About

Arjun Variar is a highly skilled and experienced Staff Machine Learning Engineer currently working at kalepa. With over 10 years of relevant experience in the field, he has a proven track record of building intelligent products that empower businesses and improve customer experiences. Arjun is a fast learner, always curious and in search of ways to improve himself and the world. He specializes in data analysis, machine learning algorithms, and scripting. His technical skills include ML, AI, search, and integration. Arjun has worked for several companies in the past, including airtel, where he served as a Principal Machine Learning Engineer. At airtel, he built the product and team that powers the Voicebot engine on the MyAirtel app in 7 Indian languages, including code-mixed speech, which processes 500k inferences per day. He also researched and deployed an end-to-end OCR engine to help with new user acquisitions at Airtel, which processes 1.6m docs/day and ranked 6th at ICDAR word recognition challenge. Additionally, he built the work-orchestration engine that powers the customer support queries on mail/social media for Airtel, which processes 50k emails/day and is built on k8, temporal.io. Arjun also hired and led a team of 9 engineers during his time at Airtel. Arjun is also a co-founder of authme, a company that was acquired by Airtel in September 2018. At authme, he helped co-found and solve customer support issues. Callup AI, one of the products of authme, helps businesses answer repeat customer questions on email, chat, and phone calls. It is built for vernacular languages and less integration time. Additionally, Fintech OCR, another product of authme, has an end-to-end OCR pipeline built for Indian financial documents. It saves 90% manual efforts and is used for processing KYC docs, bank/credit card/loan statements, and mark sheets, among others. Arjun holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Computer Science and Chemistry from bits (Birla Institute of Technology and Science).