The experience behind the advisory work.
Senior Software Engineer at IFS specializing in platform infrastructure, monitoring, and AI-enabled systems. Active researcher, guest lecturer, and speaker - focused on scalable, reliable, and ethically aligned systems. This page is the verified track record behind my technology strategy advisory practice.
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Senior engineering leadership on platform infrastructure, monitoring, CI/CD, and IFS.AI initiatives - where reliability, architecture, and production AI meet enterprise reality.
Building ventures from strategy to market
Founder and director roles across technology consulting and consumer platforms - bringing capital allocation, product judgment, and operational accountability to advisory work.
Computational neuroscience & applied AI
Active research on cognition, decision support, emotion intelligence, and enterprise AI systems - grounding strategy in evidence, not trends.
Teaching, supervision & examination
University lecturing and postgraduate supervision - connecting structured analysis with industry practice for the next generation of technologists.
Industry experience
Enterprise platform engineering, MLOps, and product delivery at global software companies - the operational backbone for advising on AI, architecture, and scalable systems.
Global IFS Monitoring Platform – Internal R&D Enablement
Created training videos, documentation, and deep-technical enablement for 600+ global IFS R&D engineers on the IFS Monitoring & Logging Platform - covering distributed logging, alerting architecture, Kubernetes observability, and production diagnostics.
Pre-Sales Enablement on IFS Monitoring Architecture
Non-technical pre-sales enablement on IFS Monitoring architecture - translating complex platform design into decision-ready narratives for customer-facing teams.
Global Interviews & Public Speaking
Global interview and internal public speaking engagements for IFS R&D and platform teams - representing platform infrastructure expertise at organizational scale.
Senior Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure
- Created training videos and delivered deep-technical enablement to 600+ global IFS R&D engineers on the Monitoring & Logging Platform - distributed logging, alerting architecture, Kubernetes observability, and production diagnostics.
- Member of the IFS.AI research guild, contributing experience and ideas to enterprise AI initiatives.
- Re-designed and maintained the IFS Monitoring product repository structure, codebase organization, and pipeline architecture for on-prem and cloud deployments - standardizing CI/CD, test automation, deployment workflows, and internal technical practice policies.
- Contributed to core MLOps architecture: monitoring, CI/CD, and safety validation for ML services.
- Contributed to platform architecture initiatives including model inheritance, time zone support, EBR, backward compatibility, and near-zero-downtime upgrades.
- Delivered technical workshops on platform deployment and monitoring for R&D new joiners.
- Conducted engineering interviews and fostered team growth through mentorship and collaborative problem-solving.
Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure
- Built end-to-end automation with Site Reliability Engineering teams, reducing SRE on-call alerts by 50% through monitoring and alerting automation for the IFS platform.
- Created training materials, instructional videos, and documentation for internal teams and external customers - improving product adoption and user satisfaction.
- Managed on-prem and cloud environments, maintaining 99% uptime for critical systems.
Associate Software Engineer
- Worked on zFactory - an integrated digital ecosystem for apparel manufacturing with real-time data capture, insights, and visualization.
- Developed platform provisioning automation for client-wise product configuration, reducing development time by 80%.
Software Engineer Intern
- Developed a Java REST API with Elasticsearch and MongoDB microservices for real-time data access across 100+ devices.
- Built hybrid mobile applications for real-time data capture, used by 1,000+ users collecting 1M+ data points per day.
Speaking, teaching & verified impact
Guest lectures, workshops, and academic service - evidence that I can translate complex technical systems into clear guidance for engineers, students, and leadership audiences.
Guest lecture
Data Structures & Algorithms
Special guest lecture to 300+ undergraduate students on Data Structures & Algorithms - delivered in English through hybrid format. Session covered foundational structures, advanced algorithms, and performance optimization for real-world software problems.
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Guest lecture
Data Structures & Algorithms
Guest lecture to 150+ IIT students on core Data Structures and algorithmic problem-solving - bridging enterprise engineering practice with academic foundations.
Workshop
Understanding Competitive Programming
Official speaker for CODERALLY 6.0 Workshop 01 - competitive programming fundamentals for the next generation of software engineers.
Academic service
Inter-University Hackathon Judge
Invited judge for an inter-university hackathon - evaluating projects from state and private universities. Partner institutions included University of Plymouth and Victoria University Melbourne.
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Ventures & leadership
Founder and director roles that bring operator judgment to strategy - from B2B technology consulting to consumer platform innovation.
nZO Innovations
Nov 2020 – PresentFounder & Director
Technology consulting & solution advisory
Helping startups, SMEs, and enterprises transform ideas into scalable digital platforms through consulting, architecture, AI, and technology strategy.
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May 2026 – PresentCo-Founder & Director
Your passport to live entertainment
A platform granting access to concerts, drama, nightlife, restaurants, dating, and curated experiences - applying product and technology strategy to consumer markets.
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Computational neuroscience and applied AI research - informing decision support, human-AI systems, enterprise intelligence, and evidence-based technology strategy.
Researcher
- Towards Tiny Transformers (ongoing research).
Research Supervisor
- Supervising research at IIT for undergraduate and master's students.
Independent Research
- Started research to explore applied AI, enterprise intelligence, human-AI systems, and evidence-based decision support.
Research topics
Supervision at IIT and personal research explorations across the following directions.
- CCTV-Based Enhanced Public Security Management System for Sri Lanka
- Enhancing MRI Image Segmentation Through Quantization and AI-Powered Algorithms for Clinical Efficiency
- Towards Neuro-Inspired Enterprise Intelligence: Computational Models of Human Cognition for Next-Generation Decision Support Systems
- Towards Reliable and Context-Aware Emotion Intelligence for Sinhala Customer Support Conversations
- Intelligent Decision Support for Fair and Adaptive Revenue Allocation in Collaborative Travel Booking Platforms
- An Intelligent Framework for Client-Specific Business Rule Validation in ERP Master Data Migration
- Towards Secure and Adaptive Knowledge Evolution for Retrieval-Augmented Generation over Continuously Evolving Enterprise Knowledge
Academic work
Teaching, supervision, and examination - maintaining academic rigor alongside industry and research practice.
Visiting Lecturer, Research Supervisor & Viva Panel Examiner
- Undergraduate and master's student supervision, examination, and research guidance.
- Guest lectures on Data Structures & Algorithms and competitive programming for 150+ students.