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Hi, I’m Archit.
I go by arcolife online. I build and run distributed systems, and I’m building a second brain at Kurv Tech. I live in Bangalore.
now
I started Kurv Tech in 2021. We’re building three products that share one idea: software should remember what you were doing and carry it forward.
- Kenby A memory and research workspace. Follow a thought across notes and saved sources, read the original, and pick up where you left off. The successor to MoaRAG.
- Temmo An agent harness and CLI. Hand it an outcome; it carries the context through to completion.
- Elvs Workers and messaging connectors, starting with Slack and Telegram.
Alongside it, I work as an infrastructure lead and fractional CTO through Toptal.
the path
- 2022–now Toptal · Infrastructure lead and fractional CTO (freelance) DeFi, DePIN and L1 infrastructure, from testnets to launches.
- 2021–now Kurv Tech · Founder Building Kenby, Temmo and Elvs: memory, agents and connectors.
- 2019–2020 CasperLabs · Site reliability engineer Scaled the validator network from 5 to 100+ nodes.
- 2018–2019 Rayd8 · Chief software architect API-first product for diagnosing diabetic retinopathy from retinal scans.
- 2018 TrueChain · R&D consensus lead, head of engineering Co-designed and prototyped a hybrid BFT + PoW consensus at ~100× Ethereum’s TPS.
- 2014–2018 Red Hat · Performance engineering, R&D Scale benchmarks across OpenShift, OpenStack and RHV.
- 2013 CERN openlab · Summer student Built enhancements to the CERN Document Server (CDS).
certifications
- Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Certified Hyperledger Fabric Developer (CHFD)
- RHCE and RHCSA
talks
- From Nakamoto PoW to hybrid consensus
- TrueChain hybrid-consensus prototype
- Analyzing latency of I/O events
- Red Hat Summit
- PyCon India
community
I co-organised Python, Linux, DevOps and Docker meetups in Bangalore, and spoke at PyCon India in 2012 and 2015.
hackathons
- CERN Webfest
- Docker Global Hack Day
- DoraHacks
- PyCon India Devsprint
- DoraHacks at Blockchain Connect
- CNCF BugBash
papers & code
- TrueChain: Highly Performant Decentralized Public Ledger
- Performance & Scale Tuning of Satellite 6.2 and capsules
- QEMU KVM disk I/O: native or threads?
- User collections and query visualizations (CDS)
- Sarjitsu
- pbench
- satperf
- perf-script-postprocessor
elsewhere
Email: archit [at] pm [dot] me
“In my quest for an answer to nature's existence, I wish to be an inter-galactic hitchhiker.”