I’m a customer-embedded engineering leader with about 11 years of experience building, deploying, and scaling software products across APAC—often working side-by-side with customers from discovery and integration through go-live and adoption. I’ve led teams of 20+ from prototype to production for 8+ years, with a strong focus on technical discovery, proof-of-concept scoping, requirements gathering, and delivery through Agile execution. I also bring deep hands-on expertise across applied AI and modern cloud/full-stack engineering. From agentic AI recommendation engines and RAG-based systems deployed into production to architecting scalable infrastructures on AWS/GCP with CI/CD, Docker, databases, caching, and resilient microservices, I aim to connect product capability directly to business outcomes—whether that’s reducing costs, improving uptime, speeding releases, or enabling smooth customer adoption.…

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I’m a customer-embedded engineering leader with about 11 years of experience building, deploying, and scaling software products across APAC—often working side-by-side with customers from discovery and integration through go-live and adoption. I’ve led teams of 20+ from prototype to production for 8+ years, with a strong focus on technical discovery, proof-of-concept scoping, requirements gathering, and delivery through Agile execution. I also bring deep hands-on expertise across applied AI and modern cloud/full-stack engineering. From agentic AI recommendation engines and RAG-based systems deployed into production to architecting scalable infrastructures on AWS/GCP with CI/CD, Docker, databases, caching, and resilient microservices, I aim to connect product capability directly to business outcomes—whether that’s reducing costs, improving uptime, speeding releases, or enabling smooth customer adoption.…

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I’m a customer-embedded engineering leader with about 11 years of experience building, deploying, and scaling software products across APAC—often working side-by-side with customers from discovery and integration through go-live and adoption. I’ve led teams of 20+ from prototype to production for 8+ years, with a strong focus on technical discovery, proof-of-concept scoping, requirements gathering, and delivery through Agile execution.

I also bring deep hands-on expertise across applied AI and modern cloud/full-stack engineering. From agentic AI recommendation engines and RAG-based systems deployed into production to architecting scalable infrastructures on AWS/GCP with CI/CD, Docker, databases, caching, and resilient microservices, I aim to connect product capability directly to business outcomes—whether that’s reducing costs, improving uptime, speeding releases, or enabling smooth customer adoption.

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Language

Sinhala, Sinhalese
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Work Experience

Co-Founder & CTO at Expando AI
September 1, 2023 - April 30, 2026
Founded and scaled an AI-powered channel-partnership B2B SaaS platform from concept to revenue; defined and owned the technical roadmap aligned to funding and go-to-market goals; architected and self-hosted full stack (Next.js, NestJS, Supabase, Redis, Google Cloud) reducing infrastructure costs by ~90% with 99.9% uptime; introduced Agile/CPM improving release speed by ~40%; led R&D for an agentic AI recommendation engine using Neo4j and Google AI SDKs; designed payment handling with Stripe and Stripe Connect using a platform-fee distribution model.
Lead Engineer at The Coding Machine
March 1, 2022 - August 31, 2023
Managed a multi-project engineering portfolio across fintech, web3, and ed-tech clients balancing delivery, customer expectations, and budget; rescued the FansPredict crypto pre-tetting platform by building a recovery roadmap and driving a focused delivery push; architected and deployed blockchain indexer microservices on AWS Fargate for automatic scaling; implemented Redis caching to accelerate blockchain data reads and portfolio reporting performance.
Full Stack Engineer at APM Monaco
September 1, 2020 - September 30, 2021
Led digital transformation of a global e-commerce platform orchestrating migration from legacy Magento (PHP) to Shopify; developed reliable data synchronization microservices using Rust, Go, and Jitterbit to maintain consistency across systems; reduced deployment time by introducing GitLab CI/CD pipelines with Docker; built an AI-powered visual product search feature using Python Flask and TensorFlow to improve user discovery.
Tech Lead at Veridate Financial
April 1, 2019 - September 30, 2020
Designed multi-tenant AWS architecture validated by AWS Hong Kong for a complex greenfield international project; developed a one-click KYC portal deployment system that automatically configured and deployed client websites to custom domains for white-label customer delivery at scale; led a remote offshore frontend team to deliver the full production platform within eight months.
Lead Engineer at TGL Group
January 1, 2017 - April 30, 2019
Delivered Connecttal recruitment SaaS built with Laravel, Node.js, Elasticsearch, and AWS; delivered a Leave & HR system (Vue, MongoDB) and a travel portal (Angular); worked as an engineering lead on production deliverables supporting multiple product lines.
Associate Software Engineer at Effective Solution
October 1, 2016 - December 31, 2016
Delivered web analytics modules using Symfony, MongoDB, and Angular 1; automated client reporting for RSL Ceramics using PHP Symfony and MySQL; enhanced the MyDoctor admin UI to improve user experience.

Education

BEng (Hons) in Software Engineering at Sheffield Hallam University (UK)
January 1, 2013 - January 1, 2015
Diploma in Information Technology at Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology
January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2016

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Education, Professional Services, Retail, Computers & Electronics, Gaming