Principal software engineer / Builder & writer
I’m Dilusha, a principal software engineer. I’ve been building software professionally since 2012. Still curious enough to lose track of time making something work.
I help founders and small teams fix stubborn bugs, connect AI to useful workflows, and get web apps ready for the real world. Available for focused, part-time freelance projects.
Node.js / TypeScript / React / AWS / AI integrations
Calendar time from 1 January 2012.
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.
Experience / Behind the interface
A few problems I’ve worked through, across professional systems and my own products.
Financial systems
I worked on a credit card statement-processing system that was struggling to finish within its processing window. I helped scale the system and fix processing problems so it could handle more work.
That experience shaped how I approach reliability: the job has to finish when people depend on it. Company details, volumes, and implementation specifics stay private.
AgentsEye / Integration & reliability
AI coding providers report limits and reset windows differently. In AgentsEye, I brought those readings into one native Mac app, with local history and alerts that account for quota resets.
The details matter: an alert must distinguish a new usage cycle from continued consumption. I also built the widgets and signed update path needed to keep the app useful beyond its first install.
Links on Link / Commerce
For Links on Link, I built across the public page, creator dashboard, payments, and digital delivery. A storefront needs those pieces to agree about what someone bought and what they should receive.
That meant working through Stripe integration and verified payment webhooks alongside custom domains and campaign analytics. The interface is one part of the system that supports it.
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.
Find out how we can work together