, with persistent memory, a cron automation engine, browser automation and 40+ tools behind approval-gated control. Live in private alpha.

98.2%
LongMemEval recall@10
40+
agent tools
6
channels
BYOK
every model
Visit NiyraRead the benchmark report

CEO & Founder · 2020 — 2024

Founded and scaled an AI-powered cloud certification platform from ~$40K to $1.5M ARR in ten months, raising $500K. Grew to 75,000+ learners on personalised paths, an authorised training partner for AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

$40K→$1.5M
ARR in 10 months
75K+
learners
$500K
raised

Co-founder & CTO · present

An AI-first fleet intelligence platform — live GPS, video telematics, fuel and cargo intelligence, EV/CAN analytics and an automation engine — replacing five point solutions with one control tower. Enterprise-grade, deployed across 12+ countries.

50K+
vehicles monitored
12+
countries
99.9%
uptime
Visit MaticX

Founder · present

An operating system for the company-of-one: a chief-of-staff agent that decomposes a goal into work across nine AI departments, with humans approving only the decisions that matter. The frontier of what one founder can ship.

9
AI departments
1
founder
leverage
Visit Orcheo
SYS.03 / OPEN SOURCE

Most of my work lives in private repos. These don’t.

SYS.04 / WRITING

Notes from the fire — shipping, scaling, and the craft of AI.

SYS.05 / THE LONG BURN

Twenty-three years, one continuous line.

  1. 2003

    Network Engineer

    Where it started — Beyond Tele Services, wiring the plumbing of the internet.

  2. 2010

    Commercial leadership, UK & US

    STK / Santok (UK) and BLU Products (US) — learning to sell and scale, not just build.

  3. 2013

    Solutions Architect

    Globe Internet — IoT, monolith-to-microservices migrations, AWS cost optimisation.

  4. 2018

    Cloud Solution Architect

    Pravika — multi-cloud architecture: +40% performance, −25% cost, security consulting.

  5. 2020

    Founded QwikSkills

    CEO & Founder — $40K → $1.5M ARR in 10 months, 75K learners, $500K raised.

  6. 2024

    Indya AI Labs → Niyra

    Solo UK venture; conceived Niyra, the personal AI chief-of-staff.

  7. 2025

    Built HOM-i

    Head of AI & Tech at Basic Home Loan — India’s first AI home-loan assistant, ₹30,000 Cr sanctioned. Acting CISO.

  8. 2026

    Co-founded Avuvo AI

    Took Niyra full-time to build and commercialise it — the present chapter.

SYS.06 / HOW I CAN HELP

Strategy and hands-on delivery, in the same person.

01

Fractional CTO

Own the technical roadmap and ship it with a small specialist team. Strategy plus hands-on delivery — I design the machine and build it.

02

AI Advisory

LLMs, agentic systems and voice-first AI, taken from prototype to production. Where AI actually moves a number, and where it does not.

03

Cloud & Security Leadership

Multi-cloud architecture, migration and CISO-level governance. GCP Professional Cloud Architect; 23 years keeping systems fast, cheap and safe.

Selectively taking engagements — contract or full-time.
SYS.07 / CONTACT

The next door is open.

Building something that needs a technical founder’s hands, or a CTO who has walked through this fire before? Let’s talk.

Or grab time directly