Ajay Prem Shankar

I enjoy building — products and teams.

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Currently

Principal Engineer at Atlassian, building Teams platform — the connective tissue across Jira, Confluence and the rest.

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Nights & Weekends

Side-projects I ship outside the day job. Here's what's live.

DTW

Software Studio

DoneThingWell

A software studio for minimal, single-purpose apps. One thing. Done well.

Focused Writer — Distraction-free writing for macOS

ISTAB — Enforced screen breaks that actually work

BonsaiDash — Productivity new tab for Chrome

SwiftSwiftUIChrome Extension

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Raycast Extensions

Vim Bro

Search Vim commands instantly

18k+ downloads

Projects

Quick access to local dev projects by type

700+ downloads

Trello

contributor

Manage Trello boards from Raycast

5.7k+ downloads

Open Source & Learning

termo

Record and run terminal macros from CLI

Python

barebones-redis

Redis server from scratch to learn internals

Python

py-git

Git implementation to understand version control

Python

barebones-http-server

HTTP server from scratch for protocol learning

Python

Writings

An attempt to think on paper.

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A country built on convicts. A land of saints electing criminals.May 28, 2026 How I readMay 10, 2026 How to take in gurus and mentors?May 9, 2026 Reading made me miss writingApr 26, 2026

Captures

When I'm not shipping code, I'm chasing light.

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Let's Connect

I love brainstorming ideas and life challenges with people.
If that sounds like you, let's talk.

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