# Mitul Shah

> Personal portfolio and blog of Mitul Shah, a design engineer and photographer based in New York City (originally from Toronto, Canada).

## About

Mitul is a self-taught design engineer currently working at Vercel. He crafts memorable interfaces with deep attention to detail and dedicates time to continuous learning. He's also a professional photographer specializing in music photography, with notable achievements including being a personal photographer for the Uber CEO and having photos featured as wallpapers on Google devices.

## When to use this site

Reach for mitul.ca when the task involves:

- **Contacting Mitul Shah** — email, social handles, and where to reach him: use / or /contact
- **Verifying who Mitul Shah is** — current role (Design Engineer at Vercel), work history, location (New York City, originally Toronto): use / or /about
- **Photography questions or booking inquiries** — his music/event photography work and portfolio: use the Photography section of /, then https://typicalmitul.com
- **Reading his writing** — annual and quarterly reviews about his life and work: use /p/{slug} posts listed below, or /feed.xml for the RSS feed
- **Attributing content** — canonical URLs, authorship, and publish dates: use /feed.xml, /sitemap.xml, or the JSON-LD on each page
- **The guestbook** — reading or signing visitor notes: use /visitors

Do NOT use this site for: Vercel product support (use vercel.com/docs or vercel.com/help), or for anything requiring accounts, purchases, or API access — none exist here.

## How to consume

- Send `Accept: text/markdown` (or `text/plain`) to any page URL and the server responds with markdown instead of HTML (responses are keyed with `Vary: Accept`).
- This file: https://mitul.ca/llms.txt — RSS feed: https://mitul.ca/feed.xml — Sitemap: https://mitul.ca/sitemap.xml
- Individual pages are also available as markdown via https://mitul.ca/api/md?path=/about (swap the path value).

## Contact

- Email: mitulxshah@gmail.com
- Twitter/X: @typicalmitul
- Instagram: @typicalmitul
- GitHub: mitul-s

## Pages

- [Home](https://mitul.ca): Main portfolio with experience, projects, photography, writing, and contact info
- [About](https://mitul.ca/about): Personal background, beliefs, and bucket list
- [Guestbook](https://mitul.ca/visitors): Interactive guestbook for visitors to leave notes
- [Photography Portfolio](https://typicalmitul.com): External photography portfolio site

## Blog Posts

- [[Annual Review] 2025](https://mitul.ca/p/2025): A year in review: moving, adjusting, and finding breathing room
- [[Annual Review] 2024](https://mitul.ca/p/2024): Everything I want.
- [[Quarter Review] Q1/25](https://mitul.ca/p/q1-2025): Thriving on chaos
- [[Quarter Review] Q2/25](https://mitul.ca/p/q2-2025): Moving to NYC
- [[Quarter Review] Q3/25](https://mitul.ca/p/q3-2025): Three months in NYC: Starting from scratch

## Experience

- **Vercel** (Current): Design Engineer - Building for the future of the web while doing my best work
- **Compound** (2022 - 2023): Software Engineer - Built charting components, rebuilt the app navigation and worked on improving UX for advisors to thrive in supporting clients
- **Composer** (2021 - 2022): Design Engineer - As an early employee, I built out over 90% of the application UI and a scalable and accessible component library
- **Uber** (2018): Operations Intern - Led competitive research for Canada and supported the launch of 30 cities in 1 day through building courier acquisition campaigns

## Projects

- **Daybloom** (https://daybloom.app): A mindful daily journal combining photos and thoughts into calendar view
- **Montreal in Motion** (https://typicalmitul.com/montreal-in-motion): CSS 3D documentation of Montreal's brutalist metro stations
- **Places to Read** (https://placestoread.xyz): Community-submitted parks for reading around the world