Suman Karumuri
Founder at KalDB
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSuman Karumuri is a founder and infrastructure engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale distributed observability and storage systems for companies like Airbnb, Slack, Twitter and Amazon. He led petabyte-scale tracing, logging and metrics platforms—migrating critical metric pipelines, delivering four-nines reliability, and running Kafka pipelines at terabyte-per-day scale—then founded KalDB to automate storage format selection for bursty search-and-analytics workloads. Known for shipping cloud-native, low-latency systems (Astra/KalDB) that replace costly vendor tradeoffs, he combines hands-on implementation with technical leadership across observability, reliability, and LLM instrumentation. His background spans networking/security at EC2 to early IDE work at Facebook and research-driven systems at Brown, reflecting both production rigor and academic roots. Notably, he has repeatedly turned internal infra projects into widely used platforms, demonstrating an ability to productize deep infrastructure investments.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at Brown UniversityBachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Osmania University
English, Telugu, Hindi, Bengali
Github Skills (106)
opensearch10
distributed-tracing10
grpc10
armeria10
kubernetes10
kafka10
opentracing10
zipkin10
database9
scalable9
security9
opentelemetry9
observability9
intrusion-detection8
sql8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
slackhq/astra
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Astra is a structured log search and analytics engine developed by Slack and Salesforce
Contributions:621 reviews, 579 commits, 222 PRs in 1 year 8 months
apache-lucenearmeriagrpckafkakubernetes
mansu/dotfiles
Dec 2015 - Jan 2023
Contributions:15 pushes in 7 years 2 months
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