Experience

Momentum built through research, craft, and delivery.

A timeline of leadership, experiments, and consulting work that blends UX vision with embedded systems and production-grade engineering.

Full-Stack Product Engineer

Independent Studio

2023 – Present

Design-to-deployment ownership for premium digital products.

Leads discovery, UX, and engineering delivery for client and self-directed launches across commerce, productivity, and hardware-integrated experiences.

Highlights

  • Shipped MelodyMart, a Java/Tomcat commerce stack with structured MVC pipelines and responsive merchandising UI.
  • Built IoT Water Monitoring dashboards that integrate ESP32 telemetry with Firebase analytics for real-world households.
  • Created a reusable design system and motion guidelines adopted across three production web builds.
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Undergraduate Research & Mentoring

SLIIT Faculty of Computing

2022 – Present

Applied research in human-computer interaction, robotics, and IoT ecosystems.

Facilitates peer-led workshops while experimenting with intelligent interfaces that bridge software and embedded platforms.

Highlights

  • Captured 1st place at EMBED X Robotics Workshop 2025 with a BattleBot control stack and telemetry cockpit.
  • Delivered maker-lab sessions that introduced over 80 students to ESP32 firmware, realtime dashboards, and rapid prototyping.
  • Documented robotics tooling and shared open resources used in recurring campus labs.
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Freelance Developer & Consultant

Remote Clients

2021 – Present

Cross-platform software, automation, and data visualization engagements.

Delivers lightweight tooling and dashboards that improve operational visibility for startups and community teams.

Highlights

  • Rolled out Android and Flutter prototypes for campus services, spanning transit schedules, events, and notifications.
  • Built multilingual NLP assistants using Python pipelines tailored for Sinhala and English workflows.
  • Authored deployment playbooks covering CI/CD, observability, and long-term maintenance handoff.
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