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S·SSithum Sithara

Updated 31 Oct 2026

What's happening now

A living breakdown of what I'm doing right now — building, leading, learning and travelling. Pulled from the same JSON as the rest of this site, so it's always current. Inspired by the nownownow.com movement.

01Right now

What I'm focused on

  1. In progressFinal-year projectQuintrix ITSO — post-InOrbit refinements2nd place at InOrbit. Now tightening the degradation review queue and writing up the FR-by-FR evaluation for final submission.
  2. FixingEngineeringNora Labs agent platformRebuilding the Cloud Run deployment after it went offline — the full story is in the Stories series.
  3. OngoingLeadershipSocial Media Head, InFocus MediaRunning social strategy for Rajarata University's official media unit across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.
  4. OngoingTravel & guidingGuiding travellers around Sri LankaHill country, heritage towns and the south coast — and the tourism tech course that grew out of it.
  5. PublishedWritingThe Distributed Life28 essays on building a life across solitude, frontier tech, logistics, social fluidity and Sri Lanka's future.
  6. OngoingTeachingSix free courses on this siteTourism Tech, W3DevOps, SRE Labs, Networking, AI Network Labs and ML Playbook — 141 lessons, growing.

02Breakdown

Building, leading, learning, travelling

Building

  • —Quintrix ITSO final submission
  • —Nora Labs agent platform redeploy
  • —This portfolio, as a living system

Leading

  • —Social Media Head at InFocus Media
  • —AIESEC in Rajarata University
  • —Final-year team at Quintrix

Learning

  • —Deep learning and model deployment (ML Playbook)
  • —SRE: error budgets and observability
  • —Network design for real campus builds — with AI Network Labs around cisco-pt-mcp

Travelling

  • —Guiding guests around the hill country and south coast
  • —Retreats at Mandaram Nuwara and Mahamevnawa between busy stretches

03Toolkit

What I'm using

Currently shipping with

PythonFastAPINext.jsGoogle ADKPyTorchDockerGoogle Cloud RunCoolify

Currently reading / researching

  • EC06 functional requirements writing
  • Constitutional AI & mechanistic interpretability notes
  • Sri Lanka tourism and marine-economy research

This page changes as my work changes — check back, or see the full timeline of achievements and the Self Guide for how I'm learning in public.