Hi, I'm Shyal 👋
Senior software engineer. Pipeline infrastructure for VFX studios, and lately LLM products.
About
I write software for film and VFX studios and, more recently, for products built on language models. At MPC, Prime Focus and Cinesite I built pipeline tools and the infrastructure under them. At the AI Objectives Institute I built Talk to the City, an LLM interface for collective decision-making. I co-founded FlowPilot Studio, a SaaS for VFX studios, and I run Claude Code Manila, a fortnightly meetup where teams build and deploy an app in a session.
Work Experience
Skills
Python
TypeScript
Rust
C++
SQL
FastAPI
PostgreSQL
Supabase
Redis Streams
RabbitMQ
Celery
SvelteKit
Svelte 5
Tailwind
AWS
Vercel
Docker
NGINX
GitHub Actions
Grafana Loki
Linux
Claude API
LLM pipelines
UMAP
HDBSCAN
BERTopic
SOC2 Type 2
MPAA
Projects
Selected work
Two LLM products, a community, and two open-source tools from the VFX years.
Claude Code Manila
A fortnightly in-person meetup in Manila. Teams build and deploy an app around a topic each session and are scored against a rubric. 700+ members.
Claude Code
RAG
Agents