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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Context Compaction Across Agent Harnesses: Why Summarization Is the Wrong Model

Oct 25, 2026

When agents forget after compaction, blame lost state over token ratios. How eight production harnesses manage context and keep long runs alive.

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Beyond the Ephemeral Loop: The Architecture of Durable AI Agents Oct 11
Codemode vs. MCP: Code as Orchestration Replaces Direct Tool Calling Oct 2
How Coding Agents Edit Files: Diffs, Snapshots, and Fast Apply Sep 20

Today I Learned

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Disable Built-In AI Features in VS Code Oct 15
cmp: Fast Byte-by-Byte File Comparison for Shell Scripts Oct 4
Hyphens, En Dashes, and the Double-Hyphen Prose Dash Sep 26

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