Anthony Shivakumar

Senior Systems Engineer โ€” CPU-Native AI Infrastructure, HPC, Telecom

๐Ÿ“ British Columbia, Canada ๐ŸŒ Website

Systems engineer and independent builder working across CPU-native AI infrastructure, public-sector software, telecom router platforms, C/Linux systems, practical web platforms, robotics, drones, and technical publishing. Strong at connecting hardware-aware implementation, empirical benchmarking, and production software delivery.

๐Ÿ’ผ Experience

Software Developer, AI Centre of Excellence

BC Government
2022-04 โ€” Present ๐Ÿ“ British Columbia, Canada
  • Worked with the Information Management Branch from 2022 to 2025, then moved to Connected Service BC from 2025 to present.
  • Produced technical validation work comparing hardware and software options for AI workloads, including compute, accuracy, operational fit, and procurement implications for Xeon 6 dual-socket infrastructure.
  • Collaborate across technical and non-technical teams to ship maintainable public-service software where reliability, auditability, and operational clarity matter.
AI infrastructure OCR pipelines Technical validation Hardware benchmarking Public-sector systems Compute efficiency Application architecture Software maintenance Team collaboration

Founder / Builder

ANTSAND
2014 โ€” Present ๐Ÿ“ Vancouver, BC

Designed and built a multi-tenant HMVC web platform from scratch, running in production for 10+ years across multiple live sites on AWS EC2. Architecture supports multi-domain, multi-site, and multi-module tenancy through a custom PHP/Phalcon framework.

  • Started from SEO and marketing services, then expanded into reusable internal software for websites, content, forms, sales, and operations.
  • Built tools for generating and managing websites from structured content and reusable templates.
  • Designed workflows for small businesses and independent creators who need practical web systems without heavy enterprise software.
  • Run the platform as a real working product while continuing to improve the underlying architecture.
  • Engineered a 3-tier HMVC architecture with MySQL, MongoDB, Docker, and Nginx โ€” handling multi-tenant routing, module isolation, and per-site configuration at the platform level.
PHP JavaScript Phalcon MongoDB MySQL Docker Nginx Sass SEO Product development

Software Developer

Ericsson
2013-04 โ€” 2017-04 ๐Ÿ“ Burnaby, Canada

Developed packet-classification and forwarding-plane software for Ericsson SE edge routers and SSR Smart Services Routers, serving fixed and mobile networks.

  • Built the CLI-facing ACL configuration path: it accepted operators' classification commands and passed them to the classification daemon on the routing plane.
  • Developed the classification daemon's lookup tables for Ezchip, DPDK, Ericsson PPA, and Spider forwarding targets, using software and hardware lookup paths.
  • Wrote, modified, and maintained linear lookup and MRFC (Modified Recursive Flow Classification) software algorithms; worked with TCAM hardware lookup and Intel DPDK virtual-router processing.
  • Worked on ingress and egress forwarding paths, intercepting packets, classifying L2/L3/L4 headers against operator rules, and applying filtering, QoS, forwarding, NAT, and RPF actions.
  • Supported dynamic subscriber and direct traffic. Used C, Python, assembly, shell, Git, Gerrit, and Linux kernel, driver, and user-space development.
C Python Assembly Linux ACL Packet classification Forwarding plane MRFC TCAM DPDK NAT QoS Git Gerrit

Co-op Software Developer

Ericsson
2012-04 โ€” 2013-03 ๐Ÿ“ Burnaby, Canada

Co-op software developer with Ericsson Forwarding Services in Burnaby, Canada.

Software development IP routers

๐Ÿš€ Projects

Personal technical site for writing about software, systems, AI, math, robotics, and the process of building practical tools.

  • Used as a public home for technical essays, build logs, notes, experiments, and project documentation.
  • Built toward a Simon Willison-style personal site: writing, tools, references, technical experiments, and useful public artifacts.
  • Connects personal publishing with the same platform work behind ANTSAND.
Technical writing Publishing systems Web architecture SEO Content systems

Building C Kernel Engine, a C-first compiler, kernel library, and runtime for CPU-based transformer inference and training. It turns explicit model circuits and kernel capability maps into generated C that can be inspected, tested, and profiled.

  • Developing the model-weight conversion, circuit lowering, code generation, and runtime paths for supported text, vision, and audio model families.
  • Working on CPU kernels, quantized formats, memory planning, threading, and numerical parity checks against reference implementations.
  • Building training and serving paths, including tokenizer and chat-template compatibility, tool-call behavior, and multi-turn agent-harness tests.
  • Documenting what works, what is still experimental, and the failures that drive the next implementation steps.
C Linux Compiler/code generation Transformer models CPU inference Training Quantization Numerical validation Model serving

Antshiv Robotics

https://antshiv.com

Embedded systems, robotics, drone, and physical-computing exploration connecting software, electronics, automation, controls, and practical experimentation.

  • Explores robotics and drone projects through hardware-connected experiments, embedded software, sensors, controls, and automation workflows.
  • Documents experiments through build notes and YouTube-style technical videos to make the learning process visible.
  • Provides a practical base for robotics, electronics, drone, and embedded-systems consultation or prototyping work.
Robotics Drones Electronics Linux Automation Embedded systems Control systems Technical video

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Skills

Languages

PHP JavaScript C SQL HTML CSS Sass

Web and Platform

Phalcon MongoDB MySQL Docker Nginx Linux Redis

Product and Systems

Web platforms Generated websites Publishing systems Forms and workflows Sales and invoice workflows SEO automation Small-business tooling

AI, HPC, and Systems

CPU-native AI Transformer architecture AVX-512 AMX SIMD NUMA MPI RDMA Quantization PyTorch validation DPDK Telecom systems Linux applications

Robotics and Hardware

Robotics Drones Embedded systems Electronics Automation Control systems

๐ŸŽ“ Education

Master of Applied Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Victoria
๐Ÿ“ Victoria, BC

๐Ÿ“œ Certifications

Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization

DeepLearning.AI
2024-07

LFD401: Developing Applications For Linux

The Linux Foundation
2022-09

Neural Networks and Deep Learning

Coursera Course Certificates
2017-01

Need an intelligent system to work on real hardware?

Embedded systems ยท Robotics ยท Constrained AI ยท CPU and HPC ยท Accelerators ยท Distributed systems

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