diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml index a1a373c..5beb699 100644 --- a/_config.yml +++ b/_config.yml @@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ title: Jaysinh's own heed email: jaysinhp@gmail.com description: > # this means to ignore newlines until "baseurl:" - I am a Full-stack developer by profession, Computer scientist by heart - and an Actor by gene. I write mostly on programming topics. Browse through - my blog posts to identify my taste of writing. + Software Engineer at Amazon, building large-scale distributed systems in the + transportation and finance domains. I write about distributed systems, + engineering leadership, and generative AI — passing on whatever I learn. # Served at the root of the custom domain in CNAME, so there is no subpath. baseurl: "" # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog diff --git a/about.md b/about.md index e1f092f..4d02a77 100644 --- a/about.md +++ b/about.md @@ -7,12 +7,20 @@ permalink: /about/ ![my_image]({{ site.url}}{{ site.baseurl }}/assets/images/my_profile_picture.jpg) -Hi, I am Full-stack developer by profession, Computer scientist by heart and -Actor by gene. I speak at local events, meetup or any technical conferences. -I love to conduct lectures on any specific topic for college students. I am -organizer of PyKutch. You can consider innovative programming as one of my -hobby. In my free time I try to digest top rated programming books recommended -by goodreads. I prefer to communicate via electronic mail, IRC over physical. -I support The Free Software Foundation and always insist the point of user’s -Freedom. I am astonished by the contribution of the GNU community and openly -thank them for giving us such a useful things. +I am **Jaysinh Shukla**, a Software Engineer at Amazon. For more than ten years I have +designed and run distributed systems in the transportation and finance industries — +services that move invoices, payments, and freight data at a scale where every edge case +eventually happens. + +What holds my attention these days: distributed systems, engineering leadership, and +generative AI. I mentor engineers, and watching them earn their next promotion is the work +I am proudest of. I have spoken at conferences across India, Germany, and Taiwan, and +taught Python to students at more than fifteen colleges. All of it comes from the same +instinct that keeps this blog alive: learn something, then hand it to someone else. + +Away from the terminal I am the father of a beautiful daughter, who is teaching me how to +learn again — to look at everything from a fresh perspective. + +--- + +*This summary was generated with the help of [Anthropic's Opus 5](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5).*