Shan
engineer. builder. systems+ai.
I work full-stack on payments, bridging, and staking at Polygon, focused on shipping systems that improve speed and confidence through testing, reliability, and clear docs. Outside work, I build with AI and use personal projects to sharpen agent orchestration in real-world workflows.
Last updated: 2026-05-04
// North star
Build systems that help people move faster with confidence.
At work: make complex systems reliable, testable, and operable.
Outside work: keep refining practical AI and agent orchestration through fast iteration and shipping.
// How I work
- Public by default. If it can help others and is not sensitive, it should be in-channel, not buried in DMs.
- Direct and clear. Cut fluff, get to the ask, and respect people's time.
- Async first for documentation and reuse. Sync when collaboration genuinely benefits.
- Meetings need value. I should be giving value or getting value I cannot get from notes, transcripts, or recordings.
- Feedback should be direct and honest: understand the why, then help unblock.
- Priorities: ownership and speed.
// Right now
full now pageCurrent focus across work, public tooling, and the personal systems behind both.
- At work: stepping into Polygon's Open Money Stack while keeping the bar high on reliability, testing, docs, and observability.
- Outside work: building agent-first CLI tools that are actually useful; tfl-cli, companies-house-cli, rail-cli, fuel-cli, and parliament-cli are the clearest proof right now.
- Personal systems: tightening family planning, nutrition, and fitness so the setup supports the rest of the work instead of competing with it.
// Notes
allAI coding has levels
27 Apr 2026 · 6 min read
Vibe coding is one way to use AI. Treating every AI-assisted workflow as the same thing is lazy.
Agents make low-value work feel productive
17 Apr 2026 · 3 min read
Agents can turn a day into a week of code output. That still doesn't mean the work was the right bet.
Hermes Console: a read-only dashboard for Hermes
14 Apr 2026 · 5 min read
Running Hermes locally means checking files, logs, cron output, and CLI state in too many places. Hermes Console is a read-only UI I built to make that easier.
// Latest log
full log- [2026-05-01][WORK]
Opened the agglayer-ui TRM screening PR and added quota alerts for API usage monitoring.
- [2026-05-01][PROJECTS]
Pushed OpenClaw Blackbox toward public release with deterministic request inspection and CLI polish.
- [2026-04-29][PROJECTS]
Built OpenClaw Blackbox v0: a disk-first agent run inspector that turns sessions into reports.
- [2026-04-27][PROJECTS]
Simplified track-shan into a daily pulse tracker and deployed the new production flow.
- [2026-04-26][WORK]
Finished TRM documentation and packaged wallet-kit for reuse across app UIs.