Varun Mayya's Recent LinkedIn Posts

Career advice for engineers right now is mostly noise. Everyone has an opinion, everyone has a take, and most of it is either obvious or just wrong. That's why I decided to sit down with Mohak Shroff, SVP of Engineering at LinkedIn, to figure out what was really going on. And to my delight, he was direct about thi…

There was a time when I was very young, and I couldn't do anything about government websites. I was just a spectator. But I've worked the last 14 years to have my actions create some impact. So I picked up the phone and got OpenAI involved. India's best builders now get a direct line to public service platforms, an…

Militaries are now using real, AI-powered “spy” cockroaches! A startup called SWARM Biotactics has just built something called a "bio-robotic scout." It’s basically a living cockroach with a tiny “backpack” housing a camera, a mic, a transmitter for communications, and an AI chip for local data processing.

Sam Altman just said training a human child takes more energy than training an AI model. yeah he actually said that. Altman's argument is simple. People complain about how much energy AI uses, but nobody talks about the 20 years of food and energy it takes for a human to become useful. He says if you compare one AI…

Militaries are now using real, AI-powered “spy” cockroaches! A startup called SWARM Biotactics has just built something called a "bio-robotic scout." It’s basically a living cockroach with a tiny “backpack” housing a camera, a mic, a transmitter for communications, and an AI chip for local data processing.

We’ve finally kicked off Build What Moves India, and in this video, we go through exactly how the hackathon will work, what you need to build, and how your project will be judged. The focus is simple: take a public service platform, rethink it from the point of view of an everyday citizen, and build a working proof…