2009 to 2021
Primary & Secondary Education
Royal Institute
Twelve years from primary through to high school, finishing with Cambridge Ordinary Levels and Advanced Levels.
- Cambridge Ordinary Level
- Cambridge Advanced Level, Mathematics
Hello šš½, Iām|
Small-town boy from the island š±š° with big dreams, chasing purpose through the beautiful mess of trying, failing, and trying again.
Trying to make something meaningful out of this brief, perfectly imperfect window we get to call life, before it all fades back into oblivion. When Iām not building, Iām lifting or playing some sport.
Tech Stack
Most of my work revolves around TypeScript and JavaScript technologies, with a growing focus on Applied AI through RAG, vector databases, and LLM fine-tuning. Iām particularly interested in distributed systems and system architecture, exploring how products can be designed not just to work, but to scale reliably as they grow.
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- React
- Next.js
- Node.js
- NestJS
- Express
- GraphQL
- Tailwind CSS
- Python
- FastAPI
- PyTorch
- LangChain
- OpenAI
- Hugging Face
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Kafka
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Linux
- Git
Education & Experience
Where I studied, and the teams I have built software with since.
2021 to 2026
BSc (Hons) Software Engineering
Informatics Institute of Technology
Affiliated with the University of Westminster
Graduated with First Class Honours, reading software engineering alongside working full time.
- First Class Honours
Aug 2022 to Feb 2023
Software Engineer, Internship
Continental Insurance Lanka Limited
Six months as a PHP developer, building and maintaining the in-house applications the business runs on.
Key project
Vehicle Claims File Management System
- Developed and maintained a centralised file management, tracking and storage system for the Vehicle Claims department.
- Built the backend features and database functionality in PHP and CodeIgniter.
- Improved document organisation, retrieval times and the day-to-day workflow of the department.
- PHP
- CodeIgniter
- MySQL
Feb 2023 to Apr 2026
Associate Software Engineer
Three years of full-stack product work, designing scalable REST APIs, implementing the business logic behind them, and building the responsive interfaces on top.
Key project
FieldSmart, Computerised Maintenance Management System
- Developed and maintained a CMMS platform covering assets, inventory, contracts, technicians and work orders.
- Built the frontend in Next.js and the backend services in NestJS, over a PostgreSQL schema of my own design.
- Contributed to a product in active use by leading organisations, including NestlƩ Sri Lanka.
Key project
BASL, Learning & Member Management System
- Built a member and learning management system for the Bar Association of Sri Lanka.
- Next.js on the front, Laravel on the back, over MariaDB with a Moodle LMS integration.
- Next.js
- NestJS
- Express.js
- Laravel
- PHP
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
Jul 2025 to Oct 2025
AI Engineer, Apprenticeship
United Kingdom
An intensive three-month apprenticeship under industry professionals, on designing, deploying and scaling production-ready AI systems.
Key project
PII Redaction Chatbot
- Designed and deployed a chatbot that identifies and redacts personally identifiable information from user-provided content.
- Served the Qwen3 4B model with vLLM, tuned for inference throughput.
- Deployed and operated the system on AWS EC2, with the API integrations and release workflow around it.
- Python
- FastAPI
- vLLM
- Qwen3
- AWS EC2
- Docker
Jun 2026 to Present
Software Engineer, Contract
A full-stack contract role delivering features across the frontend and backend of two live products.
Key project
SportsDuel & SquadDuel
- Delivered end-to-end features across both products, from the interface down to the database.
- Built and maintained the web applications, APIs and data models behind them.
- Profiled and resolved performance issues, and worked with cross-functional teams to ship reliable releases.
- Next.js
- NestJS
- Express.js
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
Sep 2026 to Present
Visiting Assistant Lecturer, Part Time
Informatics Institute of Technology
Guiding final year students through their research projects with feedback and suggestions, as a recently graduated mentor.
Projects
Applications I have built.
Live
ArchiveFLEX-Med
The implementation behind FLEX-Med, a logit-based federated learning architecture for leukemia diagnosis under data and model heterogeneity. Clients train their own EfficientNet models on private, non-IID blood smear data and share only logits, never weights or images. A dashboard configures each simulation and reports per-client accuracy, class gaps, data skew and training convergence.
- #Federated Learning
- #Flower Framework
- #EfficientNet
- #Convolutional Neural Network
- #Next.js
- #FastAPI
Archive
Archive
Scribbles
Papers, write-ups, and talks, anything published or delivered under my name.
LivePaperFLEX-Med: A Privacy-Preserving Heterogeneous Federated Learning Framework for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) Diagnosis
Three institutions running three different CNNs, ResNet50, MobileNetV2 and DenseNet121, trained together on blood smear images without any of them handing over a patient record, reaching 85.4% average accuracy over ten rounds.
- #Federated Learning
- #Privacy
- #Medical Imaging
LivePaperLogit-based Federated Learning Architecture for Leukemia Diagnosis under Data and Model Heterogeneity
Letting hospitals whose models are different sizes train together anyway, by exchanging output logits on a shared anchor set instead of the weights that FedAvg would need them to have in common.
- #Federated Learning
- #Knowledge Distillation
- #Deep Learning
Live- ArchiveSpeech
The Philosophy of a Cup of Tea
A body-language project built around a single question: what a cup of tea has to teach about patience, presence, and accepting an outcome you did not pick.
- #Toastmasters
- #Body language
- ArchiveSpeech
AI vs Anxiety
On preparing this speech with an AI companion, the 10,000 unfunny puns, the advice to attempt yoga on stage, and what actually helped in the end.
- #Toastmasters
- #Humour
- ArchiveSpeech
From Stage Fright to Stage Might
A Halloween meeting where the costumes were the least frightening thing in the room, and what it took to work out that bravery is not the absence of fear.
- #Toastmasters
- #Public speaking
Certifications
Degrees, courses, and credentials I have completed.
DegreeBEng (Hons) Software Engineering, First Class Honours
University of Westminster Ā· Jun 2026
Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering, awarded with First Class Honours by the University of Westminster. Studied at the Informatics Institute of Technology, Sri Lanka.
PresentationCertificate of Presentation, ICIRCA 2026
RVS College of Engineering and Technology Ā· Jun 2026
Presented the paper "Logit-based Federated Learning Architecture for Leukemia Diagnosis under Data and Model Heterogeneity" at the 7th International Conference on Inventive Research in Computing Applications (ICIRCA 2026), held 3 to 5 June 2026 in Coimbatore, India.
Extras
Talks, programs and roles beyond the code.
Cutting Edge 2026
Presented my final year research project at the 2026 Cutting Edge program.
Cutting Edge 2026
With the team at the 2026 Cutting Edge program.
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