Shivam Kumar
Co Founder & CTO at Palo
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShivam Kumar is a founder-engineer and CTO with nine years of experience building impactful software and personal AI products from San Francisco. After engineering roles at Microsoft and Palantir and graduate research at UIUC, he co-founded Palo to build a “second brain” for content creators, blending ML research with product-focused systems engineering. He has a strong CS foundation (MS, UIUC; BE, BIT Mesra) and a pragmatist’s approach—“throwing code at problems” to rapid-prototype solutions that reveal what truly matters. Comfortable across industry and research environments, he brings startup grit, cloud-scale engineering experience, and a curiosity for stealth-stage innovation that connects academia and production.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Birla Institute of Technology, MesraMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHigh School Science, High School Science at Thakur Public SchoolHigh School, High School at RN Podar School, Mumbai
Github Skills (61)
javascript10
nodejs10
react10
java-bytecode9
css9
open-source9
bug-reporting8
math8
digitalocean7
solve7
codebase7
certification7
angularjs7
latex7
python7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
shivampkumar/exploreml
Aug 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 5 months
shivampkumar/survivorplan
Feb 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:45 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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