About Me

I'm Thisaru — a technologist, guitarist, and someone who finds beauty in how things connect. Whether it's a line of code, the color of a butterfly's wing, or a pattern in human behavior, I care about how systems work — and who they work for.

I work on the Ballerina programming language at WSO2. My focus spans building libraries, refining dev tooling, mentoring, and sometimes challenging assumptions we hold about how things "should" work.

Language fascinates me. It doesn't just reflect our thoughts — it shapes them. It creates the boxes we think in, and sometimes, if we're careful, the doors to get out. That's why I care about how we name, frame, and describe the world around us.

I don't believe in meritocracy — at least not the way it's sold. A tea-plucking woman in Sri Lanka, whose labor fuels a huge part of our foreign income, often earns less than Rs. 1000 a day. Meanwhile, billionaires are celebrated for "disrupting" systems they never had to fight to enter. The game is rigged — and it's time we stopped pretending otherwise.

I care about reptiles, riff pedals, language, photography, philosophy, and good questions. I believe tech should serve people — not shareholders. And I believe that beauty — in code, in nature, in justice — is always worth defending.

"If naming something brings it into view, then maybe a better name is where change begins."