Where I've Worked
Software engineering experience across enterprise technology, real-time infrastructure, cloud platforms, and AI systems.
Sysco LABS Sri Lanka
Software Engineer at Sysco LABS Sri Lanka building enterprise technology solutions and cloud infrastructure.
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
From the Blog
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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