About

Varun Maudgalya is a Health AI professional at Apple, with a passion for extending human life by 10+ years. With over 8 years of relevant experience, Varun has worked with Tom Gruber and the rest of Siri's founding team to ideate, rapidly prototype, pitch, and ship next-generation artificial intelligence features for Siri and the Apple ecosystem. He has designed, developed, and productized several research projects in collaboration with partnering organizations across the company, and has presented to audiences of 1000+ people, with results that had visibility at the SVP level. Varun has also participated as a technical advisor on the AI/ML M&A panel. Prior to his current role, Varun worked at PayPal as a Software Engineer and Software Engineering Intern, where he prototyped a machine learning solution to enable personalized experiences and significantly reduced development overhead by building developer tools and SDKs. He also reduced feature development time by 85% via developing backend infrastructure, enabling productization of several new features. Varun holds a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has a strong technical skill set in AI, ML, Research Scientist, Software Engineer, Backend, infra, Android, and product management.