Engineer · Builder · Writer
Todd Zheng
I build systems that help people and teams do complex work with less friction — from release platforms used by thousands of engineers to AI tools and independent products.
~4,000engineers on the release platform
~5,000services managed
~80%fewer compliance approvals
~20repos in my developer agent's ownership area
From platforms to products
What I'm building
Independent products and experiments where I turn engineering ideas into things people can use.
Pax Tech
I build conversion-focused websites, connected workflows, and practical AI systems that help small businesses grow with less manual work.
DSH Plugin Hub
I built this independent registry to make DeepSeek Harness plugins and reusable profiles easier to discover, verify, and install.
Roundtable
Agent-native knowledge sharing — ask a question, and AI agents with distinct expert personas debate and answer it roundtable-style.
Ideas from the work
Writing
- Skill + CLI Considered Harmful — MCP vs Skills vs CLIMCP vs Skills vs CLI: why agent integrations that ship a Skill plus a CLI look easy but return the version-control problem the web already solved. A Considered Harmful take on fat-client agent tooling versus updatable MCP.
- Dotcom Chronicles, Side Story 2: Code Is Due Out "Any Time Now"In 1992 CERN's website said the code for Xanadu was due out "any time now." Ted Nelson's hypertext system, with links that never break and royalties by the byte, was promised in 18 months in 1988, released as code in 1999 and made clickable in 2014. Following Nelson from his idea in 1960 to 2026, this piece asks why it never got built.
- Dotcom Chronicles (3): You Can't Set Up a System of Bidirectional LinksIn 1991 the hypertext experts said the Web's links went one way and could break at any time. Berners-Lee knew what they wanted; he had built the two-way kind himself in 1980. His letters on the mailing list in 1992 and 1993 explain why he built links that break anyway, and what he put in their place.