- Building Unum Cloud since 2015.
- Computer Science & AI researcher w/out publications.
- Twice an Astrophysics dropout. Bioinformatics fan.
- Investing in deep-tech, cloud, & semiconductors.
- Fluent in English, Russian & Armenian.
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- Frequent host of "Systems" meetups in Armenia, and beyond.
For the past 20ish years, I have been coding mainly in C++, CUDA, Python, and optimizing Assembly on x86/ARM. Prefer spaces over tabs, east-const, and procedural programming over object-oriented or functional.
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- USearch - single-file search engine for C, C++, Rust, Swift, Go, Java, C#, Python, JS..., FAISS alternative
- StringZilla - faster strings with SIMD/SWAR for C, C++, Rust, Python, and Swift, GlibC & STL alternative
- UForm - small multimodal pre-trained AI models with SDKs for Python, JS, and Swift, CLIP alternative
- SimSIMD - fast mixed-precision math kernels for C, Python, Rust, and JavaScript, BLAS lvl1 alternative
- UCall - networking server library for C and Python designed for Linux kernel bypass, FastAPI alternative
- ForkUnion - lower latency parallelism for Rust & C++ w/out mutexes, allocs, or CAS, Rayon & TaskFlow alternative
Some of those are used in ClickHouse, DuckDB, TiDB, ScyllaDB, YugaByte, LangChain, SemanticKernel, MemGraph, Vald, and many other less "open" systems, such as competitive AI labs, Cloud companies, Fortune 500, iOS and Android apps with 100M-1B MAU, and government agencies. There are also some cool scientific datasets and HPC tutorials you can borrow:
- usearch-molecules - 28 billion fingerprints for drug discovery, published with AWS
- less_slow.cpp - teaches a performance oriented mindset for C++, CUDA, PTX, and ASM
- less_slow.rs - Rust adaptation with a focus on higher-level abstractions
- less_slow.py - Python adaptation with a focus on scripting & data-management
- SpaceV - 1 billion vectors from Microsoft SpaceV extended for usability
And more demos, benchmarks, and fun hackathon projects:
- UStore - multimodal embedded database for C, C++, and Python designed around key-value stores
- StringWars - micro-benchmarking StringZilla against the best Rust tools
- HashEvals - testing avalanche effect & differential patterns of string hash functions
- ScalingElections - parallel combinatorial voting in CUDA and Mojo for H100 GPUs
- TinySemVer - Semantic versioning GitHub CI tool that doesn't take 300K lines of JavaScript
- SwiftSemanticSearch - example of on-device real-time AI using UForm and USearch on iOS
- ParallelReductionsBenchmark - GPGPU benchmarks for SyCL, CUDA, OpenCL, Vulkan, etc.
- LibSee - non-intrusively profiling LibC calls with
LD_PRELOADtricks - PyBindToGPUs - C++ and CUDA starter kit for Python developers avoiding CMake
- StringTape - Apache Arrow compatible tapes for space-efficient string arrays
- JaccardIndex - exploring CPU port utilization with Carry-Save Adders & Lookups
- USearchBench.py - Billion-scale search benchmarks against FAISS, Weaviate, and Qdrant
- USearchBench.java - Billion-scale search scaling benchmarks against Lucene, using Spark
- ucsb - parallel benchmarks for ACID persistent key-value stores, like RocksDB
- affine-gaps - Less wrong local and global Gotoh sequence alignments in one NumBa Python file
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