Paul Kuruvilla
CTO at CodeCrafters
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Kuruvilla is a hands-on engineering leader and CTO with 12 years of experience building reliable, readable, and maintainable software from San Francisco. He leads CodeCrafters, a platform that challenges developers to reimplement core tools like Git and Redis, blending deep systems thinking with practical teaching. Previously he scaled teams and products at Clerky and Shuttl, and has consulted for companies such as Segment and Doist, bringing both individual craft and managerial rigor. Paul emphasizes code quality and developer productivity, and he enjoys translating complex systems into teachable exercises—evident in his work on developer tooling and Git-based design collaboration. Trained as a mechanical engineer at IIT Ropar, he pairs analytical problem-solving with continuous learning across new technologies.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
Hindi, Malayalam, English, Tamil
Github Skills (83)
python10
ai10
artificial-intelligence10
counting10
openai10
autonomous-agents9
upc9
ean139
datamatrix9
shell8
warp8
graphicsmagick8
linux8
bash8
apk8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hellovigoss/hellovigoss.github.io
Feb 2015 - Aug 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 78 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 7 months
hellovigoss/libevent-book-zh-cn
Aug 2022 - Feb 2025
Nick's libevent manual - translate in zh-cn
Contributions:4 PRs, 57 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 6 months
zh-cnlibeventnicktranslationtranslate
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