Sandev Abeykoon – Software Engineer
Colombo, Sri Lanka | UTC+5:30
Hello! Welcome to my field journal. The short version of what I do is below. The long version is on /resume, and the story behind it on /whoami.
I'm a software engineer at Bespoke Motor Group, a New York dealership group operating Bentley, Rolls-Royce, Lamborghini and Porsche franchises, where I led the system design of an in-house market intelligence platform. I'm also part of the team building an AI-powered lead-capture SaaS at BudgetBuy AI in Melbourne. Before that I spent four years at Maya Hive in Colombo, moving from web development intern to DevOps engineer, where I took over the Linux infrastructure, deployment pipelines and monitoring behind the platforms the team shipped.
I have 6 years of experience across DevOps, backend, and web development, and I'm an AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate. I currently build with React, Next.js, NestJS, TypeScript, Node.js, Go and PostgreSQL, and write first-hand field logs about the systems I ship. I'm based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and work remotely across time zones.
Featured logs
Experience
- Bespoke Motor Group
Software Engineer
Apr 2026 – Present | Full-time | New York, United States | Remote
Leads platform engineering for a luxury dealership group: a market intelligence ETL platform, a local-first sales PWA, and the brand marketing sites.
Related: Local First PWA with IndexedDB & SSE, Distributed Systems
- BudgetBuy AI
Software Engineer
Jun 2026 – Present | Part-time | Melbourne, Australia | Remote
Builds a multi-tenant AI lead-capture SaaS: RAG retrieval, workflow agents, and a hardened API gateway.
Related: Microservice Auth with JWTs
- Maya Hive
DevOps Engineer
Jan 2022 – Mar 2026 | Full-time | Colombo, Sri Lanka
Automated secure Linux server provisioning with Ansible and Docker, with delivery running through GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines.
Related: Automating VPS with Ansible, The Hive Observatory, Building an On-Premise Server
Web Development Intern
Sep 2021 – Dec 2021 | Internship | Colombo, Sri Lanka
Delivered CMS-driven client websites during a four-month internship.
Related: WordPress Survival Guide
Credentials
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate | Amazon Web Services
- BA (Hons) Visual Communication Design | Limkokwing University of Creative Technology
Current focus
System design, and how AI agentic systems can take real work off people's plates. On the tooling side that means TanStack Start with React on the frontend, and Go with domain-driven architecture on the backend. The full detail behind every role above sits on the resume, and the longer story on /whoami.
Skills
DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Backend Development, Web Development, System Design, Linux, AWS, Go, TypeScript, React, Next.js, NestJS, Laravel, Node.js, Ansible, and the full breakdown on the resume.