Dens Sumesh
Backend Engineer at Amazon
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDens Sumesh is a backend engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of software experience spanning startups and large tech environments. He co-founded Debatev, building a high-traffic searchable evidence index (20k+ users, 675k+ views) using Elasticsearch and AWS, and later served as a founding engineer at Trieve before its acquisition by Mintlify. His work blends production backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and satellite systems software—he led radio comms and ADCS commissioning for ASU’s Interplanetary Initiative. Currently at Mintlify and interning with Amazon, Dens is comfortable shipping scalable services and iterating quickly in both startup and enterprise contexts. He pairs entrepreneurial product instincts with hands-on expertise in search, distributed systems, and embedded/space-grade algorithm engineering. Notably, his background in tutoring and competitive debate informs a structured, evidence-driven approach to problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityBASIS Peoria
English, Spanish
Github Skills (77)
vector-search10
postgresql10
actix-web10
retrieval-augmented-generation10
crawler10
copilot10
embedding10
markdown10
solidjs10
webscraping10
ai10
rust10
contentlayer10
search-engine10
artificial-intelligence10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
densumesh/debatev-parsers
Dec 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
devflowinc/vault-search
Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
A semantic and full text search engine UI written in Astro and SolidJS
Contributions:21 reviews, 66 PRs, 106 pushes in 2 months
aiastroqdrantqdrant-vector-databasesearch
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