# Shailesh Shivam

> Senior software engineer building distributed systems, AI-integrated platforms, and enterprise infrastructure.

## About

Shailesh Shivam is a senior software engineer with 5 years of experience shipping production infrastructure at healthtech, fintech, and enterprise SaaS companies. He specializes in distributed systems, AI/ML integration, and full-stack TypeScript/Python development.

Based in India. Open to freelance and contract work (~20 hrs/week).

## Site

- Homepage: https://shaileshshivam.dev
- About: https://shaileshshivam.dev/about
- Work / Case Studies: https://shaileshshivam.dev/work
- Writing / Essays: https://shaileshshivam.dev/writing
- Digital Garden / Notes: https://shaileshshivam.dev/garden
- Hire: https://shaileshshivam.dev/hire
- Now (current focus): https://shaileshshivam.dev/now
- Uses (tools): https://shaileshshivam.dev/uses
- Colophon: https://shaileshshivam.dev/colophon
- RSS Feed: https://shaileshshivam.dev/feed.xml
- Sitemap: https://shaileshshivam.dev/sitemap-index.xml

## Writing (long-form essays)

- Building a PII Detection Engine with LLMs: https://shaileshshivam.dev/writing/building-pii-detection-engine-llms/
- Event-Driven Architecture for Wallet Monitoring: https://shaileshshivam.dev/writing/event-driven-architecture-wallet-monitoring/
- FHIR in Production vs. the Spec: https://shaileshshivam.dev/writing/fhir-production-vs-spec/
- Zero-Downtime Migration of 2M Documents: https://shaileshshivam.dev/writing/zero-downtime-migration-2m-documents/

## Digital Garden (short notes, varying maturity)

- The Right Abstraction Level (evergreen): https://shaileshshivam.dev/garden/right-abstraction-level/
- Writing Before Coding (evergreen): https://shaileshshivam.dev/garden/writing-before-coding/
- Event-Driven vs Polling (budding): https://shaileshshivam.dev/garden/event-driven-vs-polling/
- Observability Over Debugging (budding): https://shaileshshivam.dev/garden/observability-over-debugging/
- What Production Really Means (budding): https://shaileshshivam.dev/garden/what-production-really-means/
- Zero-Downtime Patterns (budding): https://shaileshshivam.dev/garden/zero-downtime-patterns/
- AI as Force Multiplier (seed): https://shaileshshivam.dev/garden/ai-as-force-multiplier/
- FHIR in Practice (seed): https://shaileshshivam.dev/garden/fhir-in-practice/

## Work / Case Studies

- Blockchain Transaction Indexing Pipeline: https://shaileshshivam.dev/work/blockchain-indexing
- Real-Time Data Flow Visualization: https://shaileshshivam.dev/work/data-flow-visualization
- FHIR Clinical API Platform: https://shaileshshivam.dev/work/fhir-clinical-api
- Healthcare Data Migration: https://shaileshshivam.dev/work/healthcare-migration
- Occupancy Planning System: https://shaileshshivam.dev/work/occupancy-planning
- PII Detection Engine: https://shaileshshivam.dev/work/pii-detection-engine

## Connect

- GitHub: https://github.com/shaileshshivam
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shailesh-shivam
- X: https://x.com/shaileshivam

## Technical Focus

TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, System Design, AI/ML Integration