Adhvik Kanagala
Software Engineer at Cursor
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdhvik Kanagala is a systems-minded software engineer with five years of experience building distributed databases and infrastructure, currently contributing to Cursor after work on Pinecone’s vector database. He has deep hands-on experience rewriting core database components, scaling write paths, implementing garbage collection over blob storage and Postgres, and shipping encryption-at-rest with customer-managed keys. Past roles include building GPU job scheduling frameworks, migrating critical services to serverless at Meta/WhatsApp Business, and improving data platform observability at Duolingo—demonstrating a knack for improving reliability and developer velocity. A Carnegie Mellon CS graduate and former TA for distributed systems, he pairs strong academic foundations with practical operational experience. Notably, his background spans both low-level storage and higher-level data tooling, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective on system performance and maintainability.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Concentration in Computer Systems, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Concentration in Computer Systems at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (11)
cargo9
package-manager8
rust8
jupyter-notebook8
python7
ai6
semantic-search6
llm5
vector-database4
code-analysis2
static-analysis2
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
addykan/Resume
Mar 2021 - Sep 2022
Resume
Contributions:31 commits, 2 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 6 months
addykan/Resetbot-for-Twitter
Aug 2020 - Nov 2021
Generalized script that contains multiple twitter functions using the API
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
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