Russell Sullivan
Founder & CEO at Kuhiro
Cupertino, California, United States
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Top SchoolRussell Sullivan is a founder and CEO with ~15 years of hands-on engineering and 20 years of programming experience, specializing in architecting high-performance, mixed-genre datastores and edge-first serverless systems. He founded AlchemyDB — a unified Graph/RDBMS/KV/Document store later acquired by Aerospike — and led the design and implementation of Aerospike 3’s document and SQL features as Principal Architect. Earlier work includes designing Makara’s real-time metrics datastore and building large-scale distributed systems across adtech and consumer startups, giving him deep operational and product instincts. Today he leads Kuhirō, pushing CRDT-based edge data and a fully edge serverless stack that blends CDN-scale delivery with strong consistency models. Known for turning research-grade ideas into production-grade, high-throughput systems, he pairs founder-level strategy with low-level systems craftsmanship. Located in Cupertino, he brings rare cross-disciplinary fluency in databases, distributed systems, product, and go-to-market.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Engineering, Bachelors Computer Engineering at University of Michigan
German, French, Spanish, Russian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
openresty9
nginx9
driver9
streaming8
relational-databases8
http-client8
lua8
luajit8
http8
cpp6
bluetooth-low-energy6
android6
bluetooth6
nosql6
http-server5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JakSprats/Alchemy-Database
Aug 2010 - Aug 2012
Hybrid Relational-Database/NOSQL-Datastore
Contributions:58 commits, 3 comments in 2 years
nosqlrelational-databases
phaynes/datanet
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:4 commits in 1 month
crdtsynchronization-servicedata-synchronizationsynchronization
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