Rivin Jayasuriya
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Riv the Dev

Software Engineer. I take products from idea to launch in weeks.

Ideas in, products out. Everything between is my job.

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Worked with: Sansa · Mocha (YC S23) · Silicon Valley clients · SriLankan Airlines

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An agentic AI tool that creates and runs Meta ad campaigns end to end for small businesses: pages, campaigns, targets, and autonomous optimization toward the goal.

now · in progress · LLM orchestration

Mocha (YC S23)

Led the engineering team supporting a Y Combinator app-builder; personally diagnosed and resolved 1,000+ AI-generated applications. learned the most.

2025 to 2026 · team lead · AI builder · ycombinator.com

Frenzz

AI image generator that drops your friends into any scene. Took it from idea to the App Store: product, design, and code. personal favorite.

2026 · React Native · Gen AI · frenzz.ai

Maemoe

Voice-first AI meeting notes for iOS: recording, on-device transcription, summaries that actually read well, action items. Idea to launch.

2026 · Swift · LLM summaries · maemoe.ai

Latch

Breastfeeding timer for new mothers, with a paired Apple Watch app, built for a Silicon Valley client. Idea to launch: product, UX, and native code.

2026 · Swift · SwiftUI · watchOS

Sansa

AI-native software engineer at a venture-backed Brooklyn studio. Wrote, debugged, and tested across the stack, and covered product, QA, and UX whenever the job asked. currently here.

since 2025 · New York · sansatech.com

SriLankan Airlines

Three production systems inside the national airline: department analytics, VIP-lounge check-in serving 1,200+ daily transactions, and HR automation.

2024 · .NET · Angular · SQL

An AI trained on my work. Ask it anything. It answers like me, and it doesn't make things up.

What did you last ship?
Frenzz, an AI image generator that drops your friends into any scene. Live on the App Store, and where I really learned gen AI in production.
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⚡ soon: download the 2MB brain, turn off your wifi, keep chatting. Currently optimizing a tiny LLM for exactly this.

The Multi-Tenant Customization Paradox: Formalising the Intrinsic Conflict Between Scalable Shared Codebases and Tenant-Specific Operational Customization in SaaS Architecture (IEEE COMPSAC 2026, Madrid, first author)

An Annotation-Driven Extension Architecture for Deep Customization in Multi-Tenant Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Platforms (IEEE SSE 2026, Sydney, first author)

Won Gold for Most Outstanding Public Presence and Silver for Most Innovative Public Image Project at the 34th Rotaract District Assembly.

Winner of CEO 2.0, a national case-study competition, covered in the Daily Mirror, with the winning moment captured by Loku Business.

Featured by the Rotaract Club of SLIIT as the PR Director behind the club's visual identity.

2nd Runners Up at CodeSprint 7.0, an IEEE inter-university competition with 1,500+ participants from 18 universities.

Finalist with Team Ahrizz at SLIITXtreme 2.0, an IEEE coding competition.

Build the harness right and the model becomes swappable (Medium)

Loop Engineering: stop writing better prompts, start defining done (Medium)

The ten rules I follow before trusting agentic AI (Medium)

My portfolio chatbot has no RAG on purpose (Medium)

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