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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.

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. Post ↗

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 kenby.ai · in development 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 temmo.run · in development An agent harness and CLI. Hand it an outcome; it carries the context through to completion.
  • Elvs elvs.run · placeholder Workers and messaging connectors, starting with Slack and Telegram.

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

the path

  1. 2022–now Toptal · Infrastructure lead and fractional CTO (freelance) DeFi, DePIN and L1 infrastructure, from testnets to launches.
  2. 2021–now Kurv Tech · Founder Building Kenby, Temmo and Elvs: memory, agents and connectors.
  3. 2019–2020 CasperLabs · Site reliability engineer Scaled the validator network from 5 to 100+ nodes.
  4. 2018–2019 Rayd8 · Chief software architect API-first product for diagnosing diabetic retinopathy from retinal scans.
  5. 2018 TrueChain · R&D consensus lead, head of engineering Co-designed and prototyped a hybrid BFT + PoW consensus at ~100× Ethereum’s TPS.
  6. 2014–2018 Red Hat · Performance engineering, R&D Scale benchmarks across OpenShift, OpenStack and RHV.
  7. 2013 CERN openlab · Summer student Built enhancements to the CERN Document Server (CDS).

See it as a trace → · Read the CV →

certifications

  • Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) 2022 · CNCF
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) 2022 · CNCF
  • Certified Hyperledger Fabric Developer (CHFD) 2022 · Hyperledger
  • RHCE and RHCSA Red Hat

talks

community

I co-organised Python, Linux, DevOps and Docker meetups in Bangalore, and spoke at PyCon India in 2012 and 2015.

hackathons

  • CERN Webfest 2013 · Switzerland · winner, data visualisation
  • Docker Global Hack Day 2014 and 2015 · Bangalore · state winner twice
  • DoraHacks 2014 · China, remote · runner-up
  • PyCon India Devsprint 2015 · Bangalore
  • DoraHacks at Blockchain Connect 2018 · San Jose · demoed the TrueChain prototype
  • CNCF BugBash KubeCon ’21 · top 3

papers & code

elsewhere

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“In my quest for an answer to nature's existence, I wish to be an inter-galactic hitchhiker.”

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