the forge is lit
Shashi Shankar
AI Systems & Platform Architect
Building production AI platforms, reliable agent systems, and Edge AI infrastructure — backed by 15+ years in C++, embedded systems, Android/AOSP, AAOS, and automotive platforms.
AI platform
inference gateways · model routing · evaluation · observability · reliability
Agent systems
orchestration · tool contracts · state · permissions · human oversight
Edge AI
on-device runtimes · quantization · CPU/GPU/NPU trade-offs · Android deployment
Systems foundation
C++ · Linux · Android framework · AAOS · embedded & connectivity platforms
The log
Engineering artefacts as they're forged — code, benchmarks, diagrams, decisions, failures. Some days one, some days several.
- Aug 30, 2026 The forge, audited meta
- Aug 26, 2026 800 kilobytes per token analysis
- Aug 21, 2026 The trace tells it back built
- Aug 17, 2026 ADR-002: Seeds over Hypothesis built
- Aug 14, 2026 Nobody chose these tests built
- Aug 10, 2026 The badge is a claim built
- Aug 9, 2026 Same trace, different guts built
- Aug 6, 2026 The lens, not the eraser built
- Aug 5, 2026 The model shows up built
- Aug 5, 2026 Replay is the feature built
- Aug 4, 2026 The harness gets a spine designed
- Aug 4, 2026 The Edge AI benchmark: protocol first, numbers later designed
- Aug 4, 2026 ADR-001: Python for the reference, C++ where it counts designed
- Aug 3, 2026 The model was never the product analysis
- Aug 3, 2026 Lighting the forge meta