Kumar Shivendu

Hey there. I am Kumar Shivendu 👨‍💻

I ❤️ search, distributed databases and scraping/visualizing data. I'm particularly obsessed with information retrieval, and I've been building and tinkering with search systems for a while:

• Search over 420M+ OSS repos at Software Heritage during college (GSoC).
• Reverse-engineered the architecture and cost of Exa using napkin math
• I'm one of the early engineers of Qdrant and I built distributed systems that power search at billion+ scale for companies like Canva, Meesho, Hubspot, etc, and run on almost a million machines worldwide.

I'm actively researching on ways to unify search and generation and dissecting models to make them more efficient

🔧 Some of my cool blogs:

• Token-Native Storage: Read and Write in the Language Models Already Speak
• Monitoring my life with Grafana, Prometheus, and InfluxDB
• I Reverse-Engineered Exa.ai Infrastructure Cost with Napkin Math

🚀 I've been fortunate to work with top startups and research institutes from all over the world:

• Software Engineer, Core 🦀: Qdrant (Berlin)
• Software Engineer: SuperTokens (YC 20) (San Francisco)
• Software Engineer Intern: FamPay (YC 19) (Bangalore)
• Google Summer of Code: Software Heritage (Paris)
• ML + SDE Intern: Logy.AI (Hyderabad)
• ML Research Intern: IIT Mandi (Mandi)

Judging and Talks 🎤

I'm open to judging and speaking opportunities at reputed hackathons and conferences/meetups. Some of my past talks can be found at talks.kshivendu.dev.

For collaboration or a technical question about search and databases, email mail@kshivendu.dev. I'm also on Twitter and LinkedIn.