<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Case Studies on Maduka Dilshan — Senior Backend Engineer</title><link>https://madukadilshan.com/case-studies/</link><description>Recent content in Case Studies on Maduka Dilshan — Senior Backend Engineer</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://madukadilshan.com/case-studies/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Beating the Pirates: A Custom Content-Protection Protocol for a Closed Video Platform</title><link>https://madukadilshan.com/case-studies/secure-lms/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://madukadilshan.com/case-studies/secure-lms/</guid><description>&lt;div class="nda-note">Implementation details are deliberately omitted to protect IP and avoid aiding reverse engineering. Architecture-level tradeoffs available under NDA.&lt;/div>
&lt;h2 id="the-setup">The setup&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Late 2020. Covid, curfew, classrooms shut. Sri Lanka&amp;rsquo;s massive private-tuition industry — the machine that preps students for the A/L exams — had nowhere to go. An institute came to us with an order: &lt;strong>build them a Learning Management System, fast.&lt;/strong>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>We shipped the first release in weeks: courses, lessons, attendance, payments, and video streaming. For video we made the pragmatic call — &lt;strong>embed a third-party host&lt;/strong>. It offloaded our bandwidth, saved months of work, and got students learning again.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Event Sourcing at Scale</title><link>https://madukadilshan.com/case-studies/buzzmi/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://madukadilshan.com/case-studies/buzzmi/</guid><description>&lt;p>Coming soon.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>A Conversational AI That Books Jobs</title><link>https://madukadilshan.com/case-studies/routeflow/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://madukadilshan.com/case-studies/routeflow/</guid><description>&lt;p>Coming soon.&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>