Ajay Prem Shankar

I build things for the internet.
Sometimes I chase light instead.

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What I'm Building

I ship products on nights and weekends. 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

16k+ downloads

Projects

Quick access to local dev projects by type

600+ downloads

Trello

contributor

Manage Trello boards from Raycast

5k+ 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

The Day Job

Principal Engineer with 12+ years building at scale. Currently at Atlassian.

Leading teams, shipping platforms, mentoring engineers. I care about building systems that scale and teams that thrive.

Distributed systems & platform engineering
Technical leadership & mentorship
Product-minded engineering

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Atlassian

Reads

Notes on things that made me think.

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Captures

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

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Let's Connect

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