Building full-stack systems and the DevOps plumbing that keeps them honest — from Kubernetes clusters to AI-powered platforms.
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Software engineer at UCSC building full-stack systems and the DevOps plumbing that keeps them honest — from Kubernetes clusters to AI-powered platforms.
I’m a software engineer at the University of Colombo School of Computing. I work across the stack: backend services in Go, React frontends, container orchestration with Kubernetes, and cloud infra on AWS and GCP.
I’ve shipped production features as a full-stack intern at WSO2, built freelance Laravel apps from 2022–2024, and run a self-hosted homelab exposed to the public internet. I like building things that actually run and don’t fall over.
Currently researching DDoS-aware autoscaling in cloud environments and data exfiltration via TCP SYN packets. Previously: Organizing Committee VP at AIESEC Insight 2024. I hold the Director’s List Award for academic excellence in 2023 and 2024.
✦ Otherwise: homelab tinkering at odd hours, a half-finished research paper about TCP SYN packets, and coffee. Open to internships, weird collaborations, and projects that ship.
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cluster: Kubernetes proxy: Nginx + TLS termination observability: Grafana + Prometheus exposed: public internet
Volunteer management platform with an AI-powered event recommendation engine. Matches volunteers to opportunities using OpenAI embeddings + cosine similarity over Google Maps data. Real-time messaging between volunteers and organisers, plus AWS Rekognition for identity verification.
rec engine: cosine similarity embeddings: OpenAI verification: AWS Rekognition comms: real-time messaging
Comprehensive e-learning platform with AI-driven content generation. React/TypeScript frontend backed by a Ballerina microservices API covering user management, content delivery, exam management, and progress tracking. OpenAI for generation, MySQL for persistence, AWS SES for auth.
services: user, content, exam, progress auth: AWS SES content gen: OpenAI API: RESTful modular
Cloud-native recruitment platform that processed 12,000+ résumé PDFs using OpenAI. Deployed on Kubernetes via Terraform with a React/Laravel stack. AI-driven features connecting candidates, employers, and recruiters for career guidance and streamlined hiring at scale.
resumes processed: 12,000+ infra: Kubernetes via Terraform stack: React + Laravel features: AI matching, career guidance
Internship management system built on a custom MVC PHP framework written from scratch — routing, middleware, and ORM included. Established automated test coverage with Pest for unit tests and Selenium for end-to-end browser testing.
framework: built from scratch routing + ORM: custom unit tests: Pest E2E tests: Selenium
ship it, then observe it. I'd rather have a Grafana dashboard that tells me something broke than an architecture diagram that says it won't. I'd rather write the migration than the slide deck. The most satisfying work is code that runs in prod without anyone noticing.
# things I will fight you on:
frameworks exist to be replaced ·
a custom ORM teaches you more than using one ·
observability is not optional ·
Kubernetes is worth the pain.
Designed and shipped a full-stack feature for persistent storage attachment to cloud applications. Backend services in Go handling volume lifecycle management and deduplication. React/TypeScript marketplace UI for shared storage resources. Coordinated across 6 codebases and 3 teams.
GPA 3.66. Director’s List 2023 and 2024. Researching DDoS-aware autoscaling and TCP SYN data exfiltration. AIESEC Organizing Committee VP for Insight 2024.
Delivered Laravel-based CMS and web applications for multiple clients. Owned backend architecture, deployment, and ongoing maintenance. Improved client search visibility through SEO best practices and structured data markup.
First commit. A PHP script to scrape exam results. Lost the repo, kept the habit.
Pretraining a 350M-param policy model on a year of CloudTrail traces. Writing chapter 3 of Verifiable ML in Regulated Clouds (early 2027, manning). On-call primary this rotation; pager has been quiet — I’d like to keep it that way.