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: 2026-04-02
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, and rail-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
allOne Agent is Enough
21 Mar 2026 · 7 min read
Why most people don't need five agents talking to each other. Skills, crons, playbooks, and memory in a single-agent setup that actually works.
Stop dodging the messy codebase
14 Mar 2026 · 4 min read
The rough codebases everyone avoids are where the real learning and visibility live. A recent dependency upgrade turned into a full cleanup and the team noticed.
I built grep for on-chain events
12 Mar 2026 · 5 min read
I kept doing the same thing at work. So I built the tool I wanted and put it on the internet.
Latest log
full log› 2026-03-29: Shipped the Open Markets mini-series with all episodes live on a dedicated site.
› 2026-03-25: Published a more agent-friendly pass across my CLI tools and refreshed the related skills.
› 2026-03-24: Shipped rail-cli as my third public-facing CLI tool for agent workflows.
› 2026-03-23: Set up self-hosted analytics across key projects to track everything from one dashboard.
› 2026-03-22: Shipped companies-house-cli and tfl-cli with dedicated landing pages.