# Vardhan Shorewala

> Berkeley M.E.T.

Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vardhan

Hit me up if you are building something cool!

vardhan@berkeley.edu

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Arkhai
Jan 2024 – Present
Working on post-training, decentralized inference, reranking, and fine-tuning. Hire #1

### Peer Reviewer @ Elsevier
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025
Reviewing research for 5+ IF journals. 
bioinformation, consensus, algorithms, DL.

### Venture Fellow @ Soma Capital
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025
AUM ~$1Bn. Investing in seed and pre-seed.

### Algorithm Developer @ Blockchain at Berkeley
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025
Built dApps, bridging protocols, and smart contracts for Arbitrium, Fifa, Cosmology, and Aptos

### Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Diego, CA
Intern at Amazon STORES (worked as a cashier)

### Student Fellow @ Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Software Developer @ Amazon
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Intern at Amazon SCOT

### Software Developer @ Codebase
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | California, United States
Built scalable full-stack applications with SOTA ML techniques for high-growth startups such as Epic Games, Astics, and Hummingbird.

### Software Engineer @ Alchemy
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | California, United States
Worked on optimizing blockchain interactions, enhancing API performance, and streamlining data consistency across distributed networks.

### Strategy and Operations Consultant @ BLUE ORIGIN
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | California, United States
Conducted market research for Blue Origin, exploring expansion options such as aerospace partnerships and space telecommunications.

### Software Engineer @ Rimble
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | United States
Created ML and scraping pipelines for real-time odds and analysis of high TPS eSport games.

### Research Assistant @ University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Developed tree and density-based clustering models for understanding biophysical properties of brain neurons

### Technical Consultant @ Yash Pakka Limited
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | India
Utilized CAD and EE circuits to build a custom heat-sealing machine and implemented its e-commerce rollout strategy.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) + Business Administration
UC Berkeley Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology (M.E.T.) program

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical Engineering + Computer Science (EECS)
UC Berkeley College of Engineering

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Business Administration and Management, General
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

### International Baccalaureate in General Studies
Dhirubhai Ambani International School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vardhan-shorewala-b85543172

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Last updated: 2026-04-05