A working office in the back matter of a book that is mostly index.
rev. Oct 2026 · ---- · fol. 1Shimin Zhang — software engineer, tinkerer, occasional podcast host.
Shipping software professionally since 2012. Web applications, AI products, a little robotics, a lot of code that had to out-tenure the engineers who came after me[7]. Most recently at Charter, maintaining React Kite — the React component library behind the Kite Design System; before that FloQast, where I helped take Variance AI Explanation from prototype to production. These days I am studying full time: mechanistic interpretability, through the ARENA curriculum[18], and writing short lessons[9] as I go, with an AI as co-author.
I co-host Artificial Developer Intelligence[3], a weekly podcast about AI-assisted development. I keep a journal[14] / reading log, and tinker with AI projects on the side.
Home is the Kitsap Peninsula, with Meg the border collie and Romulus the blue Australian Shepherd[12].
The site is organised as a book’s back matter: the homepage is an index. Start at an entry that catches your eye.
General Index
Entries link to the Sheet (§i – §vii) and folio where the subject is treated. See and see also are italicised.
A
- Ai-on-Ai Arena iv · 25
- ARENA, self-study , see also Mechanistic interpretability vi · 29
- Artificial Developer Intelligence v · 21
- Atlanta, Georgia iii · 10
- Australian Shepherd, blue-merle , see Romulus
- AWS certifications ii · 5
B
- Big Picture Partners iv · 17
- Bit, one good question , see Entropy
- Blog , see Journal
- Border Collie , see Meg
C
- Center for Social Innovation , see also Forio ii · 6
- Charter Communications ii · 4
- Cross-entropy , see Entropy
E
- Entropy, cross-entropy, KL divergence viii · 35
F
G
- Georgia Institute of Technology ii · 7
- Golem Krang, robotic arm ii · 7
H
- Harvard Business School , see also Forio ii · 6
I
- Inhabited Design iv · 26
J
- Journal vii · 31
K
- Kata Club iv · 14
- Kite Design System ii · 4
- Kitsap Peninsula iii · 11
- KL divergence , see Entropy
L
- Lessons viii · 33
- Linear algebra , see Matrix multiplication
- Lumen Technologies ii · 6
M
- Matrix multiplication, six views of viii · 34
- Mechanistic interpretability , see also Lessons vi · 29
- Meg, border collie iii · 11
- Motivational Interviewing ii · 6
N
- New York City iii · 9
- NMF, patent data visualisation iv · 18
- Now , see also Studying vi
R
- Romulus, blue Australian Shepherd iii · 11
S
- San Francisco, California iii · 10
- Sandbagging, LLM vii · 32
- Seattle, Greater , see Kitsap Peninsula
- Software engineering, 2012– ii
- Studying, current vi · 29
V
- Variance AI Explanation ii · 4