Shikher Jha · Systems and product engineer
Software thatkeeps itspromises.
I’m a founding engineer at Samora (YC W26), the founder of StoreOS, and I’m joining Amazon. I build the unglamorous machinery (orchestrators, control planes, state machines) that lets a product keep working when the real world doesn’t.
reconciled driftedEvery dot is a resource. Move through the field and it drifts out of spec; the control loop sweeps across and reconciles it. Turn sound on to hear it play.
01Now
Two things in motion, one on the way.
Voice-AI platform where human operators can step into any call. I work on the hand-off layer, the reliability of live calls and the observability underneath.
Shipping
The agentic operating system for ecommerce. AI proposes changes to a real store; people approve, apply and undo them. Building it alongside the day job.
In private beta
Amazon
Incoming SDE
Joining as a software development engineer. Until then: keep learning how systems behave at the scale I haven’t operated yet.
Starting soon
02Pattern
Same problem, different clothes.
Almost everything I’ve built is one question in disguise: how does a system find its way back to the state it promised, after the world changed underneath it? The answers rhyme.
01
State is a claim, not a fact.
Observe what is actually there, diff it against what should be, act on the difference, then do it again. Loops beat scripts.
- StoreOSOperators reconcile every tenant store toward its desired state: 10+ parallel provisions at >99% success with zero orphaned resources.
- SamoraReaper and reconciliation logic recovers stale jobs, abandoned sessions and half-finished workflows.
02
Every write can be retried.
Networks drop, workers die, users double-click. If a second attempt can do damage, the design isn’t finished.
- SamoraIdempotent state transitions across the Temporal-based human-layer orchestration.
- StoreOSEvery mutation carries an idempotency key and moves through a typed state machine.
03
Humans are part of the system.
The interesting failures are at the seam between software and a person. Design the hand-off, not just the happy path.
- SamoraOperator takeover and handback mid-call, with a reaper that recovers hand-offs nobody answered.
- StoreOSAgents only propose. A person previews, approves and applies, and can always undo.
04
If you can’t see it, it isn’t running.
Observability is a feature of the first version, not a cleanup task for the third.
- SamoraService-wide tracing and alerting across Lambda, ECS and databases; one call ID joins logs and traces end to end.
- TealboxStructured pipelines and alerts that took manual toil down by 90%.
03Work
Systems I’ve shipped, with the receipts.
2026 to now
Voice AI infrastructure
Founding engineer
Samora↗
Omnichannel voice-AI platform with human operators in the loop. I own the hand-off layer, live-call reliability and the observability beneath it.
- Channels
- Voice · SMS · WhatsApp · Email · Web chat
- Orchestration
- Temporal, idempotent transitions
2026 to now
Agentic ecommerce OS
Founder
StoreOS↗
The agentic operating system for ecommerce: AI proposes changes to a live store; a person previews, approves and applies it, and can undo it.
- Tenancy
- Database-enforced, fails closed
- Prototype
- 10+ parallel provisions · >99% · 0 orphans
2026
High-signal job discovery
Co-builder
Signal↗
Turns 50–70 daily unstructured hiring signals into schema-validated jobs and ranks them against your résumé.
- Users
- 100+ concurrent
- Feed latency
- ≈60% lower
2026
AI returns & recommerce
Architect
Relay↗
Routes returned products to their best second life across seven channels: value, carbon, demand and chain-of-custody in one decision engine.
- Disposition channels
- 7
- Matching
- Retrieve → rerank, HNSW
May to Jul 2026
Geospatial ML pipeline
SDE intern
Auric AI
Owned the loop from satellite imagery to annotation to model to results.
- FastAPI data services that expose TIFF imagery, CVAT annotations, model outputs and correctly mapped metadata.
- A hybrid automated + manual QC engine on the CVAT developer APIs, with layered rule checks and reviewer workflows.
- Rasterio pipelines for re-rendering, four-band conversion, resampling and tiling; deployed end to end.
- Promoted QC-approved annotations into CV training sets and mapped inference back to source imagery.
May to Sep 2025
Backend & automation
Backend & automation engineer
Tealbox Digital
Production FastAPI backend and Slack-native AI automations.
- Manual toil
- −90%
- Analyst effort
- −80%
- REST APIs, webhooks, Redis-backed async pipelines and Dockerised services on Railway and GCP.
- Slack-native automations: analytics, competitor intelligence and landing-page optimisation with LLM agents and vector retrieval.
2025
Adaptive education system
Architect
AxonAI
Five LangGraph agents (Tutor, Planner, Evaluator, Memory, Wellbeing) behind one adaptive learning loop.
- Uptime
- 99.9%
- UI latency
- −40%
- Persistent cross-session memory on Pinecone plus relational storage for pathway-aware reasoning.
- Optimised RAG, caching and state management to cut UI latency by 40%.
Also built
- AirShare↗Real-time airport ride pooling: greedy-insertion matching under seat, luggage and detour limits.
- Ledger-Flow↗Referral rewards on an immutable ledger; rules are declarative, reversals are first-class.
- Multi-time-frame trading↗A live bot that is the backtester on rolling data. Parity over signal hype.
- Async ingestion pipeline↗Multi-user LLM ingestion with validation and fault tolerance.
