Summary
Shivam 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