Hi, I'm Shayon.
I'm a generalist software engineer based in Berlin, Germany.
I thrive in high-agency, low-bullshit environments, and I love taking on challenging problems.
I have a master's degree in mathematics, did research in AI alignment back in 2018, built a cybersecurity startup's platform from scratch, co-founded a startup and built its product end to end, and maintained about 100 packages in the nixpkgs ecosystem.
Some of my areas of expertise: frontend, full-stack development, machine learning, and AI-native engineering.
I'm looking for work. If you're building something ambitious and think I could help, get in touch.
A couple of recent fun side projects:
- Black October: an interactive look at a month of cybersecurity stories on Hacker News.
- Hacker Again: people keep building sites that collect things from Hacker News. I made a site that collects those sites.
"The telos of technology, we might say, is to allow us to accomplish more with less effort. If we extrapolate this internal directionality to its logical terminus, we arrive at a condition in which we can accomplish everything with no effort."
― Nick Bostrom, Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World