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\===/  I | U U U U U |     |=======|     | U U U U U | I  \===/
 \=/     |===========| I   | + W + |   I |===========|     \=/
  |  I   |           |     |_______|     |           |   I  |
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Hi, I'm Ajith.

If you're here on purpose, welcome. If you got here by accident, I hope you find something worth staying for.

This is my little corner of the internet. I write about myself, the things I care about, and whatever happens to occupy my mind. Sometimes that's code. Sometimes it's films, music, or poems. Most of the time, it's just me trying to understand the world a little better.

Right now, I work at UST, building things for strollby.com.

If you want to know me a little quicker, these probably say more about me than a long introduction ever could:

• The playlist I use as my Euro Truck Simulator radio.
• A Bukowski poem I keep coming back to.
• Wes Anderson films have a permanent place in my heart.
• Talk to me in English, Malayalam, JavaScript, or Python.

🌙 Late Night Thoughts

• Atomic Commits and Git Bisect: A small change can have an outsized impact. When our TypeScript typecheck slowed from a minute to se... (last updated: 2025-11-11)
• Confidently Wrong: LLMs are the most efficient lossy compression algorithm ever written. When information is missing, t... (last updated: 2026-04-29)
• Mock Client-side & Server-side API Requests Using Next.js and MSW.js: Modern Next.js apps issue API requests from both server and browser, complicating mocking. A practic... (last updated: 2025-07-14)
• The Last State Solution: State management from a behavioral perspective, not just a structural one. Why Redux and Zustand lea... (last updated: 2026-01-10)
• Past midnight: I never learned to drive until I had to. College nights on the back of a Bullet, empty roads, and a ... (last updated: 2026-01-24)

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📄 Publications

EBPF-Based Runtime Detection of Semantic DDoS Attacks in Linux Containers

B. Niranjan; P. M. Ajith Kumar; K. Merin Shaju; K. Dinoy Raj

IEEE Xplore — 2025

Proposes CODAX, an eBPF-based container-aware DDoS detection method that tracks long-running malicious connections via kernel-level probes. Achieves 94.2% faster detection, 0.92 ADR, and 0.02 FPR compared to existing approaches.

🎤 Featured Talks

Engineering around Hallucinations: Agents, Skills, and Secure Supply Chains

FOSS Meetup — Kochi — May 2026

Discusses agents, skills, supply chain security, observability, state machines, and LLM hallucinations. Watch on YouTube

Confidently Wrong: Why LLMs Hallucinate and How to Engineer Around It

GitHub Copilot Dev Days Trivandrum — Trivandrum — Apr 2026

Explores intrinsic vs. extrinsic LLM hallucinations and why proper context setup is critical before coding. Discusses hallucination-resistant practices using state machines for predictable AI behavior. Read the text version →

State Machines: The Last State Management Solution You'll Ever Need

TechMang'26 — Mangalore — Jan 2026

Examines how state machines address core frontend challenges and how AI enhances their solutions. Covers building with XState across frameworks and using Stately.ai for production patterns like auth flows and micro frontend consistency. Read the text version →

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