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Varun Potti

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About Me

I'm a student interested in systems, interfaces, and developer tooling. I enjoy building fast, interactive software and experimenting with unusual ideas.

Over the past few years I've worked on projects ranging from web applications to internal tools used by startups, along with a number of half-finished experiments, simulations, and prototypes.

I'm especially interested in projects that involve difficult engineering problems, thoughtful interaction design, or new ways of working with information.

Projects

Reader
Creator

Reader was a full-stack blogging platform focused on collaborative publishing and personalized content discovery. It featured real-time co-authoring, RSS aggregation, and a custom recommendation engine combining content-based and collaborative filtering. Despite its feature set, it efficiently served a few hundred users on a single t2.micro instance.

FleetCo-creator

Fleet was a tool I built during my time at Dimension. It focused on improving Rust build times by replacing the default linker, aggressively caching build artifacts, and using RAM disks to speed up incremental compilation. After launch, it quickly gained traction and reached over 2000 stars on GitHub within 3 days. It has over 12000 downloads on crates.io and some of the improvements we made have been adopted into Cargo itself.

TwidgeCreator

Twidge was a productivity tool I built with Rust, React and Tauri. It was designed to be non intrusive and help users capture their thoughts and ideas quickly without disrupting their flow. Twidge has more than 200+ stars on Github

VoltContributor

Volt was an experimental package management tool for JavaScript. Upto 30x faster installation of dependencies using pre-flattened dependency trees. I mainly worked on fixing bugs and making the code cross platform.

Lemonsqueezy.rs was a Rust client for the Lemonsqueezy API. It was designed to be easy to use and provide a simple interface for interacting with the API. I built it to help me integrate Lemonsqueezy into my projects more easily. It has over 4000 downloads on crates.io and has been listed as a recommended client in the Lemonsqueezy documentation.

create-rspc-appCo-Creator

create-rspc-app was a CLI tool for creating new rspc projects. I built it with Oscar Beaumont to help increase the adoption of the PRRTT (Prisma, Rust, React, Typescript, Tauri) stack. It has over 4000 downloads on crates.io.

Achievements

Academic

I got an All India Rank of 2223 out of ~2.5 lakh candidates who qualified for the examination.

I secured 99.501%ile in JEE Mains 2026, which corresponds to an All India Rank of 8070 out of ~16 lakh candidates.

Non Academic

I've worked on freelance projects ranging from small websites to internal tools for startups, often focusing on performance, tooling, and developer experience.

I build open source projects to explore new ideas, experiment with systems, and learn by building. Some of these projects have gained traction and are used by developers worldwide. The largest being fleet.rs which has over 2000 stars on GitHub.

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