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SHIBEN

I build systemsthat make complicated thingseasier to understand.
Software engineerBangalore, India

00 / INTRODUCTION

Software is one part of the system.Attention, judgment, and curiosity are the rest.

I build iOS apps, work on infrastructure, and make side projects that solve problems I run into myself. This is the map behind that work.

01 / WHAT I WORK ON

Everything connects.

A working map for building useful things and making sharper choices.

  1. 01Softwaretools that reduce friction
  2. 02Systemsboundaries that survive stress
  3. 03Attentionthe quality of the signal
  4. 04Photographypractice in noticing
  5. 05Experimentslearning in public

02 / SELECTED BUILDS

Build the thing you wish existed.

Small, opinionated tools with a single job and a clear surface.

PROJECT 001 / LIVE

Monitor

Next.js / Vercel / operational dashboard

A focused operational view for keeping an eye on important signals without opening a full dashboard stack.

Open Monitor ↗
MONITOR / SITUATION
SIGNALContext,
made visible.
WEB / OPERATIONAL VIEWLIVE

002

Live / Next.js / Vercel / time utility

Countdown

Countdown for GTA 6 but later will have something more profound.

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003

Live / React / OPA / Rego / Vercel

Rego Dojo

A hands-on learning space for people new to Open Policy Agent, with guided Rego exercises and feedback loops that make policy authoring easier to practice.

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004

Released / TypeScript / WebGL (three.js) / Suno / Claude Code

HSR → Bellandur

A 35-second music video about my office commute: 288 hours a year in a cab on the ORR. Every frame is drawn by code and synced word by word to an AI-generated song.

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View the project index ↗

03 / ENGINEERING SYSTEMS

Ask sharper questions under stress.

Metrics explain shape. Logs explain texture. Traces explain path. A stack only matters when its boundaries are clear enough to reason about.

Explore experience ↗
  1. 01
    Kubernetesworkloads / networking / policy
  2. 02
    Prometheusmetrics explain shape
  3. 03
    Grafana + Lokidashboards / logs / texture
  4. 04
    OpenTelemetryinstrument once / route clearly
  5. 05
    Tempotraces explain path
01

Kubernetes

Pods, deployments, services, ingress, config, secrets, observability, security contexts, and Pod Security Standards.

clusters / workloads / networking / policy
02

Observability

Metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, SLOs, incident debugging, Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.

signals / dashboards / incidents / SLOs
03

AI agents

Tool boundaries, memory, deterministic workflows, evaluation, human approval loops, and agentic debugging surfaces.

tools / memory / evals / control
04

iOS architecture

SwiftUI, navigation, app state, local models, Supabase clients, maps, and humane interaction details.

SwiftUI / state / maps / mobile UX
05

Backend APIs

Auth, validation, database contracts, background work, integration edges, rate limits, and deployable service boundaries.

contracts / auth / jobs / reliability
06

Databases

Schema design, indexes, RLS, migrations, analytics queries, Postgres extensions, and data modeling from product behavior.

Postgres / RLS / indexes / analytics
07

Security

Secrets, least privilege, input boundaries, data access rules, transport assumptions, and operational blast radius.

trust / secrets / RLS / blast radius
08

Personal finance automation

Expense ledgers, transaction parsing, category drift, compounding habits, and software that makes tradeoffs visible.

ledger / parsing / habits / tradeoffs

04 / OUTSIDE THE TERMINAL

Attention is a practice.

A father and child walking through shallow surf on the Kerala coast
AT THE WATERLINEKERALA COAST
Fishermen crossing Kochi harbour in a blue boat
HARBOUR CROSSINGKOCHI

Photography slows the system down.

Structures, movement, and the quiet space in between.
Enter the photo journal ↗

05 / PRINTS

Made of many small marks.

Generative prints in plain JavaScript. They’re built from thousands of strokes, a few inks and a seed, and drawn live as you watch.

001Cheena valaFort Kochi, dusk
002Pulli kolamA doorstep, Bangalore
004Warp ikatAfter the looms of Pochampally
Enter the print room ↗

06 / CURRENT EXPERIMENTS

The system is never finished.

Current inputs, measured over a longer horizon.

01

Mental clarity

Meditation, attention, emotional resilience, and learning how to act from a higher mental plane without becoming abstract.

attention quality
02

Fitness

Strength, energy, sports, and sustainable physical confidence that supports the rest of the system.

energy baseline
03

Learning

Japanese, art, systems, and deep technical understanding treated as a long, compounding notebook.

study surface

07 / OPEN CHANNEL

Let’s compare notes.

Email me ↗

◈ SHIBENBANGALORE / INDIA2026