Simon Eskildsen is the co-founder and CEO of turbopuffer, an object-storage-native search and vector database that powers companies like Notion, Cursor, and Anthropic, drawing on his decade scaling Shopify's infrastructure to millions of requests per second. His sessions offer unusually deep, first-principles insight into building search at billion-vector scale and the economics of AI retrieval infrastructure.

Recent talks (6)

Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Eskildsen of TurbopufferLatent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast (video) · Mar 2026turbopuffer: Object Storage-native Database for SearchCMU Database Seminar — PostgreSQL vs. The World Series · Mar 2026Faster vector search with Turbopuffer CEO, Simon EskildsenThe Database School Podcast · Nov 2025Billion-scale vector storage for RAGJason Liu Podcast · Nov 2025He built a new database in his bedroomThe PMF Show · Oct 2025Billion-scale vector search with NotionData Council Conference · May 2025

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