Simon Eskilden
Founder and CEO of Turbopuffer, a search engine for unstructured data focused on vector and full-text retrieval. Previously spent nearly a decade scaling infrastructure at Shopify and later worked across startups like Readwise, Replicate, and Causal.
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Mar 12, 2026 • 1h 1min
Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Hørup Eskildsen of Turbopuffer
Simon Eskildsen, founder and CEO of Turbopuffer and former Shopify infra engineer, digs into why search for unstructured data broke old cost models. He gets into hybrid retrieval for code, agents making parallel tool calls, bold database design around object storage and NVMe, and the wild stories behind Readwise, Notion, and Cursor.
