Keshav Sivakumar

Bio

I love building things, big or small, hardware or software - crafting a product people use gives me joy. It's led me to a diverse set of experiences, from founding a hardware-tech startup to forward deployed engineering at Palantir.

Lately, the interactions between our society and technology, on both an individual level and societal level have been of greater interest to me. Outside of tech policy and regulation, I believe there's a lot of scope to better design and build products that help us as a society have more meaningful or enjoyable interactions with technology.

Vitæ

Full Resume in PDF.

• Stanford University 2024 - now

  M.Eng
  MS&E - Computational Social Sciences
• Palantir 2022 - 2024

  Forward Deployed Software Engineer
  Product engineering on large-scale data platforms across varied fields from healthcare, logistics and energy/carbon emission tracking.
• University of Cambridge 2019 - 2022

  B.A
  Computer Science & Management
• University of Cambridge Summer 2020

  Research Intern
  Exploring VSLAM technologies using cheaper intel cameras/phone cameras and IMU sensor data
• Lumitics 2016-2019

  Co-Founder & CTO
  Tackling food waste through smart dustbins that granularly track waste. Raised ~$700k in seed funding, expanded to 15+ clients. Startup has grown since I left, now doing ~$1M ARR.

Recent Projects & Ideas

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The need for Context in Google's AI overviews
Google's AI overviews mix information from multiple sources, sources that differ greatly in their integrity

A rubber duck AI for writing
Rather than prompting an AI to write, is having an AI constantly ask questions at the side a better UI for writing?

Misinformation and Chrome Extensions
Designing a chrome extension to automatically provide greater context with alternative sources of the same news