Hi, I’m Shivam 👋

📍 Seattle | 💼 SDE @ Amazon | 🧰 Apache Airflow Contributor

Engineer. Airflow contributor. Perpetual learner. I write here so I remember the hard-won stuff.

I contribute to Apache Airflow (10 merged PRs and counting) and build small tools that scratch my own itches. Outside of tech, I read a lot and take book notes — you’ll find those under Life and Book Notes.

Recent writing

• 09 Apr, 2026
  Over-engineering an async AI voice chat app, on purpose
  Seven repos, four languages, Apache Pulsar on Kubernetes — and the honest reason the architecture looks like this.
• 06 Apr, 2026
  Fixing duplicate deadline callbacks in Airflow's HA scheduler
  A three-line fix, a subtle Postgres lock mode, and why HA bugs hide in single-session tests.