Vardhan Dharnidharka is a venture capital investor at Stellaris Venture Partners who spent 15+ years as an AI/ML engineer and engineering leader at companies like Lyft, ClickUp, and Bloomberg before moving into venture capital, making him unusually technical for a VC with deep expertise in production AI systems and infrastructure challenges like memory optimization and latency trade-offs. He has developed specific, practitioner-level theories about how AI/ML work is evolving from feature engineering to context engineering in the foundation model era, and focuses on investing in agentic AI for complex professional services like accounting while actively hosting technical events and serving as a hands-on technical advisor to founders.