# Zain Wania

> Senior Staff Engineer. I build AI agents that help care coordinators match patients with caregivers.

Currently Senior Staff Engineer at Caribou, where I build AI systems that help care coordinators match patients with caregivers. My work uses Vapi, the AI SDK, and an agent-memory module I designed and built. Based in Toronto.

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## Pages

- [About](https://zainwania.dev/about): background, experience, and stack
- [Projects](https://zainwania.dev/projects): side projects and case studies
- [Writing](https://zainwania.dev/blog): essays
- [Uses](https://zainwania.dev/uses): hardware and software
- [CV](https://zainwania.dev/cv): printable résumé

## Writing

- [Build Today, Learn Tomorrow: In Defense of the Slop Fork](https://zainwania.dev/blog/build-today-learn-tomorrow-in-defense-of-the-slop-fork): I forked a React library, pointed AI at it, and had a Vue port working in an afternoon. It's a slop fork. It works. I'll take that trade.
- [The Effort Didn't Disappear — It Changed Shape](https://zainwania.dev/blog/the-effort-didnt-disappear-it-changed-shape): AI removed the typing, not the skill. Getting to the first 60% is easy now, so the last 40% is the only part anyone notices.
- [Replacing a 15MB Calendar Dependency With 76KB of Our Own](https://zainwania.dev/blog/killed-15mb-calendar-dependency-with-claude-plugin): We paid for Bryntum Calendar, fought it on every style change, and shipped 15MB of it. The replacement is 76KB, and a rough Claude Code plugin of mine helped get us there.

## Projects

- [zstack](https://github.com/Wania-Labs/zstack): Opinionated TypeScript product starter from Wania Labs. Cloudflare-first, TanStack Start, and Alchemy.
- [Mdow](https://zainwania.dev/projects/mdow): A calm desktop app for reading markdown and asking AI questions about files across a folder. Mdow connects to your existing OpenCode setup over ACP, with local context and clickable source citations.