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Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Innodata Inc. (Innodata Lanka)

Leading AI solution architecture and engineering for global publishing clients. Driving cloud-native transformation across the organization through DevOps, platform engineering, and architectures spanning serverless, Kubernetes, and traditional EC2.

• AI/ML Delivery: Designed and deployed multilingual, multi-region NLP solutions using LLMs with RAG and agentic workflows for major publishers.
• AI Research Data: Contributed to cutting-edge long-horizon computer-use agent dataset work (reinforcement learning gym) for a global frontier AI lab, part of a $40M realized revenue program.
• AI Research Data: Worked on long-horizon SWE-bench-style dataset projects for global AI and cloud technology leaders.
• AI/ML Delivery: Architected an AWS SaaS platform forecast to generate $1M+ annual revenue, with full HA/DR strategy.
• DevOps Transformation: Introduced CI/CD with zero-downtime deployments, SonarQube, and Infrastructure as Code across engineering teams.
• DevOps Transformation: Architected the company’s first Kubernetes-native application, combining K8s with GitOps (ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, Istio) for vendor-neutral scalability.
• Leadership: Mentored a multinational squad of engineers and drove AI adoption across the development lifecycle.

Software Engineer

20C / FullCtl

Developed full-stack network automation tools at open-source-first company specializing in network security. Built and maintained FullCtl peering management and network automation tools. Contributed to maintaining PeeringDB open source project. Led frontend development initially with legacy vanilla JS library and then later migration effort to Vue.js. Did backend work with Python and Django.

• Introduced the use of Vue.js instead of an in-house vanilla JS framework.
• Took over and maintained a project for an internet exchange standards organization when there was no experience within the company for the technology stack used.
• Open source contributions to PeeringDB.
• Overhaul of UI for FullCtl.
• Developed and helped deploy many documentation and client websites using fully automated CI/CD.

Software Engineer

Innodata Inc. (Innodata Lanka)

Was hired in some of the company’s first outsourcing software development projects. Initially in a data engineering/web scraping project and then assigned as the lead frontend engineer to develop a WYSIWYG custom XML editor for one of the largest standards organizations. This product has become a key part of the company’s product line.

• Developed and designed a custom WYSIWYG XML web editor with custom formats and plugins for a large standards organization.
• Developed and maintained web scraping and data-engineering scripts including OCR.
• POC for a serverless containerized web scraping solution using AWS Lambda and Docker.

Member (ExCo 2023–2024)

Toastmasters International

Served on the executive committee at IIT Toastmasters (2023–2024), helping members develop public speaking and leadership skills. Now an active member at Wattala Toastmasters, continuing to develop my own skills while mentoring others.

• Club won the Golden Gavel for the year.
• Club won the President’s Distinguished Club award for the year.

BEng

University of Westminster, (Delivered by Informatics Institute of Technology)

Software Engineering

• Artificial Intelligence & Data Science
• Concurrent Programming
• Data Structures & Algorithms
• Formal Methods
• Cyber Security

Linux Systems Administration and DevOps Engineering scholarship

WSO2

One of the 200 (out of 5000) applicants selected to participate in and complete a comprehensive course on modern cloud operations conducted by WSO2 including Kubernetes, Terraform, zero trust security, Linux administration, and CI/CD principles; one of the 130 people to complete the program successfully.

IIT Excellence Award

Informatics Institute of Technology

Awarded for outstanding performance and contribution to the university community.

Predicta 1.0 - Second Runner-up

IEEE - University of Peradeniya

AI hackathon organized by IEEE - University of Peradeniya. Team DataDragons.

Champion - Parallax 2022

Rotaract Club of Informatics Institute of Technology

Designathon and hackathon for web UI/UX and web development.

Haxmas 2022 - First Runner-up

Rotaract Club of Informatics Institute of Technology

Ideathon and hackathon sponsored and hosted by Ascentic, organized by Rotaract Club of IIT.

InfoSchol Scholarship - 2021 Jan

Informatics Institute of Technology

One of 70 recipients for the scholarship that covers the entire tuition fee for the BEng Software Engineering degree by working at selected companies.