About the author

Hi, I'm Wickramaranga.

I started programming as a hobby, by accident when I was around 14y or so. I had fun programming with my friends, back in the school days. In the beginning, I coded batch scripts, desktop applications with VB6/VB.NET, with no internet or even documentation most of the time. We were good at problem solving. However, I couldn't pursue this hobby for long, because of school, exams, etc.

Anyway, before attending college, I learned a bit of Java, and C# too. From college I learned Software Engineering, Networking, DBMS, Algorithms, AI/ML, etc. during my Computer Science and Engineering degree. At the same time I taught myself another bunch of programming languages, some mainstream frameworks and tools like php/symfony, MySQL, JavaScript, Python, Git, Blockchain concept, to name a few.

I like everything but get bored pretty easily. I have loved every subject in some stage of my life, but the ones I still love are... I don't know. Probably linguistics? And that includes programming languages, music, and slightly mathematics (I'm terrible at it); I believe everything is a language at some level. I like cryptography too. My latest interest, however, is philosophy.

Currently, I'm working as a Software Engineer (Associate Tech Lead, to be exact), living in a bankrupt 3rd world country in Asia. My usual tech stack is TypeScript React, NodeJS, and MongoDB, although I'm fine with anything, as long as it is not outdated, or overhyped. I like functional (+reactive) programming, my favorite language is Rust and I'm still learning it.