arcolife

Bangalore · IST

Hi, I’m Archit Sharma.
I build and run distributed systems.

Performance engineering at Red Hat from 2014, blockchain infrastructure since 2018, and now a second brain at Kurv Tech.

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now about work writing open-source connect cv ↗

Building a second brain at Kurv Tech, which I started in 2025.

Alongside it, I work as an infrastructure lead and fractional CTO, through Toptal and on direct contracts.

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Kurv Tech

I started Kurv Tech in 2025. We are building three products that share one idea: software should remember what you were doing and carry it forward.

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Thirteen years of making systems behave.

Archit holds a laptop open and points at the screen while an attendee in a red sweater reads along, in a busy conference hall.
San Jose, June 2018. Walking a co-author of the hybrid-consensus paper through our TrueChain prototype, at the DoraHacks hackathon during Blockchain Connect.

I started in performance and scale engineering at Red Hat (2014–2018), on the Cloud Suite: OpenShift, OpenStack, RHV and Satellite. I wrote Sarjitsu to make sense of SAR data.

Then came startups. I led engineering and consensus R&D for a public blockchain, led engineering and infrastructure for a computer-vision product that diagnoses diabetic retinopathy, and ran site reliability for another public blockchain. Since 2022 I have freelanced through Toptal on DeFi, DePIN and L1 infrastructure.

In 2025 I started Kurv Tech, where I am building a second brain: software that remembers what you read and acts on it. It grew out of private prototypes in the same space that I built from 2021 alongside freelance work.

  • certifiedCKS · CKA · CHFD · RHCE
  • spoke atDevConf · Red Hat Summit · Blockchain Connect · PyCon India
  • wonCERN Webfest ’13 · Docker Hack Day ×2
  • based inBangalore, IST

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The trace

My career as a distributed trace: one span per job. Hover to read the time axis; click a span to see its attributes.

trace archit.career 12 spans 13.4y founderblockchainperformanceML / AIresearch

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Things I have run in production

  1. 01

    Trading infrastructure

    Operated a perpetual-futures exchange: a C++ matching and liquidation engine, order and position management, and market data over WebSockets and Redis Streams on multi-region AWS.

    C++GoECSRedis Streams
  2. 02

    Blockchain networks

    Validators and RPC fleets from testnet to launch: 150+ bare-metal nodes on Monad’s testnet, validator fleets for aPriori, 5 to 100+ validators at CasperLabs, and a hybrid BFT + PoW consensus at TrueChain.

    RustGoSoliditybare metal
  3. 03

    DePIN and the edge

    A storage network scaled from 2K to 5K nodes, and an edge runtime with atomic blue/green OTA updates and per-node telemetry across 100+ machines.

    IPFSerasure codingOTA
  4. 04

    Agents and memory

    An agentic research pipeline: LangGraph orchestration, Neo4j and Qdrant retrieval, a NATS event bus, and tools sandboxed in Firecracker microVMs.

    LangGraphNeo4jQdrantFirecracker
  5. 05

    Performance engineering

    Where it started: scale tests for OpenShift, OpenStack and RHV, KVM block I/O latency analysis, and tooling like Sarjitsu and pbench.

    LinuxKVMperfSAR
  6. 06

    Cost and reliability

    Self-hosted observability that saved io.net $25k a month, WAF and rate-limit defences against DDoS for Velvet Capital, and zero-trust ingress for production fleets.

    FinOpsWAFzero trust

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On the record

Papers & patents

Open source

  • Sarjitsu 2015–18 · Linux sar data → Grafana dashboards · main author (82 commits) · listed in the sysstat FAQ
  • Grafana 2016–17 · 2 merged PRs: nested-type bucket aggregation for the Elasticsearch data source, and a metric-segment fix
  • CNCF BugBash, KubeCon EU ’21 3rd place · 17 merged PRs in four days across Thanos, CRI-O, Chaos Mesh, Buildpacks, SchemaHero, Tinkerbell, OpenEBS and Serverless Workflow
  • Places 2023 · search your own browser history · second-largest contributor: caching and duplicate detection, SessionBuddy import, Docker packaging and CI
  • py-trueconsensus 2018 · the working code behind the TrueChain hybrid-consensus paper
  • DockerComp 2014–15 · distributed computing on Docker containers instead of VMs, for scientific workloads · Docker Global Hack Day Bangalore winner, twice

Every PR and issue →

Talks

Wins & certifications

  • Arbitrum Open House London Buildathon 2026 · 2nd place, Open Category ($20K) · with Capricorn (formerly aPriori), RWA liquidity on Robinhood Chain
  • CNCF BugBash KubeCon EU ’21 · 3rd place · 17 merged PRs across 8 CNCF projects
  • Docker Global Hack Day 2014 and 2015 · Bangalore winner, both years · DockerComp
  • Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) 2022 · CNCF · Linux Foundation credits won at the KubeCon BugBash
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) 2022 · CNCF · BugBash credits
  • Certified Hyperledger Fabric Developer (CHFD) 2022 · Hyperledger · BugBash credits

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Braindumps & musings

41 posts since 2011, from two old blogs now under one roof. The rest are on the map.

  1. GRA FCUK? NAh heXoughts · 2016–2020
  2. Recovering encrypted LVM based partitions, after accidentally overwriting 'em with 'fio'! heXoughts · 2016–2020
  3. performance engineering TILs - part 1 heXoughts · 2016–2020
  4. resizing an xfs partition on a thin provisoned disk in a RHVM env heXoughts · 2016–2020
  5. never go back, but never forget digital sweat · 2011–2017
  6. #noteToSelf - fix MariaDB-selinux related errors (fails to restart after update) heXoughts · 2016–2020

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Say hello

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