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title: "Shorya Kumar - Co-Founder in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# Shorya Kumar on Tal

## Headline

Building protago\.in , iCurious\.ai \| Ex Databricks \| EECS @IIT Kanpur

## About

I have passed out from IIT Kanpur with a bachelors in Electrical and Computer Science Engineering\. Currently I am working in tech industry and building monitoring infrastructure at Databricks\. I am an avid reader and have varied interests across deep technology, finance, history, psychology and economics\. I love to solve challenging problems across domains of technology and businesses\. I have a strong foundation in lower level systems like hardware, kernel, assembly, compilers and databases\. And can quickly adapt to any new technology and work on building large scale systems\. I have research experience in systems, security , machine learning, computer graphics etc\. I am also skilled in fundamental analysis, trading and valuations in finance domain\. Have deep interest in understanding business models and how to make them performant\. Feel free to ping me\. Always open to discussions\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

cursor

deepseek

gemini

hugging face

## Work experience

Co\-Founder at Protago AI, Mar 2026 \- Jun 2026 · 4 mos, Making children protagonist of their storybooks\. Get adventure themes in space to educational themes like financial literacy for your kids featuring themselves in our books\. Check out @protago\.in

Co\-Founder at iCurious AI, Oct 2025 \- Feb 2026 · 5 mos, Revolutionising learning and development outcomes with toys and technology

Software Engineer at Databricks, Jun 2024 \- Sep 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Observability team \- Cost Attribution Quota Management Health Mediated Release Alert Experience Building monitoring infrastructure inside Databricks\. Making detection and debugging for teams easy\. Working with metrics, TSDB, client side control, alerting, logging etc\. Got familiar with OLAP databases and distributed computing engines\. Bread and butter at Databricks\.

Systems security research Intern at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Mar 2024 \- Dec 2024 · 10 mos, Dortmund, North Rhine\-Westphalia, Germany, Worked on novel microarchitectural attacks exploiting kernel code using malicious peripherals\. Reviewed several attacks like Prime\+Probe, Evict\+Reload side channels, spectre, meltdown, rowhammer to come up with a novel side channel attack during the internship\. Tackled challenges related to reverse engineering cache policies, reducing kernel noise, performance optimizations to make the attack practical\. Demonstrated novel covert channel attacks which can leak bits in a practical setting\. Research got published in top tier conference in security ESORICS 2025

Quant Research Consultant at WorldQuant, Jan 2024 \- Jul 2024 · 7 mos, Alpha Research , Quant Trading , Machine Learning Involved with generating alpha expressions based on various datasets provided by the Worldquant Brain Platform which lets you to backtest your alphas on historic US and China market data\.

## Education

Bachelor's Degree, Electrical and Computer Science Engineering, Computer Science, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR

Birla Vidya Mandir, Nainital

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/shoryak
- codeforces: https://codeforces\.com/profile/shoryak
- shoryak\.github\.io: https://shoryak\.github\.io/

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