WhereI'veWorked
3+ years owning production systems end-to-end across React, Node.js, and PostgreSQL.
Adalex Technologies
Full-Stack Software Engineer working across cloud infrastructure, AI integrations, and SaaS product development.
Enlear
Contract Software Engineer focused on authentication architecture, real-time data pipelines, and supply chain tooling.
Rootcode
Intern Software Engineer contributing to real-time infrastructure, AI systems, and government smart city platforms across both frontend and backend.
Winners & Awards
Competitions, hackathons and awards recognizing impactful work
NBQSA 2025
- Member of Rootcode's AI Team that built a real-time SSE-based alert system for the Porto Government
- Won 1st Place (Gold) at the National Best Quality Software Awards (NBQSA) 2025 for the 'Clamigo' project
SDG Youth Challenge – ICBI 2025
- National Champions (1st Place) at the SDG Youth Challenge – ICBI 2025
- Developed AspiraGuard: A wearable solution for early detection of silent aspiration in adult stroke patients, integrated with an AI-powered mobile app
Make-a-Thon 2025
- Top 7 Finalist & Top 3 'Most Liked Project'
- Selected as a finalist in a 3-day consecutive Make-a-Thon and competition focused on developing assistive medical devices
Openhack 2.0
- Team Nebula from the University of Moratuwa emerged as 3rd place in a 12-hour hackathon
- Competed in a challenging hackathon organized by IIT on premises
RealHack 4.0
- Managed to be in the top 15 at the RealHack hackathon
- Competed against teams from multiple universities
Hacktoberfest 2022 & 2023
- Swag Winner in Hacktoberfest 2023, a month-long celebration by DigitalOcean in partnership with GitHub
- Contributed to open source projects and received limited-edition Swags
Community & Leadership
Speaking engagements, community building, and technical leadership across the cloud-native ecosystem
Speaker – AWS Student Community Day 2026
Delivered a technical talk at AWS Student Community Day Sri Lanka 2026, sharing insights on serverless architecture and cloud-native development with the next generation of builders.
- Presented on serverless architecture patterns and best practices to a student developer audience
- Shared real-world production experience with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and event-driven systems
Speaker – CERT Directory Virtual Meetup
Shared the stage with fellow speakers at the CERT Directory virtual meetup, discussing cloud journeys and insights. The session wrapped up with an interactive quiz and Q&A.
- Shared cloud computing journey and insights alongside fellow speakers Adithya and Thisara
- Participated in an interactive quiz and Q&A session with the student community
AWS Community Builder (Serverless)
Recognised for technical contributions to the global AWS community. Selected as an AWS Community Builder in the Serverless category.
- Selected as AWS Community Builder in March 2025 for contributions to the serverless community
- Published technical articles on AWS serverless architecture, PostgreSQL replication, and GCP Pub/Sub
Co-organiser – AWS Community Day Sri Lanka 2025
Co-organised AWS Community Day Sri Lanka 2025 as Organizer, Volunteer, and Speaker — a flagship community event with 500+ attendees.
- Served as Organizer/Volunteer for the event with 500+ attendees
- Won the AWS Quiz competition, receiving AWS Swags and Credits
Speaker – Rootcode Cloud Community Meetup
Delivered a conference talk on building a serverless content moderation system with AWS at the Rootcode Cloud Community meetup.
- Presented end-to-end implementation of a serverless content moderation system using AWS Rekognition, Lambda, S3, API Gateway, SQS, and CloudWatch
- Live demo covering architectural design to deployment
Speaker – AWS Cloud Club Sri Lanka
Delivered a guest lecture on serverless cloud development using the Serverless Framework, covering Node.js API deployment and DynamoDB integration.
- Full guest lecture covering serverless basics, deploying Node.js Express API, and building applications with DynamoDB
- Covered auto-scaling, pay-for-idle benefits, and serverless architecture patterns
FromtheBlog
Thoughts on cloud-native development, architecture, and engineering practices — articles and videos
Scaling Like Amazon & Uber: PostgreSQL Replication Explained with a Hands-On Demo
Learn how large-scale systems like Amazon and Uber handle thousands of writes and millions of reads using PostgreSQL replication. Includes a complete Docker Compose setup with 1 primary and 2 replicas.
Message Distribution Architecture with GCP Pub/Sub: A Hands-On Node.js Demo
Build scalable message distribution systems using Google Cloud Pub/Sub. Complete guide with Node.js examples for implementing event-driven architectures.
Building a Serverless Content Moderation System with AWS
Complete workshop on building a serverless content moderation system using AWS Rekognition, Lambda, S3, API Gateway, SQS, and CloudWatch. Presented at Rootcode Cloud Community meetup.
AWS VPC Setup Tutorial in Sinhala - Cloud Architecture Basics
Step-by-step guide in Sinhala on building secure and scalable server architecture on AWS Cloud. Learn VPC setup, public/private subnets, Internet Gateway, NAT Gateway, route tables, and security best practices.
Certifications
Industry-recognized certifications validating cloud architecture and engineering expertise
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations Associate
Oracle
Designing Event-Driven Architecture
Amazon Web Services
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Google Cloud / Coursera
Supervised Machine Learning: Algorithms
DeepLearning.AI / Coursera
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