Kestrel AI
AI Agents for Platform Engineering
About Kestrel AI
Kestrel is the AI automation layer for platform engineering teams.
Platform teams use Kestrel to automate incident response, cloud provisioning, CI/CD, security, and developer requests across their stack.
Kestrel turns natural-language prompts into deterministic, production-ready workflows with 25+ integrations, 140+ pre-built actions, and support for custom HTTP and webhook actions.
Developer-first, with a CLI, Python SDK, and MCP server to manage workflows from where platform teams already work.
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$500K
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Founders
Raman Varma
Co-founder & CEO. Prev: CS @ Berkeley; ML @ Sky Computing / BAIR labs, Square, Coursera; SWE @ Illumio. Building Kestrel – AI agents for platform engineering teams.
LinkedInEvan Chopra
Security researcher with a Master's in Computer Science (Signal Protocol focus); previously founding engineer on Illumio's Kubernetes Security team.
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.