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Things I've built, shipped, and occasionally abandoned

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Enki

Intelligent bookmarking app that uses AI to organize and surface saved content. 1,200+ users across web and iOS, 170+ monthly active users. Started as a personal tool for managing research notes, now used by people with 700+ saved assets each.

TypeScript Swift AI

palette-lab

Interactive design tool for creating and testing color schemes. Live preview in a realistic UI mockup, exports CSS variables, and uses Claude for AI-generated palette recommendations. Single HTML file, no build required.

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HTML JavaScript Claude AI

TopPics

Chrome extension that uses on-device AI to find and remove duplicate photos from Google Photos. 80+ users, freemium model with paid tier. Shipped to Chrome Web Store and Product Hunt. Built because I hit 94% storage and no existing tool worked without uploading my photos to someone else's server.

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TypeScript WebGPU DinoV2

Forge

Batteries-included framework for shipping SaaS without drowning in infrastructure. Auth, jobs, workflows, rate limiting, observability, idempotency out of the box. Write your business logic in Rust, Forge generates type-safe Svelte clients with realtime updates.

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Rust Svelte Platform

WorkFlow

Project management app built with Blazor and TailwindCSS. Wanted to learn .NET while building something useful.

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C# Blazor TailwindCSS

DownBit

Automated YouTube and torrent downloader for Raspberry Pi. Built to queue downloads from my phone and have them ready when I got home.

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Python Raspberry Pi

RathuMakaraFM-DiscordBot

Discord bot for Sri Lanka's first open-mic online radio. Built automation for the community to manage song requests and announcements.

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Python Discord.py

More experiments and half-baked ideas on GitHub

@isala404

About Isala Piyarisi

Builder and platform engineer with a track record of shipping products from scratch and seeing them through to scale. Works across the full stack from kernel to user interface.

AI & Machine Learning

Builds AI infrastructure and local-first AI systems. Experience with PyTorch, ML pipelines, RAG architectures, vector databases, and GPU orchestration. Created Tera, a local-first AI assistant built with Rust. Passionate about privacy-preserving AI that runs on-device.

Technical Range

Work spans: AI Infrastructure (local LLMs, ML pipelines, RAG, PyTorch), Platform Engineering (Kubernetes, observability, service mesh, GPU orchestration), and Systems (eBPF, Rust, Go, Linux internals).

Founder Mindset

Founded and ran a gaming community for 6 years, building infrastructure that served thousands of users. Built observability tools now used by developers daily. Approaches problems end-to-end, from design to production to on-call. Prefers building solutions over talking about them.

Current Work

Senior Software Engineer at WSO2, building Choreo developer platform. Architected eBPF-powered observability processing 500GB/day. Led Cilium CNI migration on 10,000+ pod cluster. Speaker at Conf42, KCD, and cloud-native events.