I build AI systems for a living, and teach what actually works.

I'm Shobhan. I've been writing software professionally since 2018. I started as a web developer, went deep into AWS and serverless architecture, spent years on identity and security systems, and now work as a forward-deployed AI engineer: I sit close to the problem and build the agentic systems that solve it.

The pattern I keep seeing: building an impressive AI demo takes a weekend; making it reliable, affordable and safe takes real engineering. Evals, guardrails, harness design, cost control, deployment. That's the part almost nobody teaches, so that's what I teach.

I think of myself as a harness engineer. I don't train models. I build the systems around them that make them useful. I also work AI-native every day, and I'm convinced the engineers and teams who learn to work this way will outpace everyone else.

Outside the day job I make courses, write here every week, and post short lessons for developers on Instagram.