Sai Varaprasad

Hi, I’m Sai a founder-turned Product & Cloud Engineering leader who loves turning blank-canvas ideas into revenue-positive, production-grade platforms. I’ve worn two hats since day one: shaping market-backed product strategy and building the AWS cloud solutions that keep it running at 99.99 % uptime. What gets me up in the morning: • Launching AI products that pay for themselves, Brightcone.ai hit cash flow + in six months after release. • Slashing latency and cost at the same time, cut inference time 30 % and trimmed monthly spend 22 % by re-architecting micro-services on Fargate. • Coaching scrappy teams into high-leverage operators, two direct reports now lead their own pods at InpharmD. A few numbers I’m proud of, • $200 K pre-seed raised and a Y-Combinator interview for Brightcone.ai. • 4-week MVP → 3 enterprise pilots at DEUS Innovations after rolling out an LLM-powered proof of concept. • 25 % lift in feature adoption by swapping guess-work road-mapping for metric-driven North-Star goals. How I work: • Product lens: Jobs-to-Be-Done discovery, RICE prioritization, A/B testing, and ruthless scope control. • Cloud lens: IaC with Terraform, serverless on AWS (Lambda, Fargate), and secure CI/CD via GitHub Actions. • People lens: servant leadership, weekly 1:1s, and transparent OKRs so everyone sees the scoreboard. Outside the office: You’ll find me mentoring Duke MEM students, publishing blogs, or logging weekend miles on beautiful Trails. Whether you need a GTM sparring partner, a cloud architecture gut-check, or just a new pickleball opponent, drop me a DM or connect.