Gayan Kalinga

Essays

Practical, code-backed, honest about trade-offs.

Writing for two readers: teams shipping in regulated finance, and engineers rebuilding their craft deliberately. Tagged by pillar so you can find your lane.

Delivery & PMArchitectureDeveloper experienceDevSecOpsDevOps automationAI engineeringiOS engineering
publishing queuefirst essays landing soon
pivotFrom VP to Xcode: why I went back to coding at 40queued
iosBuilding BudgetBook: modelling loans, accounts & transactions with SwiftDataqueued
iosWriting a loan EMI amortisation engine in Swiftqueued
iosSwiftData vs Core Data: what I learned building a finance appqueued
learning100 Days of SwiftUI as an experienced engineer — what was easy, what wasn’tqueued
fintechWhat 16 years in FinTech taught me about building good financial UXqueued