cv

Bachelor

University of Kelaniya

BSc (Hons) in Computer Science

Diploma

ESOFT Metro Campus

Software Engineering

Senior AI Engineer

Gapstars, placed at Envision AI Labs (Leiden, Netherlands)

• Chose the retrieval embedding model on evidence: built a synthetic question–answer benchmark linked to source records and compared four leading models on recall, nDCG and MRR, with significance tests
• Building a ground-truth benchmark from client-provided documents to measure retrieval and answer quality on real data
• Designed the evaluation framework for RAG and agentic systems using LLM-as-a-judge metrics, claim-level faithfulness checks and expert-validated gold-standard datasets
• Built and benchmarked LLM-based insight-generation features on client-approved pharmaceutical and clinical data
• Contributed to the multi-agent architecture behind narrative trend generation: hybrid retrieval, guardrails, citation grounding and context management

Instructor, AI Engineering Bootcamp

StemLink

• Teach an applied LLM curriculum: transformers, prompting, agents (LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen), RAG (LlamaIndex, Pinecone) and LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning
• Supervise capstone builds through to working demos

Senior AI Engineer

Arcadea Group

• Automated structured data extraction from a US state police agency's records with an offline multi-agent system of 10+ planning, generation, execution and evaluation agents that write named-group regex patterns
• Made accuracy verifiable with a generate–test–revise loop scored against ground truth, delivering a validated, reusable regex instead of an ongoing model dependency
• Built a customer-care assistant grounded in company knowledge and historical phone calls, comparing traditional RAG with graph-based RAG and adding topic modelling and source traceability

Machine Learning Engineer

Surge Global

Full-time, then part-time contract

• Led AI delivery of an orchestrated multi-agent system for an insurance warranty-claims intermediary, giving service technicians a ready recommendation for each claim
• Researched connecting a real-time GPT-4o voice agent to multi-agent workflows for a founder relationship assistant

Associate Machine Learning Engineer

Surge Global

• First author of iSelf-Discover, showing unstructured reasoning plans beat structured JSON plans across BBH, T4D and MATH (up to 18.9% relative on MATH)
• Co-developed OpenBezoar, a low-cost recipe for small open instruction-following models (synthetic data, QLoRA SFT, DPO)
• Wrote nanoJAXGPT, a JAX/Equinox rewrite of nanoGPT, as a teaching resource

Data Science Intern

Surge Global

ICT Classroom Teacher

Steiner College

Judge

IEEE Young Professionals - Sri Lanka

Judge at Sri Lanka Artificial Intelligence Competition (SLAIC) 2024

Mentor

IEEE Young Professionals - Sri Lanka

Mentor for an AI Bootcamp final competition

Secretary and IT Assistant

International Vipassana Meditation Center

Secretary and IT Assistant to Chief Incumbent Thero, Ven. Udadumbara Kashyapa Thero

Member (pending)

IEEE P2834 Working Group

Standard for Secure and Trusted Learning Systems

Youth Delegate, Global Leadership Program

Headway Institute of Strategic Alliance, Brasenose College, University of Oxford

Partially funded fellowship on global policy dialogue and strategic innovation

Gold Medal for Best Performance in Computer Science

University of Kelaniya, 142nd General Convocation

Best Presenter

4th International Conference on Applied and Pure Sciences (ICAPS 2023), University of Kelaniya

Second Prize, IEEE SA P2834 Student Challenge

IEEE Standards Association

Valencia, Spain

Dean's List

Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya

Academic years 2017/18, 2019/20 and 2020/21

A Step Beyond the Hype: A Journey Through Modern AI

IEEE Student Branch, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka

Invited talk (online)

Implementing AI Agents

AI-Driven Sri Lanka

Invited workshop for university undergraduates (online)