Personal journal  ·  Est. Colombo

I build to understand, and share what I learn.

Engineer by training, maker by instinct. This is where I document the experiments, homemade instruments and everyday problems I take apart in my spare time — no shortcuts, just curiosity followed all the way down.

Dream · Think · Execute Recent work
Additive Manufacturing ◆ Thermal Systems ◆ Essential Oil Extraction ◆ Health & Nutrition ◆ Agriculture ◆ Culinary Engineering ◆ Additive Manufacturing ◆ Thermal Systems ◆ Essential Oil Extraction ◆ Health & Nutrition ◆ Agriculture ◆ Culinary Engineering ◆

Selected experiments

2025 — Ongoing
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Working principle

Interdisciplinary knowledge beats single-domain expertise. Effort plus innovative thinking produces results — even when the path isn't obvious yet.

Tharaka's home laboratory bench The home lab · Colombo

Ten years of building things that didn't exist yet.

I'm a product innovator working across engineering, supply chain and everything in between. Outside work, I run scientific experiments and engineer solutions to ordinary problems — all self-funded, all documented here.

Wearable apparel innovation, mechanical engineering, and a genuine obsession with food. This journal exists to keep me honest and to nudge others toward exploring the things they're curious about.

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