Shahab
Mokhtari
I'm a backend engineer in Seattle. I like taking systems that run on one machine and spreading them across many, then making them faster and cheaper. Lately I spend my evenings building tools for AI agents.
Things I've built
Open-source projects, mostly tools that make AI agents safer and more useful. All of them are on GitHub.
- leash
- Watches the permission requests Claude Code and Copilot CLI make, and approves or blocks them using an LLM safety check. It comes with a web dashboard, tray notifications and a transcript browser.
- awesome-imap-mcp
- An MCP server that gives an agent full access to email: multiple accounts, a local cache, an undo queue for every operation, OAuth sign-in and a web dashboard. It works with Gmail, Outlook, Zoho, Fastmail and any IMAP provider.
- scruxy
- Middleware that sits in front of AI CLIs and scrubs personal information out of prompts before they leave your machine.
- todo-tracker
- A to-do list for people with ADHD that tells you what to do now. Your tasks stay in Markdown files you own, and it has native apps for every platform plus an MCP server.
- vs-il-viewer
- A Visual Studio extension that shows the IL and disassembly of your C# as you type.
How I got here
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Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer, Redmond.
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Government of Ontario & Corporate Renaissance Group
Owned performance and security for ORBIT, the Ministry of Finance's budgeting platform. Before and after that, built and sold a cloud data-extraction service used by several clients.
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CAA North & East Ontario
Designed NEO365, a workflow platform for roadside assistance and travel services.
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Canpars Immigration Services, Montreal
Built web, desktop and mobile apps, and led a small team spread across Canada and Iran.
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Mana Software Solutions, Tehran
Co-founded and ran a software studio shipping web, desktop and native mobile products.
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Tabriz University
B.Sc. in Materials Engineering. My undergraduate research on finite-element modeling of magnetic hysteresis was published in 2010.
I work mainly in C# and .NET, along with Python, TypeScript and Go, on Azure, Kubernetes, Cosmos DB and Redis. I speak English and some French.
Say hello
I'm glad to talk about distributed systems, performance work, or tooling for AI agents.
me@shahabm.com