About

I’m Maleesha, a computer engineer who likes to understand software all the way down. I build systems and the infrastructure they run on, and I enjoy following the whole path a request takes: through the API, into the database, across the network and onto the machine underneath. What draws me in is the reasoning behind a system as much as the system itself: why a boundary sits where it does, what a design quietly trades away, and how it behaves when load, latency or bad data push against it. That curiosity keeps pulling me toward performance, networking and security, and more recently toward the infrastructure that serves large AI models. I treat engineering as a craft worth doing carefully, with clear interfaces, honest measurements and documentation someone else can actually follow.

This site is where I think out loud about that work: how things are built, why they hold up, and what I learn when they don’t.

When I’m not building, I’m usually reading about Linux internals, compilers or networking, or taking something apart to see how it works.