Skills
A broad but production-tested skill matrix for building, deploying, debugging, and explaining enterprise AI and software platforms.
Competencies
The categories map directly to what forward deployed engineering demands: customer discovery, systems design, implementation, deployment, and incident response.
Frontend
Modern UI work across dashboards, data-heavy workflows, architecture explorers, and AI-assisted interfaces.
Signals
“Chanaka is the engineer you put in front of a customer. He translates vague business pain into working systems faster than anyone I have worked with, and the systems keep working.”
“The Microsoft Graph integration he architected went from design doc to production in six weeks and has processed millions of emails since with barely an incident.”
“He brought AI into our product the right way — evals first, guardrails everywhere, and honest about what the models can and cannot do.”