Skip to content
Kondasamy Jayaraman

Samy

Kondasamy Jayaraman

Engineering Leader · Agentic AI & Data Platforms

I'm an engineering leader with over a decade of experience building data platforms and AI systems at scale. Currently architecting agentic AI for operational intelligence at Mastercard.

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

MicroVMs: The Data Isolation Layer AI Agents Have Been Missing

When your AI agent processes Patient A's records, can you guarantee it physically cannot touch Patient B's data? Containers can't. MicroVMs can.

Today I Learned

View all →

Publishing Activity

Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May
Mon Wed Fri
TIL: Time Travel Queries in Apache Iceberg, TIL: Rust Ownership Rules Simplified
Blog: I Built a $500 SaaS Boilerplate in 5 Days (And Made It Free)
TIL: How to Set Up Multiple SSH Keys for GitHub on MacBook
Blog: Debugging a 500 Internal Server Error in Kubernetes: A Detective StoryTIL: Using pnpm outdated to Check and Upgrade Dependencies
Blog: Beyond the Sci-Fi Brain: 6 Design Patterns That Power Real AI AgentsBlog: Claude Code: Things That Made Me Switch from CursorTIL: Git Worktree: The Secret Weapon for AI Coding Agents, TIL: Making Git Worktrees Painless for Parallel Agents
Blog: How Claude Code's Interview Mode Changed My Workflow
Blog: The Fish Shell Terminal Stack: From Slow to Fast
Blog: Stop Adding Redis: Fix Your Missing Postgres Indices First
TIL: Custom Status Line for Claude Code
Blog: 5 Underhyped Claude Code Tips That Actually Ship CodeBlog: The Rust Rewrite: Modern Developer Tools I Lean On in 2026
Blog: UV: The Python Tooling That Makes pip Feel AncientBlog: RAG for Dummies: What Nobody Tells You About Building Search That Works
TIL: Intercom S3 Backups: Dealing with Empty Files
Blog: What Is an AI Agent? The Definition War That Reveals Our Industry's Confusion
Blog: Workflow vs Agent vs Multi-Agent: The Architecture Decision Nobody Explains
Blog: How Claude Code Actually Works Under the Hood
Blog: Dense vs Sparse Retrieval: Why Your Vector-Only Search Is Missing 25% of ResultsBlog: grep Is Not BM25: The Difference Between Pattern Matching and Retrieval
TIL: Claude Code's Edit Tool Has a Tabs Problem
TIL: sips: macOS Hidden Image Swiss KnifeBlog: Pros Don't Vibe, They Control: What Developers Reveal About AI Agent Use
Blog: GSD vs SpecKit, BMAD, and Compound Engineering: Picking the Right AI Coding Framework
Blog: Why Compound Engineering Is My New Default for Claude Code
Blog: Escaping AI Slop: Comparing Design Copilots From Skills to Figma PluginsBlog: Anam vs Tavus vs Hedra vs Simli: Choosing an AI Avatar Platform That Actually Looks Human, TIL: Install Docker on Ubuntu (Hetzner Server Setup)
Blog: 15 Patterns That Keep Production AI Agents From Burning Down Prod
Blog: Claude Code's Source Got Leaked. Here's What Agent Builders Should Actually Learn From It.TIL: Portless: Named URLs for Local Dev
TIL: AlphaXiv: Research Papers Without the Token WasteTIL: Mole: One Command, 48GB Freed
Blog: DESIGN.md: The Missing File Between AI Agents and Consistent UI
TIL: macOS Preview Does PDF Editing
Blog: Harness Engineering: Stop Blaming the Model, Fix the Environment
Blog: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML as AI OutputBlog: Claude Code in Large Codebases: What Anthropic Got Right and What They Left Out
Blog: Stop Adding AI to Your Product. Start Deleting Everything It Replaces.
TIL: Understand Anything: Codebase Knowledge Graphs
Blog: MicroVMs: The Data Isolation Layer AI Agents Have Been Missing
GitHub Contribution Graph