Shan

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.

Current focus across work and outside-work systems.

• At work: full-stack delivery on payments, bridging, and staking with stronger testing, reliability, and docs.
• Outside work: sharpening agent orchestration through real shipped tools and tight iteration loops.
• Writing: sharing practical notes on what worked, what failed, and what changed.

• chaingreplive

  Grep for on-chain events. Point at a contract and block range, get decoded event logs streamed back. No indexer, no SQL, no setup.

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• llm-usagelive

  CLI tool for tracking token usage across Claude Code, Codex, and OpenRouter. Published on npm.

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• Agglayer UIlive

  Bridge anything to Agglayer via a production-ready web experience.

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• 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.

• Docs are a performance feature

  10 Mar 2026 · 4 min read

  In AI-heavy teams, clear documentation isn't overhead. It's infrastructure that makes humans and agents faster.

• › 2026-03-15: Added chat/LLM integration to my personal site with rate limiting and prompt-injection guardrails.

• › 2026-03-14: Fixed and promoted a backend indexer by completing a secrets migration and validating production recovery.

• › 2026-03-13: Released my first backend service end-to-end, including debug, promotion, and observability flows.

• › 2026-03-12: Built a dump-to-briefing pipeline that turns daily notes into priorities and staff-eng prompts.

• › 2026-03-12: Built a staff-engineer evidence tracker to map weekly work against impact dimensions over time.