Founding Engineer · Full-stack Engineer · Infra Engineer

Abhishek Kumar

I take products from the first commit to revenue — and keep them standing. Most recently founding & infra engineer at Cyborg AI; before that, Director & CTO, Engineering at Creatr AI.

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02The Forest

The trail so far.

Ten stops, newest first: founding roles, open source, and the communities that taught me on the way up.
  1. 2025 — 2026

    Cyborg AI

    Founding & Infra Engineer

    Scaled the startup from double-digit revenue to $200–250K a year. Owned backend, scaling and AI with 100% availability; built Figma, Reddit and Canva integrations for distribution.

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  2. 2023 — 2024

    Creatr AI

    Director & CTO, Engineering

    Raised a $1.2M pre-seed from Accel and All In Capital. Launched three products — a web platform and two Figma plugins — to 80k+ users and 20+ businesses.

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  3. 2021 — 2023

    Meshery · Layer5

    Maintainer & Software Engineer

    Two years inside the CNCF cloud native manager — 11.6k stars, 306 committers. 168 pull requests merged and 835 commits, the 14th largest contribution in its history. Built MeshMap and the design configurator, plus closed enterprise tooling supporting organisations like Intel.

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  4. 2021

    OpenEBS · Linux Foundation / CNCF

    LFX Mentee

    Built the upgrade path into the CLI of OpenEBS, the CNCF storage layer with 9.8k stars — Kubernetes jobs for Jiva volumes and CSPC pools, with streamed logs — and support for the other storage engines.

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  5. 2021

    JBoss Community · Google Summer of Code

    Mentor

    Mentored two students through the summer on an open-source education platform — the APIs and the mobile classroom. Laid down the architecture and roadmap; both projects finished.

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  6. 2021

    Major League Hacking

    Fellow · Explorer track

    Twelve weeks, a new product every two. Four projects shipped with a pod spread across time zones.

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  7. 2020 — 2021

    Code For Cause

    Software Engineer & Mentor

    Mentored 500+ students across React, Ionic and Express bootcamps, built the organisation's site, contributed to the open-source Edu platform, and hosted the channel's live interviews with other open-source maintainers.

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  8. 2020 — 2021

    Checkstyle

    Open-source Developer

    Rebuilt the Indentation module of the Java linter that has been failing builds since 2001 — 9k stars, 4.2k forks, 378 committers. Started with lambdas, an issue open since 2016. 28 pull requests merged.

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  9. 2019 — 2020

    Segura

    Flutter Developer

    Built, managed and deployed client and server applications for luggage services.

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  10. 2018 — 2022

    Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, Delhi

    B.Tech, Computer Science

    Where the trail started.

03The Confluence

Thousands of stars. Hundreds of committers. Years of my commits.

Meshery, Checkstyle and OpenEBS are not side projects — they are infrastructure, with 30,000 stars and 892 committers between them, running in build pipelines and Kubernetes clusters that will never know my name. I spent years inside them. This is what I left.
30k+
stars on the projects I worked inside — Meshery, Checkstyle and OpenEBS
892
people have ever committed to those three. I am 14th on Meshery.
396
pull requests merged, across 42 repositories
835
commits to Meshery alone, over two years
  1. 168

    pull requests merged

    Meshery

    2021 — 2023

    Maintainer & Software Engineer/Layer5 · CNCF

    The cloud native manager, in the CNCF landscape: one place to configure, operate and visualise Kubernetes and everything that runs on it. 11.6k stars, 3.7k forks, and 306 people have committed to it.

    Two years inside the same repository. I built the design configurator and the schema-driven forms that stand between a user and a Kubernetes manifest, took the GraphQL subscription layer off its knees twice, stood up the policy engine that reasons about relationships between components, and kept the extension surface — the thing every commercial build of Meshery is loaded through — from breaking underneath it.

    11.6k
    stars
    3.7k
    forks
    306
    contributors, all time
    835
    of the commits are mine
    • React
    • Next.js
    • Go
    • GraphQL
    • Kubernetes
    • WebAssembly
    • Cypress
    Case study
  2. 28

    pull requests merged

    Checkstyle

    2020 — 2021

    Contributor — the Indentation module/Open source · Java

    The Java style checker that has sat in build pipelines since 2001 — 9k stars, 4.2k forks, 378 committers. If a Java project anywhere fails CI on a formatting rule, this is usually what said so.

    I worked almost entirely on one module: Indentation, the hardest one, because it has to hold an opinion about whitespace for every shape the Java grammar allows. Lambdas had been open since 2016 and I re-implemented them; then annotation array initialisers, `new` and its children, non-list children of if/else/for/while/switch, and the brace adjustment that lets the same checker satisfy the Google Java Style Guide and a switch-block convention at once.

    9k
    stars
    4.2k
    forks
    378
    contributors, all time
    2001
    in build pipelines since
    • Java
    • Maven
    Case study
  3. 11

    pull requests merged

    openebsctl

    2021

    LFX Mentee/OpenEBS · Linux Foundation / CNCF

    The command-line client for OpenEBS — the CNCF container-attached storage layer, 9.8k stars, that gives a Kubernetes cluster its persistent volumes.

