Principal software engineer / Builder & writer
I’m Dilusha. I build platforms, backend systems, and products people use. I’ve been building software professionally since 2012, and I’m still curious enough to lose track of time making something work.
My work spans infrastructure, web and native apps, performance problems, and AI integrations. I help founders and teams build, improve, and ship software. Available for focused, part-time freelance projects.
Platforms / Backend systems / Web & native / AI
An observatory for ideas.
Engineer. Writer.01 / The workshop
A clear problem, a manageable scope, and someone who cares about the details.
Broken flows, unreliable APIs, slow queries, or that last feature between you and launch. Let’s find the cause and fix it properly.
Explore the work 02 / AI integration & automationConnect an AI model to your product or workflow, with useful outputs, sensible error handling, and attention to running costs.
Explore the work 03 / AWS & deployment supportHelp with deployment issues, environments, CI/CD, and the practical work of getting an existing app ready to ship.
Explore the workA few connected obsessions
Useful software, unlikely beginnings, and questions I haven’t finished asking. Pick a point on the map.
Built by me / AgentsEye
A native Mac app for usage limits, local history, and alerts across AI coding providers.
The interesting part is making different providers’ readings useful together, including reset windows, stale data, and updates that reach people after installation.
Built by me / Links on Link
A home for digital products, branded links, custom domains, and campaign analytics.
I built across the public page, creator dashboard, Stripe payments, and file delivery. Each part needs to agree about what someone bought and what happens next.
Built by me / MemoryCrib
A thinking studio for curious kids, built around writing, logic, puzzles, and memory palaces.
I’m building the experience and API with Angular and NestJS. Spatial memory is one way into a bigger question: how can a child practice an idea and find their way back to it? Currently in development, with a public waitlist.
Built by me / DeSlop
A tool for cutting filler, inspecting a rewrite, and keeping the final say over your words.
Model integration is only part of it. Accounts, usage limits, feedback, and clear contribution controls all shape whether someone can understand and trust the product.
From the notebook / Where it began
My first computer, in 2004. That’s where my engineering journey began.
By around 2006, I was making a calculator out of roughly 2,000 PowerPoint slides, before I understood what programming was. Seventeen hours later, it worked.
From the notebook / The universe
What can we know about the universe, and where does our imagination take over?
My notebook has room for speculative questions as well as software. This essay follows a late-night thought about black holes; it’s personal curiosity, not a scientific claim.
From the notebook / Mental models
What would have to be true for your plan to work? What happens if it isn’t?
A different question can expose an assumption you stopped noticing. The note library has prompts for second-order effects, incentives, reversibility, and the room a system needs when things go wrong.
From the notebook / Being human
Including the way you talk to yourself while you’re figuring things out.
The notebook is also where I write about patience, kindness, and the life happening around the work. You don’t have to be here for software.
Range / From systems to interfaces
I work across the platform, the application, and the experience people use. The tools change with the problem.
Platforms & infrastructure
Cloud infrastructure, repeatable environments, deployment pipelines, and production troubleshooting. I work with AWS, Terraform, and CI/CD, including release paths for web products and native apps.
Backend systems
Node.js, TypeScript, and NestJS. APIs, payments, background processing, data access, and performance work. My experience includes commerce products and financial processing where slow queries and system limits matter.
Web & native applications
React, Angular, and Astro for the web. Swift and SwiftUI for macOS. React Native and Expo for iPhone. Projects range from creator tools and learning experiences to menu-bar apps, widgets, and timers.
AI integration & experimentation
Model integrations, output validation, and evaluation of generated text. I also experiment with Python, LoRA, and QLoRA fine-tuning, including training and evaluating a writing-style adapter. That work is an experiment, not a claim that the quality problem is solved.
Experience / Behind the interface
A few problems I’ve worked through, the decisions they needed, and what came out of the work.
Financial systems / Reliability
A credit card statement-processing system was struggling to finish within its processing window. Bottlenecks, slow queries, and hard system limits constrained how much work it could get through.
I worked through those constraints with the team, finding several ways to optimize processing and improve slow queries. Where incremental changes were not enough, we rewrote parts of the system from scratch to address the performance problems.
The combination made processing faster and helped the system handle more work within its deadline. The engineering decision was where to improve what we already had, where a rewrite was justified, and how to get more out of a system with limits we still had to work within.
Company details, volumes, and implementation specifics stay private.
AgentsEye / Integration & reliability
Usage readings arrive with different limits and reset cycles. An old reading or a fresh quota window can tell the wrong story if treated as continued consumption.
I built the logic that distinguishes fresh, stale, and unavailable readings, tracks usage across reset cycles, and avoids repeating the same alert.
The app can show when a reading needs attention instead of presenting every refresh as a success. Local history, native widgets, and signed updates make that work useful beyond the first install.
Useful when a product depends on several integrations agreeing about what just happened.
Links on Link / Commerce
A public storefront, payment confirmation, and digital delivery need to agree about what someone bought and what they should receive.
I built across the creator dashboard and storefront, connected payments and delivery, and verified incoming payment notifications before processing them.
The product connects the customer-facing purchase flow with the work behind it, alongside custom domains and campaign analytics.
Useful when a polished interface needs a dependable path through the rest of the product.
DeSlop / AI product quality
A rewrite can sound better while changing a detail, a time reference, or the meaning of the original.
I worked on validation that compares proposed edits with the source, checks protected details and meaning, and keeps the result editable so the writer has the final say.
The workflow checks proposed changes rather than treating fluent output as proof of correctness. It combines automation with inspection and user control.
Useful when adding AI to a workflow where plausible output is not enough.
FastRight / Mobile & data continuity
A timer is simple until the app restarts, its data format changes, or a widget needs to show the same state as the app.
I built around saved timestamps, versioned data migrations, and shared app and widget state. Backup restoration validates the incoming data and keeps a recovery copy before replacing existing progress.
The app is designed to resume ongoing timers and preserve history across restarts and upgrades. People can manage their progress without creating an account.
Useful when software needs to remain dependable between sessions and across releases.
The person behind the pull request
I spent 17 hours making it work, before I even knew what programming was. That feeling never really left. Since then, my work has taken me through equipment manufacturing, e-commerce, and fintech.
This site is also where I think out loud about life, kindness, books, and the messy middle of making things. There’s room for all of it here.
A little more about meLife / Reflections
In 2013 it was just me, Sublime Text, and curiosity. No AI, no shortcuts. Just grind. Looking back now, I see how every small step shaped the life I have today.
Read the storyLife / Reflections
Scarcity teaches grit in ways abundance never will. Looking back, my best skills were forged when every click and every second online had a cost.
Read the storyLife / Reflections
George Bernard Shaw once wrote that there are two great tragedies in life: the first is not getting what you want, the second is getting it. He was right.
Read the storyA good place to start
A bug that won’t quit? An integration you haven’t had time for? Start with the problem. We’ll work out the next step.
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