Vivek Varanasi

I build the software business runs on

Now I do it with AI. Agentic systems that do real work inside your operations — not demos, not pilots that quietly die. Bring me your hardest AI use case and I will make it real. Bring me a product idea and I will help you build something people actually use.

18
enterprises served
16+
years building
20+
AI systems live
Vivek Varanasi
Hands-on CTO
Founder × Builder
McKinsey & CompanyDomino's PizzaLowe's CompaniesTD BankExpress ScriptsSouthern California EdisonAES CorporationHCSCBCBSCareSourceHenry ScheinCommonwealth Care AllianceFastMed Urgent CareMarsh & McLennanClark ConstructionSpace and TimeAldo GroupLincoln FinancialMacom TechnologyInsideViewCA TechnologiesMcKinsey & CompanyDomino's PizzaLowe's CompaniesTD BankExpress ScriptsSouthern California EdisonAES CorporationHCSCBCBSCareSourceHenry ScheinCommonwealth Care AllianceFastMed Urgent CareMarsh & McLennanClark ConstructionSpace and TimeAldo GroupLincoln FinancialMacom TechnologyInsideViewCA Technologies
Building software
My Work

For sixteen years, large companies have handed me the system their business depends on — the one that is too slow, too fragile, or too tangled to fix from the inside. I sit with the people who use it, build the fix myself, and stay until it is running in production.

Services I Offer

System Integrations

Making systems that were never meant to talk to each other work as one — legacy platforms, vendors, and modern cloud services, joined without downtime.

Build Products To Live

From an idea on a whiteboard to something real customers use every day — designed, built, launched, and looked after once it is live.

Agentic AI Applications

AI that does actual work inside a business: reading calls, answering questions, handling the repetitive tasks — running safely on real company data.

Web Applications

Websites and web platforms that carry real traffic and real money — fast, secure, and built to keep working as the business grows.

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Enterprises served
trusted me with core systems
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Years building
and still writing code
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AI systems live
working in real operations
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Always available
when their business needs it
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Faster delivery
for the teams I rebuilt
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Engineers coached
so teams outlast me
What I do

From first conversation to production

I write the code, own the security review, and stay on the pager. However deep the problem goes, that is the range.

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Enterprise AI, deployed

LLM and speech systems that run against live production data under HIPAA and PCI constraints — not demos. Whisper call-centre automation, intent routing, RAG, evaluation harnesses.

ClaudeWhisper / ASRRAGAgentic workflowsEvals
02

APIs & platform architecture

1,400+ production APIs across REST, GraphQL federation, gRPC and legacy SOAP bridges — with the gateways, throttling, and zero-trust security that keep them alive at scale.

AWS API GatewayKongApigeeGraphQLgRPCOAuth 2.0
03

Cloud & data engineering

AWS-native platforms from Terraform up: EKS, Lambda, Redshift, Kinesis, EventBridge. Streaming and CDC pipelines moving tens of millions of records an hour.

AWSTerraformKafkaSnowflakeSparkTalend
04

Products, end to end

Websites, mobile apps, and SaaS platforms built and shipped for startups and mid-market businesses — design, build, deploy, and the operations after launch.

ReactNext.jsReact NativeNodePythonStripe
Why they call

The problems I get called in to solve

When the software a business runs on starts holding that business back, someone has to go in and fix it without stopping the business. That is the job.

Food & Beverage

At dinner rush, orders piled up faster than the system could pass them to the kitchen.

I rebuilt the ordering platform so it stays fast on the busiest night of the year.

Orders now reach the kitchen a third quicker — in every store, at every rush.

Healthcare

Twelve thousand members called every day, and nobody could tell you what they were calling about.

I built an AI assistant that listens to every call, writes the summary, and routes it to the right team.

Staff stopped typing notes and went back to helping people.

Banking

The bank wanted to open its data to partners, but one audit failure would have stopped the programme.

I designed the secure connections and sat with their compliance and risk teams through every review.

Passed the toughest audit in the industry with zero findings.

Retail

Forty systems disagreed about what was in stock, so shoppers were told the wrong thing.

I put one dependable layer over all of them and kept eighteen million products in step.

One honest answer about what is actually on the shelf.

Energy

The utility collected enormous amounts of meter data and could not do anything useful with it.

I turned that firehose into something other companies could safely plug into.

A cost centre became a platform other businesses build on.

Engineering Teams

Every project started from scratch, so delivery dates were guesses and quality was luck.

I introduced an AI-assisted way of working and trained sixty engineers to use it.

