2x founder

Raman Varma

Founder & CEO @ Kestrel AI (YC F25) | Prev. Berkeley CS, ML Research @ Sky Lab

Founder

Kestrel AI· Fall 2025 🇺🇸 Berkeley, California, United States

in LinkedIn

2025Founder· Foundation Capital

Founder · since 2025

Company

Foundation Capital

Role

Build Accelerator Founder

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

San Francisco Bay Area

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Kestrel AI

AI Agents for Platform Engineering

Fall 2025

Experience

Career

Kestrel AI (YC F25)
Founder
Founder & CEO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – Present
2025
Foundation Capital
Founder
Build Accelerator Founder · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – Present
2025
Illumio
Software Engineer II · Sunnyvale, California, United States · 2025
2025
Illumio
Software Engineer · Sunnyvale, California, United States · 2024
2024
Berkeley RISE Lab
Machine Learning Researcher · Berkeley, California, United States · 2024
2024
Coursera
Machine Learning Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2023
2023
Illumio
Software Engineer · Sunnyvale, California, United States · 2023
2023
Square
Machine Learning Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2023
2023
Computer Science Mentors
Senior Mentor (CS 61A) · Berkeley, California, United States · 2022 – 2023
2022
Computer Science Mentors
Associate Mentor (CS 61A) · Berkeley, California, United States · 2022
2022
Computer Science Mentors
Junior Mentor (CS 61A) · Berkeley, California, United States · 2021
2021
UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Course Staff (CS 61A) · Berkeley, California, United States · 2022 – 2023
2022
UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Academic Intern (CS 61A) · Berkeley, California, United States · 2022
2022
UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Security Researcher · Berkeley, California, United States · 2022
2022
UC Berkeley Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society
Course Staff (Data 8) · Berkeley, California, United States · 2022
2022

Bio

Co-founder & CEO. Prev: CS @ Berkeley; ML @ Sky Computing / BAIR labs, Square, Coursera; SWE @ Illumio. Building Kestrel – AI agents for platform engineering teams.