# Now - Joel Saji's Current Work and Learning

> What Joel Saji is working on now: current projects, learning focus, and writing from a Toronto software developer building fast products for the web.

Canonical: https://www.joelcsaji.com/now

Updated 2026-09-10. Shipping founder-led products, learning agent patterns, and writing about craft that holds up in production.

## Work

- Church Grid: church operations with a calm, usable admin
- Moment Gallery: photography portfolio and inquiry flows
- Waveform Apps: AI-powered web products for teams that need to ship
- Focused builds where UX quality and delivery speed both matter

## Learning

- Agent architectures, tool calling, and retrieval with clear guardrails
- TanStack Start and server-first React on Cloudflare Workers
- Performance work that shows up in real user journeys

## Building

- This site: portfolio, writing, and case studies on Cloudflare
- Small open-source fixes in the React and TypeScript ecosystem
- Prototypes that validate AI ideas before heavy infrastructure

## Writing

- Essays on product engineering, AI in practice, and interface craft
- Notes from founder-led products
- Patterns I reuse across client and personal work

## Life

- Based in Toronto
- Local tech community and occasional speaking
- Faith, family, and long-term craft over hype cycles