Shan Singh Tinna

Language, computing, and My academic Journey

Available for software, design, and data consulting

Shan Singh Tinna

Language, Computing, and My Academic Journey.

Pieces and notes on language, software, data, and the formal habits that make systems legible.

From entrepreneurship and software into academic work on linguistics, computation, and data.

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  • What Your Sandwich Says About Your New York

    A few months ago, I got into the habit of asking people what they thought New York’s defining sandwich was. Most of them in one particular group answered “bacon, egg, and cheese.” A respectable answer. A delicious answer. And then I’d ask, with a kind of bait-and-switch energy I’m not proud of, “What about a…

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  • Back to Blogging, Somehow

    A class assignment is not the most romantic reason to return to blogging. I wish I could say that I was seized, one evening, by the old spirit of the open web: that I opened a blank page, felt the electric possibility of self-publication, and decided that the world needed my stray thoughts again. The…

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Selected work

Earlier systems and instruments.

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An academic mind with builder’s instincts.

I remain available for selective freelance work in software architecture, editorial systems, data products, research tooling, and design strategy.

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