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: 2026-04-20
// 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, and fuel-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
allAgents 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.
I tried multi-agent orchestration and it was shit
08 Apr 2026 · 5 min read
The honest failure story of building a mission control style multi-agent setup, watching it fall over, and going back to boring workflows that actually work.
// Latest log
full log› 2026-04-19: Shipped Parliament CLI, then published the companion site, Shan skill, and Clawhub skill.
› 2026-04-19: Revived the Giles dashboard and API projects, and added analytics into the UI.
› 2026-04-17: Kept the Portal refactor moving, with the Redux to React Query migration now in a much better place.
› 2026-04-16: Merged template/docs PRs and landed the first Portal migration tooling slice to staging.
› 2026-04-14: Shipped Polygon Liquid Staking and Portal to production, then fixed the immediate bugs.