Varuni

Current Work

Couchbase

Indexing Team

RISE

Research Mentee - Working under Dr. Seyyedeh Qazale Mirsharif on Personalized Lung Cancer Treatment Prediction using heterogeneous graph models

About Me

I'm an engineer in the index team at Couchbase. I am passionate about distributed systems, ML systems, large scale graphs and GNNs. I also write and make tech comics!

Recent News & Accomplishments

September 14-15, 2025 Spoke at GopherCon India

December 4, 2025 Spoke at GHCI in the AI today and tomorrow track

Speaking Initiatives

2025 MIT URTC GRAPHEME AWARE TOKENIZATION

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June 21, 2025 Women Who Go Bangalore Building an Incremental Index in Go - Concurrency Patterns Learnt and Performance Challenges

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September 14-15, 2025 GopherCon India Fast Authorization Checks with Dynamic Graph Indexing in Go

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September 21, 2025 FOSS United IndiaFOSS Maps, Masala & Missed Buses

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got the audience to laugh and i wear that badge with pride ( with my silence of the lamps joke )

Publications

Polaris: Multi Agentic System for Conversational Enterprise Analytics

Accepted at AAAI-26 (Workshop on Agentic AI Benchmarks and Applications for Enterprise Tasks, Singapore)

GAT - Grapheme Aware Tokenization

Accepted at MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (MIT URTC), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

solo author

Efficient Indexing for Google Zanzibar Based Authorization Systems Using Graph Dynamic-Transitive Closures

Accepted at the 28th International Conference on Advanced Communications Technology, Pyeongchang, South Korea

Exploring caching and indexing mechanisms for Zanzibar based authorization systems

Presented at the 11th international conference on Applied Systems Innovation, Kyoto, Japan

Leveraging Permissioned Blockchain for securing controlled drug prescriptions in India

Presented at the 6th international conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, Dubai

SubGINs - Approximate and Exact Subgraph Matching with GINs

lead mentor

The Ship of Theseus

A space for all my thoughts, musings, quests, deep dives to live. The Ship of Theseus is a metaphor for embracing change while staying true to an underlying essence.

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