Writing
Thoughts on software engineering, cloud architecture, and building products.
Why, What, How, When, So far...
Reflections on early engineering career, lessons across startup and enterprise environments, navigating the AI panic, and finding conviction when the work stops moving.
When Two Tools Make the Same Decision: What Google I/O 2026 Is Actually Telling Software Engineers
Reflections on Google I/O 2026 and Cursor 3—how two major AI coding tools independently decided to deprecate the IDE in favor of agent dashboards.
Nexora 2025: Unfiltered Lessons on Business, Failure, and Building a Legacy
Reflections from Nexora 2025—lessons on competition, AI, failure, and building legacies from Sri Lanka's top entrepreneurs.
How I Cut AWS Debugging Time by 90% as an Intern (With Zero Prior Cloud Experience)
How I built a serverless AWS monitoring dashboard as an intern, cutting debugging time from 20 minutes to 2 minutes.
Five Years of Evolution: My Portfolio Journey from Pandemic Curiosity to Production
A student's story of growth through 5 years of portfolio development—from pure HTML in 2021 to production-grade Astro in 2026.