Software engineer @ in2event · I direct AI agents · Netherlands
I'm Janitha. For five years I built React and TypeScript products by hand. Now I brief AI agents, split the work between them, read every diff, and catch the bugs before they reach production.
How I work now
Every AI session starts from zero. It doesn't know the codebase, the history, or what we decided yesterday. I think of it like helping a newborn stand up and walk: I give it context, a direction and guardrails, and I stay close for the first steps.
I write down what we're building, the constraints, what "done" means and what must not change.
I break the work into pieces small enough to review, and ask what could go wrong before anything is written.
I run several agents side by side, each with one task and clear boundaries, so their changes don't collide.
I read every diff. Years of writing React and TypeScript by hand is how I notice the bug that still passes the tests.
I run the release: checks, preview, deploy, and watching it afterwards. If it breaks, it's mine to fix.
Day Job & Shipped Work
My day job, and a product I built from scratch.
in2event · crew pass
Software Engineer
An event management platform that powers the operations behind major festivals and venues: artist management, backstage logistics, staff scheduling, accreditation, access control and real-time event operations. It's a complex ecosystem, and I work across different parts of it.
Valve Vacation · built from scratch
Website and app
I built the Valve Vacation website and app completely from scratch, end to end. I handled everything, from the architecture and the development to the final product.
Path
Sri Lanka, North Macedonia, the Netherlands. Then the job itself changed.
Origin · Colombo, Sri Lanka
I grew up here and wrote my first lines of code.
First move · Skopje, North Macedonia
My first move abroad. Working somewhere unfamiliar, with a team I didn't know, is where I grew most as an engineer.
Today · Netherlands
I work across multiple products at in2event, an event management platform that powers the operations behind major festivals and venues. I also built the Valve Vacation website and app from scratch, end to end.
Now · Same job, different work
Most of the code I ship is now written by AI agents. I plan the work, brief them, review every diff and own the release.
I was building complete products from scratch long before AI became part of the development workflow.
Back then everything took a lot more manual engineering, problem-solving and figuring things out yourself. Now imagine what someone with that foundation can build with the tools we have today. The possibilities have become a lot more interesting.
Side Projects
The live ones first — then the experiments, where I try ideas and new tech.
The site you're on. I planned it, reviewed every change and shipped it; AI agents wrote most of the code. A one-page portfolio plus a small arcade, in a Next.js 16 monorepo.
Modern fitness coaching platform with PDF generation, WhatsApp integration, Calendly booking, and multi-channel contact flows. Built with Next.js 15 and Resend email API.
Experiments
AI-powered Dutch language learning platform with streaming conversations, dual-mode translation pipeline, spee…
High-performance React component library for resource-based scheduling. Features drag-and-drop, virtual scroll…
Peer-to-peer delivery marketplace connecting travelers with senders. Multi-platform ecosystem with web, mobile…
Email digest automation tool for summarizing and organizing inbox content into actionable summaries.
Toolbox
Directing agents comes first now. The rest is what I built by hand for years, and what lets me judge their work.
Arcade
A small beat-the-clock vault game with a leaderboard. Stop the needle on the bars before the time runs out.
Contact
Open to interesting projects and conversations. The fastest way to reach me is email.
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