Niko Vijayaratnam
is a
product builder and product director
based in the UK. He has built digital products at
BBC
, Financial Times, and Booking.com, and is the founder of
product.builders
— a community and toolkit for product builders in the AI era.
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Niko Vijayaratnam
Photo taken on
9 May 2026
at
Bala Lake
with a
iPhone Air
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Who I am
Based in the North West of the UK.
My work days are spent leading Ground Transport Platform Product at
Booking.com
.
Partner to S · Dad to V & V
Striving to be healthier and fitter
Working to get more done with my time - mainly through AI automations
Constantly learning
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My Coding Pipeline in 2026
I'm a product manager by trade. But I'm shipping production code, maintaining multiple live products, and running active Git repos across half a dozen projects. This is how that works.
Context is King: How I Use AI, Obsidian, and a Personal Task Board to Build Like a One-Person Studio
The effort in software development is moving upstream. What is scarce now is specification — the quality of the brief.
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