- Host integrity client↗Windows research prototype scoring VM and remote-access evasion.
04Log
A changelog, newest first.
Upcoming
Amazon
Software Development Engineer
Incoming.
2026 to now
Samora AI (YC W26)
Founding engineer · Bengaluru
Human-in-the-loop layer, live-call reliability and observability for an omnichannel voice-AI platform.
2026 to now
StoreOS
Founder · storeos.in
Agentic operating system for ecommerce. Go core, tenant isolation in the database, agents on Temporal.
May to Jul 2026
Auric AI
Software Development Engineer Intern · Remote
Owned the geospatial annotation → model → results pipeline end to end.
May to Sep 2025
Tealbox Digital
Backend & Automation Engineer Intern · Remote
Production FastAPI backend and Slack-native AI automations; −90% manual toil.
2023 to 2027
GGSIPU, EDC
B.Tech, Computer Science · Delhi
CGPA 9.01 / 10. Algorithms, operating systems, networks, machine learning, deep learning.
05Proof
Numbers other people keep.
4th
Amazon HackOn 6.0
National finalist. 4th of 70,000+ registrants, Top 7 at the finale.
#11
QuadEye Market Data Prediction
Global rank 11 of 3,000+ participants.
LLM
Snorkel AI
Technical consultant on LLM benchmarking CLI tooling.
E-olymp
Problem curator
Writing and vetting competitive-programming problems.
Competitive programming
Fetched on the server · 2026-10-03
- Codeforces ↗Expert
- 1631peak 1644
- LeetCode ↗Knight
- 2000top 2.7% · 432 solved
- CodeChef ↗4★
- 1846rated contests
Codeforces rating, every contest
Also: TCS CodeVita Round 2 rank 895 of 20K · Meta Hacker Cup rank 1531 · Codeforces and LeetCode shown above are fetched live; CodeChef is a snapshot.
06Stack
Tools, with receipts.
Where a tool has a name beside it, that’s where I’ve used it in anger. Where it doesn’t, it’s something I’m comfortable picking up, not something I’ll claim.
Languages
- GoSamora, StoreOS, Relay
- PythonEverything backend & AI
- TypeScriptStoreOS web, Signal
- SQLPostgres everywhere
- C++Competitive programming
- Java
- Shell
Orchestration & messaging
- TemporalSamora, StoreOS agents
- RiverSamora escalations
- Celery + RedisRelay, Signal
- RabbitMQSignal
- Kafka
- gRPC
- LiveKit · SIP · WebRTCSamora voice
Platform
- KubernetesStoreOS
- Operators (Kopf, kubebuilder)StoreOS
- HelmStoreOS
- AWS · ECS · Lambda · EKSSamora, StoreOS
- GCPStoreOS prototype, Tealbox
- DockerEverywhere
- OpenTofuStoreOS infra
- CI/CDGitHub Actions
Data
- PostgreSQL · RLS · pgvectorStoreOS, Relay, Signal
- RedisSignal, Relay, Tealbox
- MongoDBAuric
- Elasticsearch
- ClickHouse
- PineconeAxonAI
AI engineering
- Agents (Pydantic AI, LangGraph)StoreOS, AxonAI
- RAG & rerankRelay, Signal, AxonAI
- LLM-as-judge & evalsSamora
- Embeddings & vector searchRelay (Titan), Signal
- BedrockRelay
- BYOK gatewaysSignal
- MCP
Reliability
- DatadogSamora
- OpenTelemetrySamora, StoreOS
- CloudWatchSamora
- Prometheus · GrafanaSamora
- Sentry
- Idempotency & reconciliationAll of the above
Product surface
- Next.js · ReactStoreOS, this site
- TailwindAll front-ends
- MedusaStoreOS storefronts
- Playwright · SeleniumTealbox
- n8nTealbox
07Under the hood
The site is also a spec.
A portfolio is the one product where you can’t blame the roadmap. So this one is built the way I’d want a production surface built.
Rendered on the server
The HTML you received already contains every word on this page. JavaScript adds the lattice and the sound, nothing else.
One canvas, one lazy engine
A single client canvas that sleeps when off-screen. The audio engine is a separate chunk that doesn’t download until you press play, and never touches React.
Live data without client fetches
The rating chart is fetched on the server, cached for a day, and drawn as SVG with no chart library. If the API is down, it renders a dated snapshot instead of an empty box.
One source of truth
This page, the case studies, the printable résumé, the share cards and the structured data all read one typed content file.
Calm by default
Sound is opt-in. Reduced-motion is respected. It works without JavaScript. Every control is keyboard reachable.
Measured · 2026-10-03 · production build
- Lighthouse · mobile · throttled
- Performance 96 · Accessibility 100 · Best practices 100 · SEO 100
- Stability
- Layout shift 0 · Total blocking time 0 ms
- Smoothness
- Steady 60 fps, p99 frame 18.6 ms, no long tasks, under sustained pointer input with sound running
- Payload (gzip)
- HTML 36 KB · first-load JS 178 KB (React + Next runtime) · fonts 106 KB · audio engine 2.6 KB, only after you press play
08Contact
Let’s build something that holds.
I talk to founders, investors and teams building things that have to work when it counts. If that’s you, write. I read everything.