# Shiv Rossi
> I'm Shiv Rossi, a Staff GenAI engineer focused on agentic systems, evals, and reliability.
> Agents are easy to make look impressive. It is much harder to make them reliable, useful, and worth deploying once users, workflows, and incentives get involved. I care about what breaks in real AI products, what matters operationally, and how to build systems that survive contact with reality.
> My background is in ML infrastructure and data systems — production platforms at Meta, early engineering at AI-native startups, and a lot of time spent on what happens after the demo stops working. I write about what I learn the hard way.