Varun Sahni

Computer Engineering at Purdue, class of ’28

I build backend systems, and lately the hardware underneath them. I’m an undergraduate researcher in Purdue’s CompSi group, working on RISC-V vector cores and ML accelerators. I keep things simple on purpose.

This summer I was an engineer at Paasa (YC S24), where I built services for the trading platform, an execution layer that saved the ops team 200+ hours a week, and their first FIX engine. Before that, I spent high school starting things: a health startup, a symposium for 90+ schools, and a programming contest about speed.

work

CompSi, Purdue undergraduate researcher 2026 Paasa software engineer intern 2026 CortX co-founder 2022 The Shri Ram School head of ICT 2023

things i made

Flux SSE for serverless Bun bun-sqlite-cache 1K+ downloads npm CS61CPU 5-stage RISC-V Logisim Crypt Hunt 1.5M requests Workers KageMod 23K downloads Java all projects →

writing

Putting the serverless in server-sent events blog A lightweight CNN for GI disorder detection IEEE 2026
A paper bowl of the spiciest buldak noodles, covered in dark chili sauce, with chopsticks
The spiciest buldak, at Berkeley
A cardboard box with two buttons and a blue LCD reading Fri 17:44, A=cycle, B=done
A cardboard medicine dispenser
A laptop showing the Minecraft end poem on a starry screen
Beating Minecraft, ten years in
The sun setting over a campus street, framed by trees and a brick residence hall
Sunset at Purdue
The words life is good and a smiley face written in dark sand
Life is good

favorites

Listening to
checking…
Essay
The Grug Brained Developer
Album
Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
Movie
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Games
Red Dead Redemption 2, Minecraft
Food
Biryani