Naman Kumar
@namankumar1
Senior software engineer building production AI systems—agents, context retrieval, evaluations, and infrastructure.
What I'm looking for
I build production AI systems end to end—especially agents, context retrieval, evaluations, and the infrastructure that makes them reliable in the real world. I scaled the AI coding assistant Cody from idea to multi-million ARR across 250+ enterprises, and I’ve built autonomous agents that diagnose and fix production failures.
At Railway, I designed and shipped an autonomous deployment diagnosis and error monitoring agent, architecting execution and evaluation infrastructure with Temporal workflows. Previously at Sourcegraph, I led Cody’s hybrid multi-repo context retrieval using BM25 and vector embeddings (with reciprocal rank fusion), adopted MCP for tool-based context/action, and helped drive PLG growth through monetization and abuse prevention. I’m energized by building systems that are measurable, scalable, and genuinely useful for developers.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Designed, built, and launched an autonomous deployment diagnosis and error monitoring agent that analyzes runtime logs, failed deployments, code, and configuration across millions of services. Architected evaluation and execution infrastructure for Railway Agents using Temporal workflows and shipped agent billing/usage metering and scalable log fingerprinting via ClickHouse.
Scaled Sourcegraph’s Cody AI coding assistant from prototype to multi-million ARR, serving 250+ enterprises and 15K+ daily developers. Built hybrid multi-repo context retrieval using BM25, vector embeddings, and reciprocal rank fusion, and enabled context and tool execution with MCP; also led Cody Web and Permission Center initiatives and built Stripe-backed monetization plus in-product ROI analyt
Built, launched, and A/B tested 10+ product growth experiments including personalized feeds, content gating, promo codes, and ad placement optimizations. Implemented spam detection that flagged 80% of fake accounts, improved page load times using CDN edge-worker caching, and built event platforms for nomination and voting flows during peak traffic.
Google Summer of Code
GraphQL Foundation
May 2020 - Aug 2020 (3 months)
Developed a fast, maintainable streaming GraphQL parser adopted in graphql-js and GraphiQL. Improved performance and enabled syntax-aware highlighting.
Fullstack Engineer Intern
Grofers
May 2019 - Aug 2019 (3 months)
Built a self-serve chat system to automate customer support, handling about 12K daily tickets during peak sales. Reduced manual workload by 65% and reduced mean response time by 25 minutes.
Contract Fullstack Engineer
Redacumen
Jan 2019 - Aug 2019 (7 months)
Built an accounts-payable automation platform that reduced AP operations cost by up to 85%, including an OCR-based document aggregation and auto-indexing pipeline plus an ERP sync agent. Built a cloud kitchen food-ordering platform spanning consumer, cook, and delivery-hub applications for ordering and dispatch coordination.
Frontend Engineer Intern
HackerEarth
Jun 2018 - Apr 2019 (10 months)
Led frontend development of FaceCode, a remote interview platform with real-time coding via WebSockets, live video, and code execution. Built enterprise analytics, billing, and team management features including RBAC, invitations, and admin workflows.
Software Engineer Intern
Coding Blocks
Jun 2017 - Nov 2018 (1 year 5 months)
Built an online IDE supporting 13 programming languages with real-time collaboration features. Wrote a static site generator that cut code redundancy by 80% and taught Data Structures & Algorithms and React.js to 100+ students.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Liverpool John Moores University
Master of Science (M.S.), Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
2022 - 2024
M.S. in Machine Learning & AI with a thesis on optimizing information retrieval in conversational context via LLM query rewriting. Focused on retrieval improvements for LLM-powered conversational systems.
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech), Computer Science & Engineering
2016 - 2020
B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering with a project on a distributed key-value fault-tolerant in-memory database. Worked on building resilient storage and synchronization mechanisms.
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