    A Linux Foundation mentorship, spent building the part of a storage CLI nobody volunteers for: upgrades. I added the Kubernetes jobs that carry Jiva volumes and CSPC pools from one version to the next, streamed their logs back to the terminal so an operator can watch an upgrade rather than wait for it, extended list and describe to the other storage engines, and broke the Kubernetes client apart so the rest of it could be tested.

    9.8k
    stars on OpenEBS
    208
    contributors to it
    CNCF
    project
    1 of 500
    LF scholarship winners
    • Go
    • Kubernetes
    • Cloud Native
    Case study
  4. 2

    students mentored to a shipped project

    Google Summer of Code

    2021

    Mentor/JBoss Community

    Google's summer programme: an organisation takes on a student, a mentor takes on the student, and at the end there is either working software or there is not.

    I mentored two of JBoss Community's 2021 projects, both on an open-source education platform. I laid down the architecture and the roadmap up front, then reviewed the way I would want to be reviewed. Both students finished and both wrote their own final reports.

    2
    students
    2
    projects finished and archived by Google
    JBoss
    Community, the host organisation
    • Node.js
    • Express
    • Firebase
  5. 4

    products shipped in twelve weeks

    MLH Fellowship

    2021

    Fellow · Explorer track/Major League Hacking

    A remote apprenticeship for software engineers, run in pods. The Explorer track is the one where you build a new product every two weeks with people you have never met.

    Four products in twelve weeks with a pod spread across time zones, plus the pod's own site and the batch map that the fellowship still runs. The value was never the products; it was learning to be useful inside a team on day one of a two-week window.

    12
    weeks
    4
    two-week builds
    1
    pod, four time zones
    • React
    • Node.js
  6. 500+

    students mentored

    Code For Cause

    2020 — 2021

    Software Engineer & Mentor/Open-source education

    A community that builds open-source software for education and teaches with it — aimed at learners in developing countries and rural areas who are usually last in line for either.

    I built and shipped the organisation's site and contributed to the Edu server and client, the platform the Google Summer of Code projects were built on. I mentored more than 500 students through React, Ionic and Express bootcamps, and hosted the channel's live sessions — interviews and podcasts with the people who maintain other open-source projects.

    500+
    students mentored
    76
    pull requests into the site alone
    3
    bootcamps: React, Ionic, Express
    • React
    • MUI
    • Express
    • Ionic

May the Source be with you.

Project counts and my own read from the GitHub API on 27 August 2026. Every landmark links to the pull request it names.

The whole record, on GitHub
04The Clearing

What I bring to a team.

Six things I do well, and the honest version of each.

I am happiest at the founding stage — when the schema is a sketch, the infra is a few files, and the product is still an argument. I have worked that stage as a founding engineer, as a director and CTO of engineering, and inside open-source communities where the users are also the maintainers.

Latest
Founding & Infra Engineer, Cyborg AI
Based in
Delhi, India
Studied
B.Tech Computer Science, MAIT Delhi, 2018–22

  1. From the first schema to the last pixel. Web platforms, Figma plugins and browser extensions, shipped as the person responsible for the whole thing.

  2. Kubernetes, Docker, Google Cloud, Firebase. Holding availability through a growth spike is a habit, not heroics — it is a design question answered months earlier.

  3. Ran the AI department at Cyborg AI; built AI-enabled design tokens at Creatr. Models in service of a product, not the other way round.

  4. Figma plugins designers actually install. Creatr's plugins and Bloq reached tens of thousands of users, and a plugin that rewrites a designer's file gets exactly one chance to be wrong.

  5. Not side projects: Meshery, Checkstyle and OpenEBS carry 30,000 stars and 892 committers between them, and I have 396 merged pull requests across 42 repositories. Review is the job; the code is the by-product.

  6. 500+ students mentored, two Google Summer of Code students carried to a finished project, and 10+ technical workshops across colleges in India.

Field kit

What is in the pack, and the repositories it gets carried into.

LanguagesWhat the work is actually written in.
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Go
  • Java
  • Bash
InterfaceThe half a user touches.
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Flutter
  • MUI
  • Ionic
Server & dataEverything behind the request.
  • Node.js
  • NestJS
  • Express
  • GraphQL
  • Firebase
InfrastructureWhere it runs, and what keeps it running.
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Google Cloud
  • Linux
  • GitHub Actions
  • WebAssembly
ProofNothing ships without them.
  • Jest
  • Cypress
  • Checkstyle
Platforms I build insideDistribution as an engineering problem.
  • Figma Plugin API
  • Chrome Extensions
  • Twitch Extensions
  • Reddit
  • Canva
Projects I ship toThe repositories, not the résumé.
05The Shore

Stones picked up along the way.

Numbers are the least interesting part of the work, but they are the easiest to carry.
  1. $1.2M

    pre-seed raised with Creatr, from Accel and All In Capital

  2. 80k+

    users across the three products launched at Creatr

  3. $250K

    annual revenue reached at Cyborg AI, from double digits

  4. 396

    pull requests merged into open source — Meshery, Checkstyle, OpenEBS and 39 more

  5. 500+

    students mentored across React, Ionic and Express bootcamps

  6. 1 of 500

    Linux Foundation Scholarship winners selected worldwide

05The River

Let’s build something that lasts.

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