Systems, not symptoms
Start with the forces shaping a problem: constraints, incentives, interfaces, and failure modes. The durable answer is usually found beneath the visible request.
Summit Singh ThakurOpen to thoughtful conversations
Scaling AI-powered cloud platforms for enterprise impact.
Crafting AI-driven cloud services and developer tools with a founder’s product mindset.
- AI systems
- Cloud infrastructure
- Distributed systems
- Full-stack engineering
- Developer experience
How I work
Build for the whole system.
I build scalable systems and drive innovation across cloud, AI, and developer experience. From engineering at Oracle to co-founding a food-tech startup, I thrive on solving hard problems that make a real-world impact, across cloud platforms, AI/ML, distributed systems, and full-stack engineering.
Leverage through clarity
A clear model compounds across code, tooling, and teams. Good abstractions remove repeated decisions while keeping the important ones visible.
Craft in the details
Reliability, language, and interaction design are part of the same work. The last ten percent is where a capable system becomes one people can trust.
Experience
Building where reliability meets momentum.
Enterprise cloud systems and developer tooling at Oracle, informed by the product judgment and ownership of a co-founder and CTO.
Oracle
Jul 2021 - Present
Senior Software Engineer · Cloud & AI
Engineering cloud systems and developer tooling where reliability, operational clarity, and thoughtful automation matter at enterprise scale.
- Built reusable Terraform modules and Helm deployment frameworks that standardized OCI environments across 8+ engineering teams, cutting environment provisioning time by 50%
- Developed Python and OCI SDK cost optimization tooling that reduced compute costs by 22% and saved $10K+ per month
- Designed Java/Spring Boot backend services and REST APIs for Oracle Primavera/P6, reducing production support incidents by 25%
- Automated CI/CD workflows with Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes, cutting deployment time by 40%
TruckBux (now ZIKI Kitchens)
Jan 2018 - Jul 2021
Co-Founder & CTO
Co-founded and led engineering for a $6M-funded food-tech startup, scaling the team from 2 to 12 developers and launching customer, vendor, and admin products.
- Architected Java/Spring microservices on AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, EKS) with Firebase auth, supporting 10x monthly order growth while cutting infrastructure costs by 40%
- Unified native Android/iOS apps into a single React Native codebase, cutting release cycles by 50%
- Integrated DoorDash and Postmates APIs, increasing delivery revenue by 60% across 50+ vendors
- Built API versioning, usage analytics, and Metabase KPI dashboards that supported investor updates and a $100K pre-seed raise
Education
Foundation in
computer science
and AI.
M.S. in Artificial Intelligence
The University of Texas at Austin
Graduate work spanning machine learning, deep learning, planning, and the design of intelligent systems.
Machine learningDeep learningNatural language processingAI systems
B.S. in Computer Science
Drexel University
Computer science foundation shaped through software engineering, research, and hands-on product building.
Computer scienceSoftware engineeringAlgorithmsSystems
Selected work
Products with a point of view.
Open-source AI workflows, award-winning voice experiences, and products shaped from architecture through interaction.
01live
AI Instagram Organizer
A multi-provider AI workflow that turns an unstructured photo library into coherent, platform-ready stories.
- Python
- Llama
- Gemini
- Ollama
02live
AI Video Factory
Turn any topic into a 20-30 minute cinematic AI documentary: script, visuals, voiceover, music, captions, thumbnails, and YouTube metadata, fully automated.
- Python
- FFmpeg
- TTS
- LLMs
03live
AI Job Pilot
Deterministic, low-token autofill for ATS job application forms (Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, Workable).
- Python
- Chrome DevTools Protocol
- LLMs
- Strict JSON schema
Selected writing
Field notes from building.
Practical thinking on AI, cloud operations, and the systems behind dependable software.
Community
Contribution
beyond code.
Leadership, mentorship, and community building across technology organizations.
Austin AAPI Collective
Community
NAAAP STEP Mentoring Program
Mentoring
Asian Business Students Association, UT Austin
Leadership
Oracle Professional Asian Leadership
Community
Consumer Technology Association
Technology community
STAR Scholars Program, Drexel University
Research
Major League Hacking
Hackathons
Now
Active threads.
A living snapshot of the questions and work holding my attention.
See the full now pageBuilding
AI systems & developer infrastructure
Exploring useful boundaries between intelligent automation, cloud platforms, and the tools engineers depend on every day.
Studying
Graduate artificial intelligence
Continuing an M.S. in Artificial Intelligence at The University of Texas at Austin, with attention to learning, planning, and intelligent systems.
Reading
Systems, judgment & the future of work
Following ideas across distributed systems, AI alignment, organizational design, product craft, and the history of consequential technologies.
Developer signals
Work in the open.
Public repositories, experiments, and tools. Numbers are fetched from GitHub at build and deploy time, so they refresh with each release.
- 44
- Public repositories
- 99
- Repository stars
- 17
- Repository forks
- 31
- GitHub followers
Start a conversation
Thoughtful work starts with a clear question.
If you are working through an ambitious systems, AI, or developer-platform problem, I would be glad to hear about it.