Work ships 65% faster, with far fewer problems reaching customers.

Different industries, same pattern: something important was broken, and it had to be fixed while the business kept running.

Field Deployments

Systems that carry patient and member data, where a mistake is not just a bug. Built under HIPAA, with PHI encrypted and audited end to end.

  • Express ScriptsPharmacy benefits layer bridging modern and legacy systems at 99.97% availability
  • HCSCHIPAA-compliant gateway handling 500K+ eligibility checks a day
  • Commonwealth Care AllianceMembership and claims reconciliation, plus the framework behind it
  • FastMed Urgent CarePatient scheduling and intake with field-level PHI encryption
  • Henry Schein
  • CareSource
  • BCBS

Products I've Launched

Not side projects — live products with real customers, built and run end to end.

KiranaBandi

E-commerce

Live

Indian grocery, online

An online Indian grocery store specialising in pulses, staples and household goods — catalogue, cart, payments and fulfilment built for a category with thin margins and heavy SKU counts.

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PK Signature Realty

Real Estate / PropTech

Live

Live MLS search for the Phoenix metro

A real-estate platform for buyers and sellers across Scottsdale, Gilbert, Chandler and the wider Phoenix metro — live IDX/MLS property search with real-time data, advanced filtering, and lead capture wired into the brokerage’s workflow.

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Drugonomics

HealthTech / AI

Live

Pharma Insights AI

An AI-powered intelligence platform delivering analytical capability to the pharmaceutical industry — built for professionals who need defensible, data-driven insight in a heavily regulated market.

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AINickels

FinTech

Live

Cross-border family wealth platform

A wealth platform for families managing money across multiple countries — consolidating accounts, currencies and jurisdictions into a single view.

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FinlyStack

FinTech / SaaS

Building

Financial infrastructure tooling

A financial stack product in active development, applying the same spec-first, API-first engineering discipline used across enterprise engagements.

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NoGadgets

Consumer / Community

Live

A movement, not just a brand

Screen-free play for children — physical activities, collectibles and games placed in high-traffic family locations like malls and restaurants. Includes a community idea feed with 200K+ contributions.

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ShopReturnGifts

E-commerce

Live

Personalized return gifts

An e-commerce platform for customized return gifts serving the Arizona market — sister brand to NoGadgets, covering party and event gifting end to end.

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BookWaterTanker

Marketplace

Live

On-demand water tanker booking

A booking marketplace connecting households and businesses to water tanker suppliers — scheduling, dispatch and delivery tracking for an entirely offline industry.

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VG

Valley GI Consultants

Client Work / Healthcare

Live

Digestive disease specialists, Phoenix

Web presence for a multi-location gastroenterology practice across Glendale and Goodyear, Arizona — provider profiles, services, and appointment scheduling.

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Trajectory

Sixteen years of shipping

2017 — Present

Practice Manager & Principal Engineer

Artha Solutions · Arizona, USA

Deployed into 18 enterprise customers across fintech, healthcare, retail, energy and Web3. Own discovery through build, production and handover. Lead cross-functional teams while staying hands-on in architecture and code.

  • Introduced spec-driven development across 8 delivery squads — 65% faster cycle time, 44% lower defect escape rate
  • Trained 60+ client engineers on spec-to-code workflows across 4 engagements
  • Migrated a monolithic Java application to microservices, cutting infrastructure cost 80%
  • Rebuilt onboarding and promotion frameworks, reducing annual attrition 30%
2023 — Present

Applied AI — Production Deployments

Across client engagements · Regulated enterprises

20+ AI applications shipped into live customer operations — LLM, speech and agentic workflows built against real production data under HIPAA and PCI controls.

  • Whisper-powered call-centre assistant summarising 12,000+ member calls daily against live PHI
  • Built the AI CoE playbook: steering-file templates, spec-to-code workflow, evaluation and review gates
  • Dynamics 365 Health Accelerator across 3 hospital systems with Dataverse-to-FHIR sync
Earlier

Engineering — APIs & Automation

CA Technologies (Broadcom) · InsideView (Demandbase) · India

Built the public API platform at InsideView including a two-tier throttling engine and usage, quota and cost-metering framework. At CA Technologies, developed, tested and supported CA Wiki and built automation frameworks for CA ITCM and CA Spectrum.

  • Designed short-term and long-term API throttling with quota and cost metering
  • Auto-generated API documentation via Swagger; integrated Salesforce and Scribe
  • Built end-to-end automation framework for CA ITCM web console and REST services
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