Varshith Rao
Co‑Founder & CMO at Xbattery; ML/NLP researcher
Hyderabad, India
Joined March 2026
Summary
Early-career machine learning engineer with hands-on computer vision and NLP experience. Early roles and internship work (Teqsense, BoMoTix) involved building image content moderation models, pose‑estimation, object detection and chatbot/analytics projects. github+1
Progressed into research-focused engineering positions at QuillBot, advancing from Research Engineer to Senior Research Engineer and then Lead Research Engineer between 2020 and 2024, indicating a multi‑year focus on research engineering roles. rocketreach+1
Startup founder and operator: co‑founded Xbattery in 2024 and serves as Co‑Founder and CMO; involved with a deep‑tech team building BharatBMS (high‑voltage battery management systems) and participating in early fundraising and commercialization efforts. inc42+2
Publishes educational machine learning writing and maintains a public code/profile presence (personal website and GitHub), indicating ongoing public-facing technical communication and code sharing. github+1
Work
Education
Writing
KNN: Instance based Learning
December 1, 2017Blog post explaining instance‑based learning algorithms (K‑Nearest Neighbors) and how they construct hypotheses from training instances.
vvrai.wordpress.comWhat is Machine Learning and how Does it work?
November 1, 2017Introductory blog post explaining basics of machine learning and an overview of deep learning concepts.
vvrai.wordpress.comDECESION TREES
November 1, 2017Blog tutorial describing how decision trees make decisions and methods to validate them.
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