About

Hi, I’m Shahab. I’m a programmer who likes building small, specific things for the web — the kind of tools that fit on one screen and explain themselves before you read the docs.

These days I spend most of my time at the edge — Cloudflare Workers, Pages, R2. The constraint of a tight runtime makes the programs better. I’d rather ship a thing that does one job well than a platform that promises everything.

I write mostly in TypeScript and a little Go. I care about the kind of software that wears its seams on the outside instead of hiding them.

Off the keyboard, I’m usually cooking, reading, playing the harmonica, or singing for anyone who’ll listen.

Work

  1. 2026

    thepdf.tools

    “PDF tools that can’t see your files.” Merge, split, organise, and images → PDF — all running entirely in the browser. No upload, no account.

    • Browser-only
    • No upload
    • Privacy-first

  2. 2025

    readpdf.ai

    Q&A and summaries for PDFs and EPUBs, with every answer cited by page number. Built for documents too dense to read end-to-end.

    • AI Q&A
    • PDF · EPUB
    • Page-cited

Contact

My inbox is open for interesting work, half-formed ideas, and the occasional good harmonica recommendation.

Say hello

Designed and built in Toronto · 2026