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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Beyond the Ephemeral Loop: The Architecture of Durable AI Agents

Oct 11, 2026

AI agents built on while loops lose state when processes crash. Durable agents require an embedded database and an operating system task scheduler.

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Codemode vs. MCP: Code as Orchestration Replaces Direct Tool Calling Oct 2
How Coding Agents Edit Files: Diffs, Snapshots, and Fast Apply Sep 20
Oh My Pi (omp): The Maximalist Harness That Puts the IDE in the Loop Sep 13

Today I Learned

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cmp: Fast Byte-by-Byte File Comparison for Shell Scripts Oct 4
Hyphens, En Dashes, and the Double-Hyphen Prose Dash Sep 26
pdftoppm: Convert PDF Pages to Images in One Command Sep 8

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