Samy

Kondasamy Jayaraman

Engineering Leader · Data Platforms & Agentic AI

I build the teams and platforms behind reliable data products and AI systems. Over 14 years, I've led engineering across data platforms, fraud systems, and agentic AI. Today, I architect operational intelligence at Mastercard.

Views expressed here are my own and do not represent my employer.

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Agent Architecture Is Distributed Systems: Where the Analogy Holds and Where It Breaks

Nov 2, 2026

Most 2026 agent patterns are older distributed systems or compiler ideas applied to probabilistic workers. An examination of what transfers and what fails.

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Context Compaction Across Agent Harnesses: Why Summarization Is the Wrong ModelOct 25
Beyond the Ephemeral Loop: The Architecture of Durable AI AgentsOct 11
Codemode vs. MCP: Code as Orchestration Replaces Direct Tool CallingOct 2

Today I Learned

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Disable Claude Code's Co-Author Git AttributionOct 27
Disable Built-In AI Features in VS CodeOct 15
cmp: Fast Byte-by-Byte File Comparison for Shell ScriptsOct 4

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