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Rohan Varma

San Francisco,CA

Summary

I love building products that drive value and are delightful to use.


I am a hustler and a grinder, down to do whatever it takes to drive the mission forward.


https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohannvarma/

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

CEO & Co-founder

Clarity
02.2024 - Current

Raised $5.3M from Pear VC, Gradient Ventures, Neo

Built an AI-notetaker desktop application with 150+ active paying users

Built Lovable for internal tools - both the infrastructure and AI agent

CTO & Co-Founder

Point B
11.2024 - 02.2024

Raised $4M from Owl Ventures, GSV, CSGF, and more

Built a product in 6 weeks that we launched into 6 pilot schools across the country

Worked with teachers, students, and administrators to understand needs and design products

CTO & Co-Founder

Explo
11.2019 - 09.2024

Raised $16M in funding from YC, Craft Ventures, Felicis, and more. Grew business to $1.5M+ in ARR

Built + architected tech infra and product used by hundreds of thousands of users and 100+ enterprises

Recruited and grew product team to 20 engineers and designers

Worked with customers daily to architect product solutions and close business

Took AI to market in the data visualization space

Senior Software Engineer

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
05.2018 - 11.2019

Tech lead for 10 person product team. Embedded in schools to build tools for teachers

Forward Deployed Engineer

Palantir
05.2017 - 05.2018

Worked with government organizationsto deploy Palantir products to solve problems

Head TA - Intro to Programming

Carnegie Mellon Univesity
01.2014 - 05.2017

Led a team of 50+ TAs to teach a 500+ student course

Education

B.S. - Computer Science

Carnegie Mellon University
05-2017

Tech Stack

Expertise in: System Architecture, Agent Infrastructure, Python, Typescript, Django, Node, React, Heroku, AWS

Timeline

CTO & Co-Founder

Point B
11.2024 - 02.2024

CEO & Co-founder

Clarity
02.2024 - Current

CTO & Co-Founder

Explo
11.2019 - 09.2024

Senior Software Engineer

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
05.2018 - 11.2019

Forward Deployed Engineer

Palantir
05.2017 - 05.2018

Head TA - Intro to Programming

Carnegie Mellon Univesity
01.2014 - 05.2017

B.S. - Computer Science

Carnegie Mellon University
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