Simon Eskildsen is a database engineer and co-founder who built turbopuffer, a vector and full-text search engine designed on top of object storage. Simon Eskildsen's Twitter Score is 60 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #14,223 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Simon Eskildsen co-founded turbopuffer alongside Justine Li, with the two having previously worked together at Shopify for eight years on infrastructure engineering. During that time, they helped scale Shopify's database and compute layer from 1,000 to 1 million requests per second. Simon Eskildsen previously worked at Shopify as a principal engineer and director before departing to start turbopuffer.
Simon Eskildsen serves as CEO of turbopuffer, whose search infrastructure powers customers including Anthropic, Cursor, and Notion. Simon Eskildsen has 19,249 followers as of August 2026 and has published 13,888 posts. Simon Eskildsen has been mentioned by 36 accounts a total of 52 times.
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