Simon Eskildsen

Simon Eskildsen

CEO and co-founder · turbopuffer

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Co-founder and CEO at turbopuffer. Formerly Principal Engineer at Shopify, where he helped scale infra from 1K → 1M RPS.

Sessions (2)

Day 212:30pm-1:30pmMain Stage
Fireside Chat: Gergely Orosz × Simon Eskildsen
Day 22:25pm-2:45pmTrack 3 · Room 2003
How to Connect AI to Billions of Legal Documents

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Eskildsen built turbopuffer, the object-storage-native search/vector database now powering Cursor, Notion, and Linear, and he explains its internals with unusual depth: LSM-on-object-storage, NVMe/RAM tiered caching, cold-vs-warm latency, and the first-principles 'napkin math' that drives its order-of-magnitude cost wins. Attend for hard-won, production-scale lessons on retrieval, hybrid search, and database design in the AI era from someone who scaled databases at Shopify before founding the company.

Speaking style

Deeply technicalBattle-testedBig-picture

Recent talks (3)

turbopuffer: Object Storage-native Database for SearchCMU Database Group (PostgreSQL vs. The World Seminar Series, Spring 2026) · Mar 2026Faster vector search with Turbopuffer CEO, Simon EskildsenDatabase School (Aaron Francis) · Nov 2025Billion-Scale Vector Search on Object StorageMaven Lightning Lesson (with Jason Liu) · Nov 2025

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