shifan, from the arabic shifā (شفاء), "healing."
i like systems where the numbers have to add up. money, markets, machines that write code. building in the open, mostly at night.
uptime
23.921348134 yrs
23.921348134 yrs
work
paycom — software developer II, crm team
backend crm services and internal tools.
alpha kappa psi — co-founder, vp finance
founded the lambda chi chapter and ran its finances.
resi media — software engineer intern
content library team. backend apis for the live-streaming pipeline.
resi media — software engineer intern
media team. rtmp pipeline work for youtube and twitch.
aga khan foundation — intern
wash and education outreach in hyderabad.
a few things i've learned so far, mostly the hard way.
- →sleep is a performance optimization.
- →the gym is therapy.
- →you will not remember the thing you're anxious about in a year. you will remember who showed up.
writingall →
concurrency in practicesepordering without global ordersepap2 and x402sepagentic paymentssepwhat inference actually costsaugwhy the cross desk has nothing real-time in itaugfinding the bug that let a $70 account send $500augprojects
meterline
prepaid usage billing. metered once, tiered pricing, auto-recharge, reconciliation that catches drift.signal-router
lead router into hubspot. enrichment, icp scoring, owner routing, nightly drift check.bakeoff
race coding agents on your real issues. merge the winner.tally
double-entry ledger in java. idempotency keys, row-level locking, balance enforced by postgres.tickstream
go services streaming exchange data into kafka, on aks with terraform.gridloom
byok image studio. one prompt across 13 models, keys never leave the browser.qs509
post-quantum crypto primitives in go. capstone with l3harris.the cross desk
coming soon.the plot– / 400 pixels claimed
everyone who visits gets one pixel. pick a color, leave a line, hover to read the others.
yours is at . it stays.
stack
- go
- java
- python
- typescript
- postgres
- kafka
- redis
- spring boot
- kubernetes
- docker
- claude code
- cursor
- opencode
- react
education
texas a&m — b.s. computer science
business concentration. distinguished student, three semesters.
contributions