Credentials & Experience
Senior Lead Engineer | Architecting Agentic AI and Scalable Systems | HealthTech
Professional Experience
Senior Lead Software Engineer @ ObvioHealth
July 2022 — Present • SingaporeDirecting the architecture and engineering execution of a multi-tenant Decentralized Clinical Trial (DCT) platform handling sensitive patient telemetry and distributed clinical workflows.
- Architect and scale distributed Node.js/TypeScript microservices and modular micro-frontends adhering strictly to GCP, HIPAA, and 21 CFR Part 11 regulatory standards.
- Lead a cross-functional squad of 6 senior engineers, institutionalizing RFC architectural reviews, automated contract testing, and domain-driven service boundaries.
- Pioneer agentic workflow automation and deterministic validation patterns to accelerate clinical trial protocol configuration and data intake.
Google Developer Expert (GDE) in Cloud @ Google Developers
October 2018 — January 2024 • Asia PacificAppointed by Google as an independent subject matter expert to mentor, educate, and advocate for cloud-native architectures across APAC.
- Delivered deep-dive technical keynotes, workshops, and architectural masterclasses on Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes container orchestration, and microservices patterns.
- Partnered with Google Developer Relations to validate pre-release developer tooling, providing direct engineering feedback into cloud product roadmaps.
- Mentored hundreds of software engineers, startups, and university students on distributed systems resilience, Docker containers, and cloud migration strategies.
Senior Software Engineer @ Lexagle
November 2020 — July 2022 • SingaporeLed frontend architecture and platform infrastructure for an enterprise contract lifecycle management (CLM) SaaS product.
- Engineered a federated micro-frontend framework in React and event-driven backend services supporting high-concurrency document orchestration.
- Designed and implemented a granular attribute-based access control (ABAC) engine using dynamic workflow state machines to secure sensitive contract operations.
- Spearheaded the enterprise design system with Storybook and automated visual testing, standardizing UI consistency across all squads.
- Authored Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code modules and automated GitLab CI/CD pipelines, drastically reducing release failure rates.
SRE Team Lead @ Sysco LABS Sri Lanka
January 2020 — November 2020 • Colombo, Sri LankaLed the Site Reliability and DevOps practice safeguarding 99.99% availability for Sysco Shop, the flagship multi-billion dollar enterprise foodservice commerce platform.
- Managed a dedicated team of 6 SREs, DevOps engineers, and support specialists overseeing production operations, infrastructure scaling, and 24/7 on-call rotations.
- Designed full-stack observability and anomaly detection pipelines across AWS infrastructure, reducing mean-time-to-detection (MTTD) by over 40%.
- Established automated zero-downtime deployment pipelines, blue/green rollout strategies, and codified incident-response runbooks.
Senior Software Engineer @ Sysco LABS Sri Lanka
December 2018 — December 2019 • Colombo, Sri LankaEngineered mission-critical commerce and ordering backend microservices operating under peak high-throughput transactional loads.
- Architected high-throughput asynchronous order-processing pipelines using Java/Spring and distributed message brokers, decoupling core checkout flows from downstream inventory services.
- Optimized database query performance, distributed caching, and connection pooling across high-volume relational and NoSQL data stores.
- Drove engineering excellence initiatives including test-driven development, code coverage gates, and peer architecture reviews.
Software Engineer @ Sysco LABS Sri Lanka
February 2017 — December 2018 • Colombo, Sri LankaBuilt core features, APIs, and automated test frameworks for Sysco’s next-generation digital customer ordering platform.
- Developed RESTful services and customer account management modules integrated with legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) backends.
- Built automated regression and end-to-end integration test suites, preventing regression leaks across bi-weekly continuous delivery cycles.
- Collaborated with international engineering and product teams across the US and Sri Lanka to establish unified interface contracts.
Software Engineer Intern @ 99x
August 2015 — February 2016 • Colombo, Sri LankaDeveloped open-source automated testing frameworks and serverless cloud prototypes.
- Contributed to CodeSpec, an open-source BDD test automation framework integrating C#, Selenium WebDriver, and Appium for mobile and web validation.
- Engineered early serverless prototypes with React, AWS Lambda, Cognito authentication, and DynamoDB.
Education
MSc in Computer Science (Focus on Artificial Intelligence)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Specializing in machine learning systems, autonomous agent architectures, and natural language processing.
BSc in Computer Science
University of Colombo School of Computing
Focused on algorithms, software architecture, distributed systems, and graph theory.
Certifications
Chief AI Officer Program
Cornell University• Issued Sep 2026Applied Agentic AI for Organizational Transformation
MIT Professional Education• Issued Mar 2026Artificial Intelligence: Principles & Techniques (XCS221)
Stanford Online• Issued Jun 2026Certified Generative AI Professional - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025
Oracle• Issued Jul 2025Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
The Linux Foundation• Jan 2026 — Jan 2028Google Data-Driven Decision Making
Google• Issued Jan 2026Google People Management Essentials
Google• Issued Jan 2026Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
NIDA Clinical Trials Network• Clinical Trials Certification
Research & Publications
Open Source & Global Programs
Google Summer of Code (GSoC)
- 2014 — Sahana Software Foundation (GIS module for disaster planning)
- 2015 — Apache Software Foundation (CLI tool for Apache Stratos)
- 2016 — SCoRe Lab (Open-source research projects)
Google Code-in (GCI)
- Mentor (2014, 2015, 2016)
- Organization Administrator (2018)
Community & Leadership
GDG Sri Lanka
Organizer
IEEE Student Branch, UCSC
President
IEEE Sri Lanka
Webmaster
UCSC ISACA Student Group
Vice President
Catholic Students' Movement, University of Colombo
Vice President
Honors & Awards
NBQSA 2014
Gold Award — Business Category (Tertiary)
SLIIT Codefest 2013
Silver Medal
CMBHack.js Hackathon 2014
Runners Up
IEEE R10 Website Contest 2014
2nd Place
TNL Hack'N'Roll Hackathon
2nd Place