Welcome to My Blog

Lasantha Kularatne posts personal welcome

Welcome to my corner of the internet! After 22+ years in software engineering, I've finally decided to create a dedicated space to share my thoughts on technology, leadership, and the lessons learned along the way.

What to Expect

This blog will cover topics I'm passionate about and have hands-on experience with:

AI/ML & Developer Productivity

Having led AI adoption initiatives across global engineering teams, I'll share insights on:

  • Practical applications of LLMs and AI tools in software development
  • Prompt engineering techniques that actually work
  • Building developer tools with Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • Lessons from driving cultural shifts toward AI-powered engineering

Site Reliability Engineering

With years of experience in SRE, expect posts on:

  • Achieving high availability in distributed systems
  • Incident management and blameless postmortems
  • SLOs, error budgets, and reliability practices
  • Operational readiness and capacity planning

Software Architecture & Leadership

From my journey through individual contributor to Principal Engineer roles:

  • Designing scalable microservices architectures
  • Technical leadership and mentorship
  • Building high-performing engineering teams
  • Career growth in software engineering

Photography

When I'm not coding, I explore the world through my camera lens. Occasional posts about photography adventures and perspectives.

Why Start a Blog?

I've always believed in sharing knowledge. Some of my biggest breakthroughs came from reading others' experiences. I've previously written on Medium about topics like application couplings, data science, and error budget policies - this blog extends that journey.

Writing also forces clarity of thought. When you explain something for others, you discover gaps in your own understanding.

Stay Connected

Feel free to reach out if you have questions, want to collaborate, or just want to say hi. You can find me on LinkedIn and GitHub.

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy coding!