Architecting Out Loud

Anmol Yadav

Technical co-founder building AI agent platforms and multi-tenant database platform on Kubernetes. Creator of Starship — open-source blockchain orchestration, $225k in grants, adopted across the Cosmos ecosystem. Previously MLOps at Toyota Woven Planet and cloud platform at Rakuten. IIT Bombay '18.

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Experience

Constructive

Co-Founder & Head of Infrastructure

Oct 2023 – Present

AI Agent Infrastructure

  • Built Calvin, an AI automation platform on Kubernetes (GKE + NVIDIA L4 GPUs) that automates issue triage, PR review, CI debugging, and cross-repo failure analysis. Eliminated the need for a dedicated PM and reduced QA turnaround significantly.
  • Deployed self-hosted LLM inference via vLLM: Gemma 3 12B and GLM-4.5 Air (106B MoE) with 32K–128K context, OpenAI-compatible APIs, and tool calling.
  • Built Go sidecars for agent infrastructure: multi-provider OAuth PKCE credential manager (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google) and a workspace introspection HTTP server.
  • Architected a skills-as-code system: agent capabilities packaged as versioned markdown runbooks, deployed via init containers with persistent storage.
  • Designed AgenticKit (TypeScript) and MCP tooling for multi-provider LLM streaming and structured agent-tool integration.

Platform & Developer Infrastructure

  • Built Constructive, a multi-tenant database platform — 134+ packages across 3 monorepos — enforcing tenant isolation through a session-aware security layer (PostgreSQL RLS + JWT claims).
  • Architected SPRT (Security Predicate Resolution Tables), an authorization system that reduces recursive permission lookups from O(n^d) to O(log n) across a three-level hierarchy (app/org/group).
  • Designed a bitstring permission model for O(1) authorization checks via bitwise operations, materializing multi-source permission bundles into a single bitmask per actor-entity pair.
  • Built pgpm, a package manager for SQL modules with npm-style dependency resolution and deterministic migrations backed by a content-addressable object store.
  • Architected a GraphQL plugin ecosystem with 14+ custom plugins covering unified search (full-text + vector + trigram), geospatial queries, file uploads, and LLM/RAG integration.
  • Designed a composable authentication system supporting password, OAuth/OIDC, magic link, OTP, WebAuthn/passkeys, and TOTP 2FA.
  • Built a cross-repo integration testing system using git submodules as a "known-good stack pointer." CI/CD state machine with rolling PRs and automated merge. 175+ automated cycles, 67% of PRs fully automated. Eliminated manual integration testing.
  • Maintained widely-used open-source tooling: pgsql-parser (221 stars), libpg-query-node (75 stars), postgres-ast-deparser (39 stars), and KubernetesJS (27 stars).

Starship

Creator & Lead · Open Source

Feb 2023 – Present
  • Created Starship, the first orchestration agent for blockchain development environments, predating modern AI agent harnesses. Open-source Kubernetes-based platform that spins up multi-chain networks for testing and development.
  • Widely adopted in the Cosmos ecosystem, backed by Cosmos Hub and funded by the Interchain Foundation. Core teams built on it: Neutron for integration testing, Osmosis for cross-chain flows, Agoric for smart contract E2E validation.
  • Expanded beyond Cosmos into Solana (agave-validator) and Ethereum (geth + prysm), becoming a truly multi-ecosystem orchestration platform.
  • Designed init container coordination protocols for bootstrapping distributed validator networks, with exposer sidecars for cross-pod state sharing and ConfigMap-based service discovery.
  • Built a gRPC + HTTP service registry conforming to the chain-registry standard, enabling ecosystem wallets and explorers to work against ephemeral test environments without modification.
  • Architected a deep-merge configuration system with JSON Schema validation and TypeScript type generation supporting 30+ chain types with fundamentally different runtime shapes.
  • Secured $225k in grants from Osmosis and Neutron grant programs. 100+ users across teams, 10,000+ downloads.

Persistence

Tech Lead

Mar 2022 – Feb 2023
  • Led a team of 4 developers building cloud infrastructure for large-scale validator nodes. Reduced cloud costs by 50%+ within 2 months.
  • Set up software development processes, code review standards, and CI/CD pipelines for effective collaboration across a team of 15+ engineers.
  • Led Cosmos SDK chain development of Persistence's core-1 chain, coordinating with validator operators to upgrade the chain from version 2 to 6 over 6 months.

Woven Planet (Toyota's Autonomous Driving Venture)

MLOps Engineer / Software Engineer · Tokyo, Japan

Aug 2020 – Mar 2022
  • Core maintainer of Inadatron, an internal ML training platform for object detection, segmentation, and visual recognition tasks. Built automated workflows for triggering ML training on DGX servers on-prem, replacing manual triggers.
  • Led development of tools and frameworks for handling datasets and ML model training at scale (MLOps).
  • Designed and built an end-to-end automated pipeline for processing satellite imagery to extract lane features, using Pachyderm and Kubernetes. Processed petabyte-scale data, scaled to 5,000 workers.
  • Designed ML data handling across the full data lifecycle: annotation processing to ingestion, using Elasticsearch as metadata store for tracking and querying all data.

Rakuten

Cloud Platform Department · Tokyo, Japan

Oct 2018 – Aug 2020
  • Core contributor to Rakuten's OneCloud, a Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure platform for affiliated businesses and subsidiaries.
  • Designed a graph-based KnowledgeBase for Access Management, RBAC/ABAC, service registry-discovery, and tenant mapping across all OneCloud services.
  • Introduced Open Policy Agent for local, cached access control. Designed Automation-as-a-Service for deployment self-service using Terraform and Habitat.

Side Projects

Minato

Go, Kubernetes, Python/FastAPI, Helm

  • Kubernetes-native AI agent provisioning platform. Custom CRDs (Tenant, Workspace) with a kubebuilder operator that provisions isolated per-user namespaces with NetworkPolicy, ResourceQuota, and AES-encrypted credential injection. Sidecar-based skill architecture where agents self-manage K8s resources via MCP tools.
  • Includes a radiology DICOM processing service for CT/MRI analysis with multi-window rendering and session-based radiologist feedback loops. Deployed via Helm with GPU support.

Base Chain Games

Solidity, Ethereum/Base

  • Built and deployed games on Base chain using custody and distribution smart contracts.

Skills

Languages
GoPythonTypeScript/JavaScriptBashSQL
AI/ML
LLM integration (multi-provider)RAG pipelinesagent orchestrationMCPvLLMMLOpsDGX/on-prem trainingDICOM/medical imaging
Infrastructure
KubernetesHelmDockerTerraformGitHub ActionsPachydermGKE
Data
PostgreSQL (RLS, pgvector, pg_trgm)ElasticsearchDgraphCassandraKafka
Tools
gRPCGraphQLPostGraphileGrafanaELK

Education

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay)

B.Tech in Aerospace Engineering

2014 – 2018

Research

Cryptanalysis using Boolean Satisfiability Solver

Guide: Prof. Virendra Sule, Electrical Department, IIT Bombay · eprint.iacr.org/2017/1141

Dec 2016 – Sept 2018
  • Co-authored a research paper introducing a new SAT solving method.
  • Solved a 90-variable biological gene regulatory problem using the SAT solver to obtain all fixed points.
  • Developed a computational algorithm for formation of equations and symbolic operations for Boolean functions.
  • Solved Bivium ANF equations to retrieve an 80-bit key within 48 hours using only 90 equations.