Varshith H Anilkumar

About

Fifteen years walking down the stack, from signals to the physics of computation.

I started in signals, with a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering, and I have been moving down the stack ever since: a Master of Engineering in Computer Engineering at Boston University, then eleven years building and leading production data science and AI systems, then engineering leadership through a Series B, and now, in two parallel master's programmes, a Master of Science in Applied Neuroscience and a Master of Science in Quantum Technology and Management, the brain and the physics of computation.

The question that organises all of it: Can AI be intimate without being invasive? Whether privacy can be a property of the computing substrate itself, rather than a policy promise layered on top. I pursue that as an independent researcher, alongside my engineering work.

Speaking · Berlin Science Week 2026 · 7 November 2026

Can AI Be Intimate Without Being Invasive?

We confide in AI the way we confide in a friend, but its memory belongs to a company. This talk asks whether chips modeled on the brain could change that.

About the talk

Leadership

Eleven years in tech, most of them leading: end-to-end data science, AI engineering, and the teams that ship them.

Every Health

Founding Engineering Lead

Leads technology, information security and data governance for a regulated European digital-health provider handling special-category health data.

Dryad Networks

Head of Software Engineering & AI

Led software engineering and AI through the company's Series B.

Wayfair · SumUp

Engineering & data science roles

Production ML, payments and commerce systems at scale.

Education

MSc · in progress · part-time

Master of Science in Quantum Technology and Management

University of Sussex

MSc · in progress · part-time

Master of Science in Applied Neuroscience

King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)

ME

Master of Engineering in Computer Engineering

Boston University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

BE

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Mentoring

I mentor early-career engineers through non-profit programmes, helping people who are talented but not yet positioned. I also take a limited number of private clients. Work with me as a mentor