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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
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![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.

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*This summary was generated with the help of [Anthropic's Opus 5](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5).*
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