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Jainam Shah

Now

A living page—updated roughly monthly. Inspired by the /now movement: what has my attention right now.

Updated 2026-07

Working on

Refining how I write about systems and product work—turning internship and research notes into clear case studies. Building this site as a place to think in public.

Learning

Reinforcement learning fundamentals, and how compiler-style optimizations show up in everyday performance work.

Reading

Designing Data-Intensive Applications — slowly, with notes on replication and consistency models.

Thinking about

AI-native software engineering: where models help, where they hide complexity, and how to keep systems inspectable.

Listening to

Instrumental focus playlists while coding; occasional long-form interviews with builders.

Also see Reading for books with takeaways.