Experience

Education

Sep 2024 – May 2026

MSc by Research

Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

Thesis: Energy-efficient cloud task scheduling using deep learning

Supervisor: Dulani Meedeniya

Sep 2017 – Jul 2022

BSc Engineering (Hons), Computer Science & Engineering

Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

First Class Honours, GPA 4.08 / 4.20. Dean's List in all eight semesters.

Selected coursework: Compiler Design, Programming Languages, Theory of Computing, Concurrent Programming, Advanced Algorithms (all A+); Operating Systems, Distributed Systems (A).

Final-year project: CH-Bin, a convex-hull based method for binning metagenomic contigs (published 2022).

Research collaboration

May – Sep 2022

Eco-driving project, Wu Lab, MIT (remote)

With Vindula Jayawardana

Built CARLA-based 3D visualisations from SUMO traffic simulations for the lab's eco-driving research.
Acknowledged in “Mitigating Metropolitan Carbon Emissions with Dynamic Eco-driving at Scale”, Transportation Research Part C, 2025, which was covered by MIT News.

Teaching

2022, 2024 – 2026

Visiting Instructor

Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa

Ran practical sessions for undergraduate modules in the BSc Engineering programme:

CS2023 Data Structures and Algorithms 2022
CS3203 Software Engineering Project 2024, 2025
CS3023 Software Engineering 2025
CS4272 Quality Engineering 2025
CS4243 Human–Computer Interaction 2026
CS3940 Professional Portfolio 2026

Engineering and leadership

May 2022 – present

Co-founder, Director & CTO

iXD Labs (Pvt) Ltd · Sri Lanka

iXD Labs builds web and mobile software for clients in Sri Lanka, Australia and the US: ERPs, management systems and business automation tools.

Design the architecture and plan development of client software solutions.
Oversee the company's technical work and supervise a team of software engineers.
Lead and build backend and mobile systems, e.g. a fitness-reward mobile platform (Spring Boot, Keycloak, PostgreSQL, Flutter), an SAP B1-integrated pre-costing system (.NET Core, React) and a serverless AWS mobile backend (Cognito, Lambda, API Gateway).

Earlier: Co-founder & part-time Software Engineer, Apr 2021 – May 2022.

Oct 2020 – Apr 2021

Software Engineer Intern, Ballerina compiler

WSO2 · Sri Lanka · Supervisor: Sameera Jayasoma

As primary developer, designed and built Ballerina Shell, a read-eval-print loop for the Ballerina language, now shipped with the official Ballerina compiler (my project notes).
Triaged and fixed bugs for the compiler frontend team (Java).

Honours, awards and membership

2018, 2019IEEEXtreme 12.0 and 13.0: top 100 worldwide among 4,000+ teams; 3rd in Sri Lanka both years
2019Google Hash Code: 1st among Sri Lankan teams, 260th worldwide
2019, 2020Winners, UOJ Coders v1.0 (200+ teams) and ACES Coders v8.0 (300+ teams)
2020Huawei Seeds for the Future: one of 16 students selected from all Sri Lankan universities
membershipAssociate Member, Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka (AMIESL)

Earlier: Mahapola Higher Education Merit Scholarship (2018); winners, IESL RoboGames 2018 and HackX 2019; Gold Medal, 14th Young Computer Scientist Competition (2015).