Varun BachalliAI & Full-Stack
Currently at Flask AI – open to new opportunities

Engineer.
Builder.
Maker.

Applied AI and full-stack engineer focused on system architecture and shipping reliable code, from early prototypes to production systems.

Varun Bachalli
WorkCareer Timeline
Flask AI Pvt Ltd

Flask AI Pvt Ltd

Employment
Nov 2024 - Present
Head of AI · Bangalore, India

Chempanion — A chat-based agentic AI system integrating LLMs with chemistry-specific tools for chemical synthesis and drug discovery.

FlaskAI — An AI-enabled Electronic Lab Notebook that helps chemists record, manage, and retrieve experimental data — transforming how teams handle scientific workflows including inventory, compound management, and analytics.

  • Built molecule and text extraction pipelines from PDFs and PPTs, enabling structure search across 1M molecules with ~95% accuracy and RAG over 10k documents per user.
  • Defined the agent architecture and exposed 6 predictive chemistry tools (retrosynthesis, metabolic stability) as LLM actions for multi-step agentic workflows.
  • Designed and implemented FastAPI services for auth (Supertokens), document ingestion, and chat-based interactions.
  • Built smart inventory management and AI-powered features for the ELN, including real-time stock tracking and intelligent data organisation.
Chempanion:Next.jsPostgreSQL (Prisma)RDKitLexical.devFastAPITortoise ORMPydantic AIAWS (EC2, ECS, Bedrock, SageMaker, RDS, OpenSearch)
FlaskAI:Next.jsPostgreSQL (Prisma)RDKitLexical.devTortoise ORM
Pathfinder Products Corp

Pathfinder Products Corp

Part-time
Feb 2025 - Present
Full Stack Developer · Remote (USA)

Vocation HQ — A B2B platform that enables LLM-powered interviews to extract deep insights about employees and candidates.

Vocation — A B2C product that helps users progress in their career by navigating job changes with AI-guided support.

  • Sole engineer, owned end-to-end implementation of authentication, user onboarding, and all full-stack workflows in direct collaboration with the CEO.
  • Defined the LLM interaction model for guided interviews, enabling scalable behavioral insight extraction used by 100+ employees and candidates across 3 pilot companies.
  • Designed and owned an LLM powered Manager Insights and Assistant system that extracted behavioral signals and delivered actionable coaching and growth guidance.
Vocation HQ:Next.jsShadcnClaude SDKPostgreSQL (Prisma)Render
Vocation:Next.jsPythonFlaskSQLAlchemyRender
Iztri Services Pvt Ltd

Iztri Services Pvt Ltd

Co-founded
May 2024 - Nov 2024
Technical Co-Founder · Bangalore, India

Iztri is an on-demand laundry platform with 100k+ successful orders and 24-hour doorstep delivery.

  • Owned the mobile product architecture, delivering Android and iOS apps with payments, maps, OTP-authentication, and real time order tracking.
  • Designed and built Google Apps Script-based ops system for order intake, payment reconciliation, and customer updates, achieving 95% adherence to 24-hour SLAs.
Tools:React NativeFirebaseGoogle Apps ScriptRazorpay SDKGoogle Maps SDK
Realize Design LLC

Realize Design LLC

Employment
Feb 2021 - May 2024
Head of AI & Systems · Remote (USA)

Realize Design is a 3D AR mobile app with ~2M downloads enabling room scanning and real-time furniture placement.

  • Architected and built on-device AR computer vision systems deployed to ~2M users, achieving 24-60 FPS real-time inference (YOLO, MobileNet, ResNet).
  • Led the design of computational geometry and 3D interaction systems for AR room creation.
  • Built on-device a constraint-based placement engine and GNN-powered recommendations for AI Room design.
Tools:UnitySwiftC#C++
EducationAcademic Background
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule

RWTH Aachen University

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule
2016 - 2019
M.Sc. Automation Engineering (Automatisierungstechnik) · Aachen, Germany

GPA: 1.8 (German scale 1-5, 1 is best) · Language of instruction: German

Focus: Control Systems, Machine Learning, Embedded Systems, Numerical Optimization, Robotics

Thesis: Robust Collision Avoidance Trajectory Planning using Multi-Stage Model Predictive Control

Selected Training:
  • Self-Driving Lab, Institute for Automotive Engineering (IKA): sensor fusion, motion planning, vehicle dynamics; C++ / ADTF with SIL and HIL testing
  • Model Predictive Control Workshop, Institute of Automatic Control (IRT): real-time linear and nonlinear MPC using ACADO and MATLAB
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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

2012 - 2016
B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering (Maschinenbau) · Karlsruhe, Germany

GPA: 2.6 (German scale 1-5, 1 is best) · Language of instruction: English and German

Focus: Automotive Engineering with a specialization in Gearbox systems

Thesis: Development of a Workpiece Carrier for Smart Manufacturing in an Automated Production Line

SkillsTechnical Toolkit
Programming Languages
PythonC++C#JavaTypeScriptJavaScript
AI / ML
PyTorchTensorFlowOpenCVRDKitComputer VisionHugging FaceOllama
Product & Frontend
Next.jsReactReact NativeUnity
Backend & Infra
FastAPIFlaskPostgreSQLAWSFirebaseCoolifyDockerMakefiles
Languages
English (Native)Kannada (Native)German (Fluent – TestDaF TDN 5)