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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

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

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.

TypeScript WebGPU DinoV2

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

WebAgents

Platform for spinning up browser-based agents to handle day-to-day tasks, configured directly through the browser.

TypeScript AI Agents Browser Automation

NanoVM

Spin up a cloud computer in seconds to host small web apps or run one-off browser tasks.

TypeScript Cloud Infrastructure

AdaProof

Scans websites for ADA accessibility compliance issues.

TypeScript Accessibility

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.