Kumar Shivendu — Software Engineer
Hi, I'm Kumar Shivendu. I'm passionate about search, distributed systems, and LLMs. 👨💻 I build Qdrant. It's one of the fastest growing vector databases and world's leading generative AI focused company. Some of our users are Twitter, Quora, Perplexity, Discord, Meesho, and Flipkart. Previously, I used to work at startups like SuperTokens and FamPay — both backed by YC. I also did Google Summer Of Code during my college days, where I built advanced search features for the SWH organization that runs on top of metadata from 300M+ open source repositories spanning 20B+ files (and growing)! I also enjoy helping grow and maintain tech communities for things that I care about. I'm the President of the alumni association of my college (IIT Bhilai). I help with maintaining our alumni community as well as India's largest generative AI group on WhatsApp where some of the best builders and investors of India actively discuss state-of-the-art work in GenAI. Very recently, I joined the PanIIT committee which is an umbrella organization to combine strengths and alumni associations of all the 23 IITs to foster innovation and collaboration. In my free time, I like to do experiments around the cutting edge of vector search, RL, and generative ai. Read https://kshivendu.dev/bio to find some of my side projects 🚢 🦄 I am open to Engineering roles at leading startups from all over the world. Feel free to DM 🚀 Twitter: https://twitter.com/KShivendu_ Github: https://github.com/KShivendu Email: mail@kshivendu.dev ✨ Fun fact: I built my first software product (and taught myself programming) when I was just 13 years old by reverse engineering APIs of a popular government website :D I'm a curious guy who loves meeting awesome people on the internet. Feel free to DM me if I can help you with anything ⚡ Languages: Rust, Python, Javascript (Typescript), Java, Bash, PHP ⚡ Frameworks: Django, React, NextJS, Angular, Express, Flutter, React Native, Bulma, Material ⚡ Machine Learning(ML): Keras, PyTorch, Numpy, Tensorflow, Pandas, Plotly, Matplotlib, OpenCV ⚡ Cloud, DevOps, and others: Docker, Firebase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Celery, AWS, GCP, Figma Keywords: AI consultant, Software Engineer, Rust, Vector Search, Vector DB, Information Retrieval, Recommendations, LLM, Python, Search Engines, Big data, Software Developer, Startup, DevTools.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a strong focus on distributed systems and machine learning.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 4 yrs 2 mos
Skills
- Distributed Systems
- Large Language Models (llm)
- Product Development
- Authentication Protocols
- Event Driven
- Research And Development (r&d)
- Elasticsearch
- Back-end Web Development
- Tensorflow
- Python (programming Language)
Career Highlights
- Built one of the fastest growing vector databases.
- Led multiple enterprise feature developments in authentication.
- Optimized performance for healthcare applications using ML.
Work Experience
Qdrant
Software Engineer - Core Team 🦀 (2 yrs 8 mos)
SuperTokens
Software Engineer - Integrations & Core (1 yr 6 mos)
FamPay
Software Engineer - Platform/Infra team (6 mos)
Google Summer of Code
GSoC Student @ Software Heritage (3 mos)
Logy.AI
Software Engineer (5 mos)
AI Researcher (5 mos)
IIT Mandi
Data Scientist (2 mos)
Education
B.Tech at Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai